Rave On, Van Morrison 75th birthday tribute

[eva_arg]

https://www.hotpress.com/music/rave-...press-22823834

To mark his 75th birthday on August 31 – in a world first – Ireland’s Hot Press magazine has curated musical tributes by 75 exceptional artists, to be broadcast to the world via YouTube, in August and September



Other artists who will perform Van Morrison songs as part of Rave On, Van Morrison include at least two of the four Irish artists who have achieved US No.1 albums, Hozier and Sinéad O’Connor. Also performing Van’s songs are leading Irish music lights like Imelda May, Bob Geldof of The Boomtown Rats, Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, Andrea Corr of The Corrs, Glen Hansard, Paul Brady, Una Healy of The Saturdays, Damien Rice, Gavin James, The Academic, Moya Ní Bhraonáin of Clannad, Loah, Mick Flannery, Mary Stokes, Altan, Eleanor McEvoy, David Keenan and the rising young Dublin rapper, Malaki, among many more.

[Claude]

Thank you Eva,
very interesting news !

[eva_arg]

Mon Aug 24 Damien Rice Crazy Love (7pm) on https://www.youtube.com/hotpressmagazine

[Claude]

Thank you Eva,
i can't wait !

[borneoman]

this is today!!!!
7pm Irish time so 8pm in Europe
at the Hotpress Youtube site

[Shillelagh]

[Shillelagh]

It is so good. I miss him dearly. Rave on Van Morrison. Rave on Damien Rice. Rave on Lisa Hannigan.

[mattministrator]

It‘s truly amazing. Thanks once again, dear fellow eskimofriends. This would have passed me by it weren‘t for you.

[Shillelagh]

I do miss this place. In its prime, it was a verdant oasis in the brutal desert of internet message boards. It’s the only place I still come back to from time to time. I’ve now been listening to his music and reading this board for 15 years. That’s just incomprehensible to me. Time is eerie and cruel.

I can still remember the first time I heard his music. It was spring of 2004, I was a freshman in college and was lying in a too small twin bed with a girl I thought I loved at the time. We were smoking a joint and downloading music on Napster or Limewire or Kazaa and came across The Blowers Daughter. It changed my entire music world from that point forward. Then I got to see him and The Frames live in Chicago. It blew me away again. I had never or have never since that point been so moved and connected to a musician or really any form of art. Damien’s brutal honestly and integrity has a lot to do with why it feels so personal and intimate to me. Since then there of course has been ups and downs and ups. But I still come back and feel that connection. And feel what I felt those early days after discovering him. I can almost smell or taste it. It’s very strange. But I like it.

[Claude]

Originally Posted by Shillelagh

Just in case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ4UxRAPfZ8

[eva_arg]

Loved it

[Claude]

Wonderful cover !


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