DAN FOLEY RETURNS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 82, 17 January 1941, Page 44

DAN FOLEY RETURNS

Wanderings Of An Irish Tenor

Zealand singer is back among his old friends again after a tour of Australia where he sang old Irish folk songs from Melbourne to a thousand miles beyond Brisbane. At Charters Towers and Townsville and many other small towns in Northern Queensland his Irish songs wrung tears from the hearts of folk lonely for Old Erin. The secret, he says, lies in both sincerity and presentation. He sings from the heart, asa true artist should;~but he is ‘also quick to use all the modern trends of presentation, writing and-com-péring his shows with his own continuity, unr such, titles as ."‘ Kerry aagestcots = " Glimpses of Eire." " Bincs’ he was last in New Zealand, Dan Foléy has been under engagement to the Australian ‘Broadcasting Commission in D AN FOLEY, the Irish-New all the leading ABC featute programmes, including "Radio Roundabout," "Sarabande: and Serenade,’ ‘with Harry Bloom’s Ensemble, " le Bloom Presents," "As You Like It" with the Melbourne Theatre Orchestra, the "Variety" show of the ABC. Always he concentrates’on Irish songs, though occasionally

he presented patriotic songs of which he has the latest folios sent from the English publishers. In addition to ABC ‘work, he made many theatre appearances, particularly in Sydney and in Northern Queensland, In Melbourne he appeared at the Capitol, the . leading show theatre; with the orchestra of Isidore Goodman, who toured here with Joseph Hislop some time ago. Everywhere he was sought out by Irish people who thanked him for his singing of their favourite Irish songs, With a repertoire of 700 songs he was able to accede to almost any request. Dan Foley’s New Zealand itinerary planned by the NBS for evening studio recitals is as follows:-2YA, January 15, 18, 20, and 25; 3YA, January 28 and 31, and February 3 and 6; 4YA, 11, 15, 18, and 22.