PADDY's Cast - Paddy Noonan
Brian Hunter, Irish Tenor, has classical roots. While specializing in the beautiful Irish Tenor repertoire, Brian Hunter has been thrilling classical concert and operatic audiences all over the world with his beautiful tone and expression. His roots include serious religious choral work with the Welch Chorale of St. Phillip Neri's in the Bronx, where he made his living as a cantor singing weddings, funerals and liturgies while earning his bachelors and masters in violin at Lehman College. Another decade of bel canto voice training with the primary student of Bernardo De Muro (an Italian tenor and contemporary of Caruso) who happened to be intimately familiar with the "John McCormack" repertoire - her husband was a serious amateur Irish tenor. Since his sold-out Carnegie Recital Hall debut (he was named Catholic New Yorker of the week by then Cardinal O'Connor and tickets immediately disappeared), he has divided his time between Irish and classical audiences. Although one of his great loves is introducing the enormous and wondrous Irish repertoire to audiences that have never heard more than "Danny Boy", it is always a joy to perform this great music for the audiences that know it like the back of their hand. His numerous performances include his critically-acclaimed Lincoln Center appearance with Cherish the Ladies and his appearance as the Irish Tenor on NBC's coverage of the 2002 St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Half Irish, half Scottish and 100% hilarious, Glasgow’s Eddie Devine has emerged as one of the funniest men on the comedy scene today. Although he’s no secret to Scottish-American fans, Eddie burst onto the Irish-American scene as a featured performer on Paddy Noonan’s 1999 “Musical Taste of Ireland Tour.” The response to his original brand of side-splitting clean humor was overwhelming. Eddie’s debut recording “The Devine Comedy,” was recorded on location during the 1999 tour. Find out why Eddie Devine is the preferred comedian of audiences everywhere he goes!
Irish American balladeer, Mary O’Dowd is a native New Yorker and proud of her Irish heritage. Her mother was born and raised in Roscommon and her father in Sligo. She maintains her strong Irish ties with her many cousins and friends who reside in Ireland and who always enjoy an Irish-American welcome in her New York home. Mary was a guest singer with Paddy Noonan, Jesse Owens and other "stars" of the famous John Barleycorn. She teamed up with Arnold Elder, who had just arrived from Co. Antrim and very shortly they started earning a fine reputation around the New York metropolitan area. Their contributions to the LP “An Irish Party at the John Barleycorn” helped make it a top seller. Mary launched her career as a single performer at the Irish Pavilion in Manhattan. A two week engagement was extended to five years during which time she released her first solo album "Portrait of Mary O'Dowd". The album was a wonderful success. Over the years, Mary was guest artist on several television shows in Canada and the U.S. with Tommy Makem, The Clancy Brothers, The Irish Rover’s, and Ryan’s Fancy. She also performed in Carnegie Hall, the New Jersey Garden Arts Center, New York’s Town Hall, Westbury Music Fair and Joseph Papp’s Public Theater. She released another wonderful CD entitled “Close of an Irish Day” that featured the hit song “When New York Was Irish”. The album received rave reviews and sold extraordinarily well. Mary has a quality that actively appeals to everyone, whether she is singing a popular song or a sentimental Irish ballad, that winning way is in her voice, the lilt which is distinctively her own. She has something show-business people call projection, a prized ability to reach out past the stage, past the loudspeaker, and touch the emotion of an audience. Don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy Mary’s warmth, charm and talent.
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