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Musician/composer Andrew Bird: One of the best Celtic and American musicians around
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Andrew Bird
Last summer, when we were leaving England in just two days' time (weeping, sniveling, sighing, whining), I saw a huge sign for a concert by Hayley Westenra (who appeared in this column last fall, singing Shenandoah)…three weeks later. Sigh.
But today, I had another amazing Celtic music discovery: I found Andrew Bird. I had first found Joseph Daniel Sobol…
OK, here’s the back story, before you listen to Bird…
I did the media manager job for the State Theatre of Virginia about a dozen years ago. The artistic director, Rick Rose, booked a troupe called Kiltartan Road that performed a play by Joseph Sobol, In the Deep Heart’s Core. When he was in graduate school, on a trip from his native Chicago to Ireland, Sobol had fallen in love with Celtic music, and with William Butler Yeats, whose poetry and biography formed the skeleton and meat of the play. Andrew Bird was a performer in that production.
Now, Andrew Bird has taken flight, you should excuse the pun, and today, I saw one of his CDs featured in Starbucks. Small world.
Not bad, after finding Sobol, directing a graduate program at East Tennessee State University a few days ago. The leprechauns are smiling upon me! I shall have to leave them a little gift tonight.
You can check out Bird’s performance schedule. Much of it is in the UK. But--hurray!--he’s performing in Columbia, MD, at the Merriwether Post Pavilion on June 8. Catching his fine music would mean a pleasant day trip, or in this case evening trip, from DC. Although if you do have some UK and EU traveling planned, it might be fun to catch him in a venue over there.
You can check out his music below.
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