Andy Irvine performs at Homelights Festival. Photo by kDamo.
Nevada GOP Caucus, Novelist Zakes Mda, And Folk Singer Andy Irvine
Steve Scher
02/03/2012 at 9:00 a.m.
Nevada GOP Caucus Preview: Nevada holds its Republican presidential caucus tomorrow. We'll talk to students on the scene in Las Vegas for The Seattle Times' UW Election Eye to give us a picture of the voters and climate there.
Novelist Zakes Mda: As a boy, Zakes Mda had to follow his father into exile. His father was president of the African National Congress Youth League and expelled in 1963. The teenaged Mda, already a published writer in his native language, had to sneak across the border into Lesotho and was helped through the dangerous journey by his father's supporters. In a new memoir, the popular and award–winning South African novelist explores the racial, cultural and political tensions that shaped the South African independence movement.
Irish Music Legend Andy Irvine: Andy Irvine is a founding member of Planxty, the iconic Irish revival group of the 1970s. They pioneered use of guitars, mandolin and bouzouki alongside traditional uilleann pipes, and opened Irish music to a whole new audience. It's not exaggerating to call them revolutionary. Andy's a singer–songwriter too, and a collector of songs and tunes from all over the world. He's playing tonight at Dusty Strings in Fremont at 7:30 p.m. and he's with us this morning in our performance studio.
Related Event
Andy Irvine in concert at Dusty Strings in Fremont, tonight at 7:30 p.m. See link below for details.
Guest(s)
David Domke is professor and chair of the communication department at the University of Washington. He studies the relationships among US politics, journalism and public opinion, with particular interests in racial, religious and nationalistic communications.
Ilona Idlis is a third–year undergraduate student at the University of Washington.
Zakes Mda is the author of numerous novels, including "The Heart Of Redness" and his autobiographical book "Sometimes There Is A Void: Memoirs Of An Outsider." He is based in both Johannesburg, South Africa and Athens, Ohio, where he teaches creative writing at Ohio University.
Andy Irvine is a folk singer, songwriter and a Woody Guthrie fan.
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- UW Election Eye at The Seattle Times
- 'Memories of South Africa During and After Apartheid,' The New York Times Book Review
- 'Of Women, Politics and Laughs,' The New York Times
- Zakes Mda on Twitter
- Andy Irvine's Bouzouki
- Andy Irvine At Dusty Springs
