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Music Reviews 4.12.06

MADRIGALIA Music from the Emerald Isle MAD 00 Like a shot of Baileyโ€™s, Irish folk songs can be cloying. In Music from the Emerald Isle, Rochester chamber choir Madrigalia serves them up sweetly, but not sickeningly so. If youโ€™re used to the Cambridge Singersโ€™ recordings of part songs by Charles Villiers Stanford, you may appreciate […]

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Cash died of a broken heart

by Frank De Blase A world where no Republican is safe: anywhere New York City’s Ed Hamell is performing. Hamell’s Thursday, September 11, show at Milestones was edgy and engaging. His lyrics and between-song banter were hysterical — not just with their occasional absurdity but with barefaced insight and honesty. Sure, Hamell plays acoustic, but […]

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Cold weather, warm women

Spring at last, spring at last, thank God almighty, it’s spring at last. I’m gonna kiss spring on the mouth. And, being the subversive romantic that I am, you can tell “W” it’ll be a French kiss, too — with French-fry breath.             Flogging Molly flogged Molly and the whole damn sold-out crowd at Water […]

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