The Church on the Hill in Lenox is creating a free one-hour virtual Christmas Eve Sing-Along and Benefit for the waitstaff of Lenox restaurants who have been adversely affected by the pandemic.
The Christmas Eve event will be co-hosted by Billy Keene from the popular Whiskey Treaty Road Show and well known local muscian Wanda Houston. The virtual fundraiser will also include guest performances by other local musicians, and a few words from local community members. Throughout the event, viewers can donate to Lenox restaurant waitstaff. Event organizers are working with the local eateries to identify and quantify each and every server.
The Church on the Hill in Lenox is creating a free one-hour virtual Christmas Eve Sing-Along and Benefit for the waitstaff of Lenox restaurants who have been adversely affected by the pandemic.
The Christmas Eve event will be co-hosted by Billy Keene from the popular Whiskey Treaty Road Show and well known local muscian Wanda Houston. The virtual fundraiser will also include guest performances by other local musicians, and a few words from local community members. Throughout the event, viewers can donate to Lenox restaurant waitstaff. Event organizers are working with the local eateries to identify and quantify each and every server.
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One of Irish America s most prestigious honours has been awarded to writer Billy Keane in what he described as a particularly proud moment, honouring him alongside his father, as it did, for their services to Irish literature.
Sadly, Covid put the kybosh on Billy collecting the Irish Books, Arts and Music Chicago 2020 Literature Award - announced on Friday - in person. Hopefully next year we will be able to get over to receive it, Billy told The Kerryman. It s a lovely award to receive, and it s a particularly proud moment as it s with the old man. Even though we re closed, it recognises 65 years of writers in the pub. That must be some kind of record and, while not comparing myself to the old man, it is nice to be able to carry the tradition on, he said.
Irish director Jim Sheridan turned
The Field into an award-winning film starring Richard Harris for which he received an Academy Award nomination. The great Limerick-born actor died just a few months after John B Keane in 2002.
Mr Keane is now celebrated with a special statue to his memory in Listowel which also hosts an annual literary festival. There is a special section in the Kerry Writers Museum dedicated to John B Keane.
Last October it emerged that a long-forgotten copybook containing his early work was given to the Keane family.
It is believed the copybook dates from around 1947, when John B was in his late teens, a period when he focused on writing poetry, much of it inspired by the local Kerry countryside, history and folklore. He was particularly taken with incidents in Kerry relating to the War of Independence.