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Live at the Church of the Pilgrimage
A live recording, from a 2008 concert at Church of the Pilgrimage, Plymouth, MA. Songs and tunes heavily inspired by the Irish tradition but also colored by rock, jazz, and folk—vocals, guitar, Irish flute and whistle, sax, djembe, conga. Featuring Stephen and Susan (Gedutis) Lindsay with Brian Haley on percussion. Special guests also include fiddler Nikki Engstrom, percussionist Mance Grady, and percussionist Salil Sachdev.
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See You at the Hall:
Boston’s Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance
The book, which was released in May, has been well-received and will soon be reissued in paperback. Buy See You at the Hall at Amazon.com. Also check out its companion CD: Irish Music of the 1950s.
Read what the press has to say about See You at the Hall.
From the 1940s to the mid-1960s, on several evenings a week, thousands of Irish and Irish Americans flocked from miles around to the huge, bustling dance halls—the Intercolonial, the Hibernian, Winslow Hall, the Dudley Street Opera House, the Rose Croix—that dotted Boston's Dudley Square. For the city's Irish population, the Roxbury neighborhood, with its ballrooms and thriving shopping district, was a vital center of social and cultural life, as well as a bridge from the old world to the new.
See You at the Hall brings to life the rich history of the “American capital of Galway” through the eyes of those who gathered and performed there. In this engaging look back at Boston's golden era of Irish traditional music, Susan Gedutis deftly weaves together engaging narrative with spirited personal reminiscences to trace the colorful dance hall period from its beginnings in 1940s Roxbury, when masses of young Irish flooded Boston following World War II, through its peak years in the 1950s, to its decline in the 1960s, when reduced immigration, urban social upheaval, and a shift in neighborhood demographics brought an end to the heyday of Irish dance hall music in Boston. After the last dance hall closed, Dudley Square musicians moved from the big ballrooms to pubs, social clubs, and private parties, preserving the music and passing it on to younger generations of Irish performers.