The Webb Sisters will be playing on their home turf this coming summer at The Black…
Performing at The National University of Ireland Maynooth
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Thursday, June 20, 2019 – 19:00 to 21:00
Aula Maxima, Maynooth University
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Maynooth Summer Soirée 2019 – I Remember You Well…The Webb Sisters and special guests perform and remember Leonard Cohen with John MacKenna
This will be special evening of music, reflection and performance at Maynooth University with The Webb Sisters, former backing vocalists to Leonard Cohen. The evening will feature a performance by Charley and Hattie Webb, interspersed by conversation with author, poet, playwright and good friend of Leonard’s, John MacKenna. Joining the festivities will be novelist and poet Dermot Bolger and renowned songwriter and musician Kevin Doherty, with the line-up completed by our very own alumnus—academic, writer and activist Dr. Bríd Connolly.
Maynooth University is proud to host this very special event looking at the life, work and influence of one of the 20th century’s best loved poets and singer/songwriters Leonard Cohen. This event is the culmination of the university’s Department of Adult & Community Education Summer School 2019 ‘Popular Culture and the Making of Meaning- social issues in the works of Leonard Cohen, Dory Previn and Paul Simon’. The programme is part of the BA in Community Studies and was conceived of by author, poet, playwright and friend of Leonard Cohen’s, John MacKenna. John will be joined by two artists who had such a distinctive part to play in Leonard Cohen’s return to live performances Charley and Hattie Webb.
In 2008 Leonard Cohen went back on the road and flanked by some of the world’s best known and most respected musicians delighted audiences around the globe. This may have been many people’s introduction to the voices of the Webb Sisters but the impression left by their singular harmonies that elevated each song into the celestial, is something that once heard would never be forgotten.
Jointly produced by Maynooth University Department of Adult and Community Education and Development and Alumni Relations Office.
Photograph by Jake Morley
Click to see the full size poster: I remember you well, A4 Poster
