BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//172.67.138.41//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.wmse.org X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-159844@www.wmse.org DTSTAMP:20240328T151406Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:WMSE Sponsored &\; Partner Events CONTACT:ICHC\; https://irishculturalandheritagecenter.ticketspice.com/rory- makem-2021 DESCRIPTION:
A seasoned performer with over 29 years on the road\, Rory has toured extens ively with The Makem and Spain Brothers and for 17 years played guitar wit h his father\, Tommy Makem. He has played sold-out venues\, festivals\, an d theaters throughout the United States\, Canada\, England\, Scotland and Ireland. At his best on stage\, Rory captivates his audiences with charism a\, passion for the songs\, poetry\, history\, humor and skilled musicians hip.
\nThe love of song runs deep in the family. Continuing a legacy handed down from his Grandmother\, the legendary source singer Sarah Make m\, Rory pulls the songs of the worker\, the sailor\, the lovers\, the fig hters and the land from the pages of history and breathes life into them. An adept interpreter of folk songs\, he masterfully accompanies himself on guitar\, banjo\, mandolin or bouzouki.
\nNot limiting himself to th
e stage\, Rory has played on movie soundtracks including A Fool and His Mo
ney\, and The Lightkeeper. His compositions can be heard as the backdrop f
or PBS series as diverse as Tommy Tang’s Modern Thai Cuisine to It’s an Ag
e Thing\, to Simply Painting.
\nLearning from those that came before
you is the essence of folk music and Rory has had the great honor to learn
from the best. Of course there were the many years at his father’s side…
absorbing the master at his craft. He has also recorded with some luminari
es of modern folk music\; Tom Paxton\, Noel Paul Stookey\, Bill Staines\,
Eric Weissberg\, Roger McGuinn\, Dave Mallett\, Gordon Bok\, Jonathan Edwa
rds\, Rick and Ron Shaw\, and Schooner Fare.
Through more than a q uarter century of plying his craft\, Rory has established himself as one o f the leading forces in the song tradition of Irish music… and so… the tra dition continues.
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