The Candlelight Reading Series presents selections of Celtic Poetry by Dylan Thomas, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Moore and others, including an excerpt from a Lughnasadh ceremony as written and celebrated by the Order Of Bards, Ovates and Druids in England this week on Saturday, August 11th, 2007 at 8 PM at Revelations, upstairs.

Your host, as usual, is poet & impresario Freddy Niagara Fonseca. This time, he has invited poet & playwright Michael Johnson, and artist & Druid Gale Park to recite with him.

You will also hear some historic recordings recited by Dylan Thomas, Siobhan McKenna and Cyril Cusack, as well as a few original poems by Michael and Freddy. Everyone is invited.

PROGRAM

William Butler Yeats — Red Hanrahan’s Song About Ireland — FNF

Patrick Kavananagh — In Memory of My Mother — FNF 

Dylan Thomas — Death Shall Have No Dominion — MJ

Dylan Thomas — The Force That Through The Green Fuse — MJ

Dylan Thomas — Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night — MJ

Thomas Moore — Remember the Glories of Brien the Brave — FNF

Thomas Moore — The Origin of the Harp — FNF

Thomas Moore — To ———— — FNF

William Butler Yeats — Sailing To Byzantium — MJ

William Butler Yeats — The Song Of Wandering Aengus — MJ

William Butler Yeats — Broken Dreams — MJ

Anonymous Street Song — The Night Before Larry Was Stretched — FNF

Excerpt from a Lughnasadh ceremony as written and celebrated by the Order Of Bards, Ovates and Druids in England

Michael Johnson — Three Sonnets From his SONNETS OF ETERNITIE — MJ

Thomas Moore — When He Who Adores Thee — FNF

Thomas Moore — Oh! Breathe Not His Name — FNF

Thomas Moore — Come, Rest In This Bosom — FNF

Dylan Thomas — Fern Hill — Recording, read by Dylan Thomas

William Butler Yeats — When You Are Old — MJ

William Butler Yeats — The Second Coming — MJ

William Butler Yeats — The Cloths Of Heaven — MJ

Lady Dufferin — Lament of the Irish Emigrant — FNF

Dylan Thomas — Sometimes the Sky's Too Bright — FNF

William Butler Yeats — The Isle of Innisfree — Recording, read by Siobhan McKenna

William Butler Yeats — Skipping to Paradise — Recording, read by Cyril Cusack

Gaelic Poem — Broken Vows — MJ

Michael Johnson — Two Sonnets From his SONNETS OF ETERNITIE — MJ

Derek Mahon — Everything Is Going to Be All Right — FNF

Freddy Niagara Fonseca — The Language of the Trees — FNF

Thomas Moore — The Meeting of the Waters — FNF

The 2007 Readings

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