CONNECT SAVANNAH

NOVEMBER 23, 2005

 

With a brand new album just out, and a longstanding, crowd-pleasing gig at this perpetually popular Irish pub on Historic River Street, this acoustic balladeer has become almost synonymous with the notion of Celtic music in Savannah.

A facile guitarist with a gentle lilt in his strong clear voice, contemporary folk and acoustic pop roll off his fingers and tongue with ease, yet he’s also equally at home with the traditional hymns, jigs and reels of his homeland.

That’s evident in the knowledgeable manner in which he structures and produces

The Green Island, a Georgia Public Broadcasting radio show which originates locally on WSVH FM 91.1

Much like blues guitarist Eric Culberson, who has been such a familiar sight on the Savannah bar scene that it’s easy to forget how inspired he can be on a good night, Harry’s one of those local treasures that deserves to be appreciated by the natives as well as the tourists (which make up the brunt of his audiences).

Wed- Sun; Kevin Barry’s