Nollaig na mBan: Celebrating Maeve Brennan in Words & Music

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Nollaig na mBan: Celebrating Maeve Brennan in Words & Music with Emilie Conway Trio & Grainne Blair at the United Arts Club

" Star of the show is Conway's voice" - Hot Press

"Well beyond the average jazz vocalist's fare" - the Irish Times

"Splendid" - the Sunday Independent

Come celebrate Maeve Brennan's life & work in words & music.

Maeve Brennan, was born on Nollaig na mBan, January 6, 1917. The Ranelagh-born writer, known as the Long Winded Lady, was a trail blazer as a much-admired social diarist with the New Yorker during the 1950s and 1960s. Conway has woven together extracts from Brennan’s writing with an eclectic musical selection that charts Brennan’s progress from daughter of Irish revolutionaries (her parents were both active in the 1916 Rising) to doyen of New York’s high society to respected short story writer to abject destitution in later life.

Especially for Nollaig na mBan, venerable feminist historian, activist and UAC member, Grainne Blair, will give an introduction and performed readings.

Conway has presented this imaginative show to great acclaim and full houses in Chicago, New York, the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Dunamaise Arts Centre and most recently for Ranelagh Arts Centre.

Don't miss this fresh and unusual piece of literary chamber music.