Two Legends, Two Thursdays, One Place: Boston College recently featured concerts by fiddlers Frankie Gavin and Kevin Burke

 It wasn’t actually planned that way, but last month in the space of a week, Boston College’s Gaelic Roots series hosted two of the most celebrated Irish fiddle players of the past five decades. On Nov. 2, Frankie Gavin and accompanist Catherine McHugh performed in BC’s Connolly House, and then on Nov.

Brendan O’Neill, Saving Shakespeare From Obscurity in “The Book of Will”

We’ve all heard of William Shakespeare, playwright, poet and actor.  The Bard of Avon. But have you heard of Henry Condell and John Heminges? Probably not. Yet history tells us that without the last two, we might never have heard of the first.

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