Re: DeDanaan's Andy Statman cover?

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GAronoff (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> De Dannan has irish covers of Klezmer tunes on Ballroom and on 1/2 Set in
> Harlem.  I don't have my notes here with me, but I don't think Andy played on
> those albums.  I will check later at home.  Also, I quite enjoyed the
> Statman/DeDannan show at Berklee.

Me, too.  I didn't mean to imply it was in any way a "bad" show.  Yiddish in the
mouth of the Irish singer, was, however, quite a stretch...And she did mangle
it; that's a fact.
Perhaps with more rehearsal time and coaching she could have done as good a job
as Patinkin.

> Maybe my lack of knowlege of Yiddish
> helped with the song, however.

> Sure, it did.  That's what these people are counting on;  that "no one" out
> there can understand it anyway.

Wolf

> Anyone interested in Irish-Jewish musical links might enjoy a feature I wrote
> that was published by the web-zine Jewishfamily.com.  I think the URL is:
> http://www.jewishfamily.com/scripts/newjfl/paper/article.asp?ArticleID=1960
>
> Gideon
>



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