Aidan Quinn, Frank McCourt, Alan Parker, The Saw Doctors and Other Irish Celebrities To Participate in Series of All-Irish Chats.Business &Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2000 ArtShapes.com Ireland Announces Its Four Weeks to St. Patrick's St. Patrick's or Saint Patrick's may refer to:
St Patrick's Day is a month away, but it's already starting at ArtShapes.com Ireland, the premier site for Irish arts, crafts and culture. To whet the world's interest for all things Irish, ArtShapes.com is producing Four Weeks to St. Patrick's Day, a series of online chats with well-known and emerging actors, authors and musicians from Contemporary Irish culture including &uot;Angela's Ashes&uot; author Frank McCourt
Francis "Frank" McCourt (born August 19, 1930) is an Irish-American teacher and author. , one of the Emerald Isle's favorite sons, actor Aidan Quinn Aidan Quinn (Irish: Aodhán Ó Cuinn) (born March 81959 in Rockford, Illinois,) is an Irish American actor also known as the Quinnster. Aidan Quinn was born in Rockford, Illinois. , acclaimed director Alan Parker and members of the Celtic rock Celtic rock is a genre of folk rock which incorporates Celtic music, instrumentation and themes. History Celtic rock developed out of the (originally English) electric folk scene. band The Saw Doctors. &uot;We are extremely proud to offer America this extraordinary opportunity to interact directly with many of Ireland's leading and emerging artists and artisans&uot;, says Gerard Power, founder of ArtShapes.com. &uot;This event supports our mission to be the online ambassador of Irish culture for consumers around the world.&uot; Beginning today, Thursday February 17th through St. Patrick's Day, Friday, March 17-- a day that will feature a major surprise guest -- there will be two one-hour online chats a week featuring Irish celebrities who will field questions from the audience. The chats take place every Tuesday and Thursday, beginning at 9:00 pm Eastern Standard Time and are hosted in the Yahoo! chat arena. The chat schedule and featured guest list are updated daily. Visit ArtShapes.com (www.artshapes.com) for details. The current schedule includes: - Jack Lukeman, February 17th, 9pm (EST) - the Irish &uot;Frank Sinatra&uot; is a musician whose new live album Metropolis Blue is a best seller in Ireland and who is tipped by Hot Press to be Ireland's next musical superstar - Colum McCann, February 22nd, 9pm (EST) - is the author of &uot;This Side of Brightness&uot; (a NY Times and LA Times Best Book), &uot;Songdogs&uot; and &uot;Fishing the Sloe-Black River&uot; - Aidan Quinn, February 24th, 9pm (EST) - starred in and produced &uot;This is My Father&uot;. His new movie &uot;Songcatcher&uot;won best ensemble acting award at the Sundance Film Festival . He recently played Paul McCarthy in VH1's &uot;The Two of US&uot; - Frank McCourt, February 29th, 9pm (EST) is the Pulitzer prize winning author of Angela's Ashes (now a major motion picture) and follow up memoir, 'Tis. - Emer Martin, March 2nd, 9pm (EST)- is the author of &uot;Breakfast in Babylon&uot; (Book of the Year 1996 in Ireland) and &uot;More Bread or I'll Appear&uot; (winner of the Audre Lorde Prize, Miriam Weinberg Richter Award and The Mary M. Fay Poetry Award) - The Saw Doctors, March 7th, 9pm (EST) - are a Celtic rock band whose performances have been acclaimed by USA Today for their ability to &uot;cut to the heart and soul of Irish music&uot;. Upcoming chats will feature director Alan Parker, Booker Prize Booker Prize, an annual prize of £50,000 (originally £20,000) for a work of fiction by a living British, Irish, or Commonwealth writer. Great Britain's premier literary award, it has been underwritten since 1969 by the British food-distribution company nominee Colm Toibin, musician Gavin Friday, actor/director Jimmy Smallhorne and, many others (yet to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. ). &uot;We ran a live dress rehearsal dress rehearsal n. A full, uninterrupted rehearsal of a play with costumes and stage properties. dress rehearsal Noun 1. last Tuesday Last Tuesday is a Christian melodic punk rock band hailing from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They played their final show on March 10th, 2007. Last Tuesday was formed in 1999 in Harrisburg, P.A. (the 15th) with Patrick McCabe Patrick McCabe may refer to:
About ArtShapes.com ArtShapes.com uses the tools of globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation to celebrate ethnic diversity. Ireland has always been known for its great literary art - Joyce, Yeats, Beckett, Wilde - but little attention has been paid to its other great artistic traditions. Now the Internet enables Irish artists to communicate with individuals living anywhere in the World. ArtShapes.com Ireland has a two-fold mission: 1) to create an entertaining communication forum for consumers interested in Irish arts to interact with Irish artists -- be they authors, poets, actors, playwrights, craftspeople crafts·people pl.n. People who practice a craft; artisans. , movie directors or visual artists, and 2) to offer only the finest selection of Irish arts (books, music, poems, plays and paintings) and crafts (handmade by Irish artisans on the register of the government sponsored Crafts Council of Ireland The Council of Ireland may refer to one of two councils, one proposed and one implemented for a brief period. 1920 - Government of Ireland Act The Council of Ireland . All handmade products are guaranteed Irish and are actually shipped from the house or workshop of the artisan to the buyer. Consumers can even add a personal message or a custom design to the gift since each piece is handmade to order.) |
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