Irish eyes – and ears – are smiling

If you ask Kathy DeAngelo and Dennis Gormley what the state of traditional Irish music is today, they would tell you it’s alive and well – and that’s thanks in part to the husband and wife themselves, the musicians of traditional Irish group McDermott’s Handy.

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A special concert was held Wednesday.
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The musical duo, who has been performing in the greater Tri-State area for 30 years, brought their show to the Weehawken Public Library for a special St. Patrick’s Day concert on Wednesday.
Billed as a “living memorial” to Ed McDermott, a fiddler from County Leitrim who emigrated to America in 1915, McDermott’s Handy is a sort of “do it all” duo.
At last week’s library celebration they shared Irish favorites using the Celtic harp, fiddle, flute, guitar, mandolin, banjo, bodhran, tin whistle, bouzouki – and of course, singing.
For more information visit http://www.hslc.org/~gormley.
Lana Rose Diaz can be reached at ldiaz@hudsonreporter.com.