| Islands of Song |
| Each artist got up to do two songs. After Clare came Niall Connolly. Niall's publicity photos did not do him justice. He was much cuter in person! He introduced his set with the comment that he'd been having fun hanging out with his "new found friends." None of the Irish performers seem to be able to say Newfoundland the "proper way." They insisted on pronouncing it as "NewFOUNDlund." It surprised me that none of the fiercely proud Newfound-landers in the bunch had taught them the correct way. Just remember the phrase "Understand? Newfoundland!" and put the accent on the same syllable. Also using Darrell's guitar, he swept the audience off their feet with his thought-provoking lyrics. The first song was a quiet song that evoked images of Cork and the surrounding area. "You are the seagull who insists we can have a room with a view Iif we gotta live here along these windswept cliffs." |
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| Colleen Power was up next and so enjoyable! Her songs are upbeat and real. I had seen her a month ago at the ECMA's Songwriters' Circle, hosted by Bruce Guthro. She had the audience wrapped around her little finger then, too. Her first song was about not having a car. She commented that she was glad she didn't have one here in Cork as she couldn't get used to driving on the opposite side of the road. It was called If I Had A Car, I Wouldn't Need You. She told us "All my friends wonder which one of them it's about." The next song was called, "No Greater Queen." I won't go there. She is a panic and her songs are about real life as seen in a humorous vein |
| His second song was a sobering one. Again with the theme of war. It was called "Cost of Living." He said it was going to be "very bleak, about someone just trying to get some perspective on the world and failing." Some of the lyrics: "This is not Fallujah, Ramadi, Darfur. No one here knows what we're fighting for. We've all got our worries and still, I'd like to carry yours." At the end, Niall announced, "We wrote a song together yesterday and it sounds like it...but we'll sing the song we wrote together later - it's more cheerful!" |
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| All together now! |
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