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A debatable premise that’s also a song from a mostly forgettable Bob Dylan album brought up here because of Shane MacGowan’s contribution to the Nick Cave cover on Murder Ballads.
The Pogues’ frontman and his band already occupied a popular spot on setlists come St. Patrick’s Day, infusing traditional Irish folk music with punk spirit, working-class liberalism and humour.
A brilliant lyricist renowned for excessive drug and alcohol use, MacGowan died of pneumonia in November, making this the first St. Paddy’s Day to lift a glass to all his sparsely-toothed glory.
“The Pogues are an unbelievably important influence for our band,” Blair McEvoy, leader of the Dust Rhinos. “I grew up listening to traditional Celtic songs but when the Pogues played those same songs of my childhood with all the fury of a punk band it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard. They didn’t just open the door to the Celtic-rock era of the ’80s and ’90s they kicked the door right off.”
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The local party band had long contemplated a Pogues tribute show, and are scratching that itch with an all-Pogues set during their St. Patrick’s Day show, on Sunday of course, at the West End Cultural Centre.
Here’s hoping MacGowan was in heaven half an hour before the devil knew he was dead.
While Sunday seems a right and proper day to celebrate, there’s a whole weekend of opportunity to go green.
The Irish Association of Manitoba headquarters, a.k.a. the club, is Ulsneach hill, as in Irish central. Friday features long-running band Celtic Way, with the parade starting and ending there Saturday. Make it back in time from the 10 a.m. start for a full Irish brekkie from 11-1 p.m. Pop-rock band Encore plays at 7 p.m.
Sunday begins with an ecumenical service at 11 a.m. and doubles down on tradition with all the food, drink, music and dance you can handle.
Taking a much less traditional approach is Devil May Care Brewing, with its Not-A-St.Paddy’s-Day party on Friday. Green hats and clover prints strongly discouraged, but three new beers and Freebirds Kitchen sitting in for the Jets game. Sunday offers a crib tourney and Bahn mi pop-up.
Choosing Saturday for its shenanigans, which at least sounds like an Irish term, is Stone Angel Brewing. Music, dance, craic and beer are on the menu — with the first two on hold during the Ireland-Scotland rugby match — during its Last Hooley, in celebration of the big man himself … Maewyn Succat.
Times Change(d) has the Tarbenders on St. Paddy’s Day Eve.
Shannon’s Irish Pub will be rocking all weekend with live bands and lively dance, with a weekend full of music also happening over at the King’s Head Pub. Get that Folklorama feel at Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Fest at Centre-Cultural Franco Manitobain, hosted by the McConnell Irish Dancers.
You can also hit up Osborne Taphouse with Dr. Rocktopus or any and all of your local watering holes.
Theatre options abound this weekend, with The Piano Teacher at RMTC, Tetris at MTYP, and Rise, Red River at Theatre Cercle Moliere, a trilingual play with subtitles for all … The sixth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, gets the live in concert treatment at Centennial Concert Hall on Friday and Saturday night … and, the burlesque community raises funds for the Winnipeg International Burlesque Festival with Tits For Charity at the Rec Room on Saturday night.
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A debatable premise that’s also a song from a mostly forgettable Bob Dylan album brought up here because of Shane MacGowan’s contribution to the Nick Cave cover on Murder Ballads.
The Pogues’ frontman and his band already occupied a popular spot on setlists come St. Patrick’s Day, infusing traditional Irish folk music with punk spirit, working-class liberalism and humour.
A brilliant lyricist renowned for excessive drug and alcohol use, MacGowan died of pneumonia in November, making this the first St. Paddy’s Day to lift a glass to all his sparsely-toothed glory.
“The Pogues are an unbelievably important influence for our band,” Blair McEvoy, leader of the Dust Rhinos. “I grew up listening to traditional Celtic songs but when the Pogues played those same songs of my childhood with all the fury of a punk band it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard. They didn’t just open the........
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