Steafán Hanvey comes to Boston (IrishCentral)

Hailing from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, Steafán Hanvey is a singer and songwriter returning to the US in March and April to both perform songs from his new album Nuclear Family and present the multimedia presentation "Look Behind You! A Father and Son’s Impressions of the Troubles in Northern Ireland Through Photograph and Song"Look Behind You! is a performance-lecture that details how a father and son have negotiated the personal and political landscapes of Northern Ireland A melding of image and voice, anecdote and memory, it showcases the prize-winning photojournalism of Steafán’s father Bobbie along with radio-edits of his interviews with some of Northern Ireland’s best-known figuresTogether, Bobbie and Steafán document the ordinary and at the same time the extraordinary – mums and dads, police and priests, the loved and the loveless, soldiers and paramilitaries, plain-folk and gentry, politicians and voters, poets, singers, painters, travelers gathered around a fire on a cold winter’s morning, the living and the dead READ MORE