Mike Rafferty in the Wall Street Journal

Irish Flute
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nice write-up:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704629804575325163231269820.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5

2

thanks!

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well-deserved, too.
I thought, “how odd that the WSJ is doing such a bang-up piece.”
Then I noticed it was the Echo writer. NIce. Better that than one of the WSJ staffers hacking it up.

dm

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Yup, the Earl of Hitchner did his usual bang-up job.

My favorite part was the mention of Lesl Harker, voted (in my house) the least likely person to ever end up in the Wall Street Journal :slight_smile:

5

Thanks for posting this. He deserves this award.

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There was a show during beg-a-thon week on our PBS affiliate some time back with a bunch of New York-New Jersey-Philadelphia (and other) ITM musicians. Joanie Madden, Mick Moloney, Athena Turgis, Robbie O’Connell, many others. Mike Rafferty joined them for a couple of sets, and there was this sort of reverence they all felt toward him. I feel the same way; I don’t think there’s another Irish flute player who embodies more of what I like in the music.