A Tribute to the Famous McNultys
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space |
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Irish Arts Center presents A Tribute to the Famous McNultys: The First Family of Irish Music, a concert featuring Mick Moloney with Julie Feeney, Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, The Green Fields of America (Mick Moloney, Athena Tergis, Billy McComiskey, Brendan Dolan and Jerry O'Sullivan), Courtney Grogan, Dermot Henry, Dana Lyn and her String Quartet, The Niall O'Leary School of Irish Dance, Mary O'Dowd, Jerry Timlin, and The Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra.
The McNulty family, Ma, her daughter Eileen and her son Peter, were the most extraordinarily successful and beloved Irish entertainers in America between 1930 and 1960. Now, close to the 50th anniversary of their last performance in their beloved New York City, folklorist and musician Mick Moloney returns to Symphony Space to lead a tribute to this peerless trio - the last of the great vaudevillians in America.
Their combination of exuberant traditional Irish and Irish American song with tap, clog and Irish step dance set them apart from all entertainers of their era. The Famous McNultys filled the Brooklyn Academy of Music with their Irish Showboat Revue twice a year for close to twenty years and were familiar and beloved figures in Rockaway, Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, the Catskills and Boston, recording over 150 records for Decca, Copley and Standard Colonial. The concert will be a celebration of their magnificent, joyful artistry and will feature a program of music, song and dance against a stunning backdrop of projected visual images from the life and times of this remarkable family.
In association with American Irish Historical Society, Archives of Irish American/Tamiment Library-New York University, Glucksman Ireland House-New York University, The Irish Repertory Theatre
All photos: McNulty Family Collection (AIA051), Archives of Irish America, NYU.
This program is supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
