|
An Evening at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON TIMES
HOME
email
|
 |
|
Friday Evening, May 26, 2000, 6:pm
presents
O'Malley's March
[CLICK ON THIS LINK TO HEAR/VIEW THIS PERFORMANCE] While attending Washington's Gonzaga High School, tenor/guitarist Martin O'Malley formed The Shannon Tide in 1979, with his football coach, Danny Costello. Later O'Malley traded his tin whistle
for a guitar and went solo in 1985. He continued to play the circuit before joining forces with Paul Levin in 1988 to form O'Malley's March. [...]
Drummer Jamie Wilson moved to Baltimore from Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1972 to attend the Maryland Institute-College of Art, where he received a BFA degree in 1977. He began playing in a number of local bands when he was 14, and during the 1970s played punk music with Da Moronics.
During the 1980s he played with the Trutones, opening for blues artists like Charlie Musselwhite, Tinsley Ellis, and Koko Taylor.
Jared Denhard is a Celtic-Harper, storyteller, highland piper and trombonist who performs Celtic, classical and jazz music. He has performed with the Delaware Symphony, the Baltimore Municipal Band and the Lexington Brass Quintet. A member of the medieval jazz group Kelita and the early music Boar's Head Consort, Denhard's compositions have been performed and
recorded by the US Air Force Band, the Kinetics Dance Theater, the London Portable Harp Company and the Annapolis Brass Quintet.
A native Baltimorean, Bob Baum began guitar lessons when he was 13. By the time he was 14, he was playing lead guitar and was a member of The Prime Movers, which played the top 40 tunes of the time. During college he founded and played with a rock/R&B band called A New Day, and stayed with them for seven years. Jamie Wilson introduced him to Martin O'Malley in 1989 and he is now an
active member of O'Malley's March.
Ralph Reinoldi is a veteran of numerous Baltimore area rock/pop bands. On the local folk scene he currently plays bass, mandolin, bouzouki and guitar in the acoustic-rock band Dharma Burns. Occasionally he fills in on guitar for the Dilettantes. Reinoldi first appeared with the March as a guest musician to give the band a strong rock sound.
Flutist/piper Paul Levin discovered the Uilleann pipes while in Ireland in the mid-1960s, but was unable to purchase them in this country. Years later on a return trip to Ireland, he finally obtained a set and attempted to teach himself to play them. After unsuccessful attempts he studied with Bill Ochs who taught him the grammar an diction of piping. With Martin O'Malley, he founded the March in 1988.
Presented as part of the Kennedy Center festival
Island: Arts from Ireland |
