March 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - Chile: Music: Ireland: Munster Times: The South Bend-based Irish music ensemble Kennedy's Kitchen has recorded its second CD, "Music in the Glen." The Group's Found John Kennedy learned to play guitar while serving in the Peace Corps in Chile
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March 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - Chile: Music: Ireland: Munster Times: The South Bend-based Irish music ensemble Kennedy's Kitchen has recorded its second CD, "Music in the Glen." The Group's Found John Kennedy learned to play guitar while serving in the Peace Corps in Chile
The South Bend-based Irish music ensemble Kennedy's Kitchen has recorded its second CD, "Music in the Glen." The Group's Founder John Kennedy learned to play guitar while serving in the Peace Corps in Chile
The South Bend-based Irish music ensemble Kennedy's Kitchen has recorded its second CD, "Music in the Glen." The Group's Founder John Kennedy learned to play guitar while serving in the Peace Corps in Chile
Going to the Kitchen for a second helping
Irish music ensemble Kennedy's Kitchen returns to Front Porch Music with two shows
BY WALTER SKIBA
Times Correspondent
This story ran on nwitimes.com on Friday, March 4, 2005 12:32 AM CST
The South Bend-based Irish music ensemble Kennedy's Kitchen recorded its second CD, "Music in the Glen," live at seven venues across northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
One of the venues, Front Porch Music in Valparaiso sold out last year and has scheduled two performances for this year -- 6 and 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The Kitchen present a mix of traditional dance tunes, ballads, pub songs, original songs, stories and jokes. Their sound unfolds in a soulful and lively blend.
Though the musicians plan a program set, according to founding member John Kennedy, they end up diverging from it in response to the reactions of the audience. "We create an evening of spontaneous conversation and music intertwined with surprises. The two shows will not be identical."
Kennedy's Kitchen began life about nine years ago as an informal gathering of singers and musicians at Lula's Café in South Bend and gradually jelled into a band that garnered requests to play at various parties and pubs.
The Kitchen's business grew to the point that four years ago Kennedy, who has a Ph. D. in economics from Notre Dame, decided to produce and promote his group full time.
On Jan. 30, the Kitchen performed onstage with the Chieftains at the Marie P. DeBartolo Center for Performing Arts at the University of Notre Dame.
After the show, the Chieftains came out to Fiddler's Hearth, where the Kitchen perform in open mike sessions on Wednesdays, and listened to them, along with Paddy's Racket and other area musicians, into the wee hours, according to Kennedy.
A multi-instrumentalist as well as a songwriter and singer, Kennedy learned to play guitar while serving in the Peace Corps in Chile. This past summer he took a Silver Medal on guitar in the All-Ireland Fleadh (Traditional Irish Music Competitions) in the accompaniment category, with his 16-year-old nephew Nolan Ladewski as the vocal soloist.
Ladewski also plays high and low whistles and composes. His song "The Castle on the Marsh" likely will be included in Saturday's program.
In addition to guitar and whistles, band members play such instruments as fiddle, flute, Irish bouzouki, bodhran (an Irish drum), electric bass and banjo.
In the Irish tradition, a Kitchen program always includes one or more readings. Kennedy says he plans to do his poem of tribute to his 99-year-old grandmother at Front Porch.
On April 3, the Kitchen will perform at the 5th Province Pub in Chicago. For more information about this and upcoming venues in the Michiana area, visit www.kennedyskitchen.com.
onstage
Kennedy's Kitchen, Irish music ensemble
When: 6 and 8:30 p.m. Saturday
Where: Front Porch Music, 505 E. Lincolnway, Valparaiso
Cost: $12
FYI: (219) 464-4700
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