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Thu 07 Jul 2009Yeats makes a dramatic comeback as Abbey acts to survive downturn
YEATS IS coming back to the Abbey, but not as we might expect him. The Waterboys will perform a series of five concerts at the national theatre around St Patrick’s Day, with frontman Mike Scott, Irish fiddler Steve Wickham and guest musicians performing An Appointment with Mr Yeats, combining the poetry of Yeats with the passion of the Waterboys’ music.
The relationship started when Scott set Yeats’s The Stolen Childto music on their classic Fishermans Bluesalbum.
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