{"id":1285,"date":"2010-06-14T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2010-06-14T12:47:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T17:47:37","slug":"franco-american-and-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/franco-american-and-irish\/","title":{"rendered":"Franco-American and Irish Tunes in Lowell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1284\" title=\"John Whelan, Flynn Cohen, Max Cohen, Molly Hebert-Wilson, and Donna Hebert\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/johnwhelanmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Whelan <\/a>and  <a href=\"http:\/\/fiddlingdemystified.com\" target=\"_blank\">Donna <\/a><\/strong><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/fiddlingdemystified.com\" target=\"_blank\">H\u00e9bert<\/a>: The Irish-French Connection<\/strong><\/em> will perform Wednesday, June 23 at Immaculate Conception School Hall, as part of Lowell&#8217;s Franco-American week. The free concert is sponsored by  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/lowe\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Lowell National Historical Park<\/a> and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massculturalcouncil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts Cultural Council<\/a> as a way of honoring Lowell&#8217;s Franco-American and Irish American cultural heritage. Come experience award-winning French-Canadian fiddling, legendary Irish button accordion, brilliant flatpick and fingerstyle guitarists, and powerful songs in Gaelic, English &amp; French.<\/p>\n<p>Icons in their Irish- and Franco-American musical communities, John and Donna spark the Irish-French connection to life onstage! Each\u00a0brings 40 years of performing and recording experience to this new group. In their stage and educational programs, repertoires and traditions stand distinct and separate and then find themselves blending and reinventing into something new, as did the Irish and French-Canadian immigrant communities in the northeast where both groups migrated in the 1880s to work in the textile mills.<\/p>\n<p>This <em>free<\/em> concert will take place following the ham and bean supper in the school hall of Immaculate Conception School, 218 E. Merrimac Street, Lowell, MA. Concert at 7:30 p.m. All welcome. Free parking behind school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whelan and Donna H\u00e9bert: The Irish-French Connection will perform Wednesday, June 23 at Immaculate Conception School Hall, as part of Lowell&#8217;s Franco-American week. The free concert is sponsored by Lowell National Historical Park and Massachusetts Cultural Council as a way of honoring Lowell&#8217;s Franco-American and Irish American cultural heritage. 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