Mick Maloney
Before there was Riverdance, there was the Famous McNulty family. The “Royal Family of Irish entertainment” played the Brooklyn Academy of Music 55 times between 1930 and 1960.
Long before there was Lord of the Dance, there was Green Fields of America. Banjoist and singer Mick Moloney put the trans-Atlantic group together for a Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife in 1978.
That festival introduced Chicago-born dancer Michael Flatley to a wider world; over the years, Green Fields has included Seamus Egan,...
Before there was Riverdance, there was the Famous McNulty family. The “Royal Family of Irish entertainment” played the Brooklyn Academy of Music 55 times between 1930 and 1960.
Long before there was Lord of the Dance, there was Green Fields of America. Banjoist and singer Mick Moloney put the trans-Atlantic group together for a Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife in 1978.
That festival introduced Chicago-born dancer Michael Flatley to a wider world; over the years, Green Fields has included Seamus Egan,...
- 3/11/2011
- by Gwen Orel
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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