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Announcing the Mystic Irish Parade Film Festival!

Mystic Irish Parade Film Festival Schedule of Events

at Mystic Independent Theater March 20-28, 2010

Mystic Independent Theater will host the 2010 Mystic Irish Parade Film Festival March 20-28. Featuring two new films about Liam Clancy and a special evening of family songs & stories with Aoife Clancy, to pay tribute to his recent passing in December 2009.

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The Mystic Irish Parade adds an Irish Film Festival to its schedule of events!

Mystic Independent Theater will host the 2010 Mystic Irish Parade Film Festival March 20 - March 28.

Our festival will honor the life and work of Liam Clancy, and pay tribute to his recent passing on December 4, 2009.

We are featuring two new films about Liam Clancy, and an hosting an evening of Family Songs & Stories with Aoife Clancy.

The first film, The Yellow Bittern, The Life and Times of Liam Clancy is a revealing portrait of Liam Clancy of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, and the man that Bob Dylan called “just the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my whole life.” This film charts the remarkable rise to fame of these devil-may-care Irish singers, from their small-town beginnings in County Tipperary in Ireland to the folk hey-day of Greenwich Village in the Sixties where they absorbed black musical influences, played for JFK and out-sold the Beatles.

Our second film is Liam Clancy & Friends, Live at the Bitter End. Liam Clancy is joined by Odetta, Tom Paxton, Shane MacGowan, Eric Bibb, Fionn Regan and Gemma Hayes, specially staged and filmed at the legendary Bitter End over fifty years after made their first recordings during the New York folk revival.

We will also host a special evening of “Family Songs & Stories” with Liam’s niece Aoife Clancy on March 27. Aoife (pronounced “Eefa”) brings a refreshing new voice to folk music, one that ranges from traditional Irish songs to ballads and contemporary folk.

Aoife Clancy comes from a small town called Carrick-on-Suir in Co Tipperary Ireland. She is the daughter of Bobby Clancy of the Clancy Brothers and grew up in a family steeped in music. Her performance will include family songs along with stories of her upbringing in Carrick-on-Suir and Ring Co Waterford where her mother is from and also where her uncle Liam Clancy resided.

Film tickets are $10. Tickets to Aoife Clancy’s Family Stories & Songs are $20. Tickets are available from Mystic Independent Theater and Puritan & Genesta in Mystic and online at www.mysticindietheater.com.

Sponsored by the Mystic Irish Parade Foundation. Please visit www.mysticirishparade.org for the Mystic Irish Parade Foundation’s complete schedule of events.

Mystic Independent Theater will also be in the parade on Sunday March 21st. See you there!

Mystic Independent Theater
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www.mysticindietheater.com
casey@mysticindietheater.com
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