BIR’S JULY CALENDAR OF IRISH/CELTIC EVENTS

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
June 28, 2018
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

In addition to Summer BCMFest [see separate story], this month also will see the annual New Bedford Folk Festival (July 7 and 8), which regularly features Irish/Celtic and related music. Among this year’s performers are Newfoundland guitarist-vocalist Matthew Byrne; Emerald Rae, Massachusetts-born fiddler, singer and songwriter; Northern Irish quintet Connla; Cape Breton fiddler, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist J. P.

For Open the Door for Three, the music comes down to the personal connections

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
June 28, 2018
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

Where music is concerned, the Irish music trio Open the Door for Three – Maine-based spouses Liz Knowles (fiddle) and Kieran O’Hare (uilleann pipes, flute, whistle) and their friend, Irish-born Chicagoan Pat Broaders (bouzouki, vocals) – takes it personally.

Life’s de-lovely for J. T. Turner in ‘Anything Goes’ at the Reagle

By R.J. Donovan, Special to the BIR
June 28, 2018
R.J. Donovan, Special to the BIR

Reagle Music Theater in Waltham continues its 50th anniversary season with the Cole Porter musical “Anything Goes,” which will be playing from July 5 to July 15.

Set on a luxury liner sailing from New York to London, the breezy, tap-dancing spectacular follows the comical on-board antics of a dazzling evangelist-turned-nightclub-singer, a second-rate gangster in disguise, a lovelorn Wall Street broker, a stuffy British nobleman, and more.

The score includes such standards as “You’re the Top,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “It’s De-Lovely” and more.

Look around you and you will see the positive impacts of immigration

By Joe Leary, Special to the BIR
June 28, 2018
Joe Leary, Special to the BIR

The United States of America is the most powerful country on earth. Our economy is doing very well, there are plenty of jobs for all who want to work, and our military is by far the strongest of all nations. We are the most desirable country in the world in which to live, so it is no surprise that many in the rest of the world want to come here to raise their families.

You’re baking a cake, and the customer has to pass your morality test? No, sir!

By James W. Dolan, Special to the Reporter
June 28, 2018
James W. Dolan, Special to the Reporter

When is a cake not a cake? When it becomes a matter of conscience or freedom of religion. The refusal of a Colorado baker to make (or create) a cake for a same sex marriage does not rise to that level. But even if it did, that does not outweigh the compassion and respect due others who, in the exercise of their civil rights, ask for a service or product that in no rational way could be viewed as an endorsement or approval of the marriage.

Rooting for Katie: As she fights MS, friends rush to help

By Dan Sheehan, BIR Staff
June 28, 2018
Dan Sheehan, BIR Staff

“Every day it feels like I’ve run three marathons.”
That’s how Katie Kelly O’Donnell describes the extreme exhaustion, physical and mental, that she has to cope with every day. “It’s hard to explain,” she says. “I’ve actually run a marathon before, and I’ve never felt nearly as tired as this.”

34 Dot soccer youths are prepping for games in N. Ireland next month

By Isabel Lord, Reporter Correspondent
June 28, 2018
Isabel Lord, Reporter Correspondent

Two youth soccer teams from Dorchester will travel to Northern Ireland next month to compete in an international tournament in Derry where they compete with teams from England, Ireland, Finland, Germany, and Africa, to name a few.
In total, 34 youngsters from the Under 13 and Under 16 Dorchester Youth Soccer (DYS) teams will fly over for the games, which begin on July 16.

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