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Storytellers Danaher and MacCloud To Weave Tales in Cultural Building

July 12, 2008

Well-known storytellers Danaher and MacCloud will be delighting Great American Irish Festival audiences with genuine stories of Irish country life, Sligo fiddle tunes, and exceptional vocal harmonies, when they take to the Irish Cultural Building stage on Sat., July 26 and Sunday, July 27. Saturday's performance will begin at 4:00 p.m., while the Sunday show will start at noon.
Carrying on the legacy of Abbey Theater actor and storyteller Eamon Kelly, Kate Danaher and Amy MacCloud help the audience see life the way the Irish do (with a wink and a smile).
Kate Danaher is a Sligo-style fiddler and Irish storyteller, as well as a professional screenwriter and actor whose theater credits include the Delaware Shakespeare Festival, the Delaware Theater Company's Young Playwright's Festival, the Irish Repertory Theater of Philadelphia, the First State Children's Theater, and the Times Square Arts Center. Kate, who studied with the great Sligo fiddler, John Vesey, has been a song and fiddle competitor in All-Ireland Championships. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature, with a specialty in Irish drama, and was Chair and Assistant Professor of English at Rosemont College. She is on the Board of the Delaware Shakespeare Festival
Amy Cloud, a multi-instrumentalist and composer, has performed in country, folk, rock, and dance bands. An alumna of the Boston School of Contemporary Music, she is now Music Director of the Delaware Shakespeare Festival and has both performed and composed music for four productions. Amy is also the lead vocalist in the jazz ensemble, Cloud 9, currently recording its second CD of original music.
Kate and Amy began their musical and theatrical partnership as the founders of the children's entertainment troupe, Fiddlin' and Foolin'. They are currently writing a two-woman show, About the Murphys, which will feature Kate's stories and traditional tunes, as well as Amy's original compositions.