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While the notion of mounting classic poems in modern musical settings may strike some as challengingly esoteric, that is not the case at all with An Appointment With Mr. My purpose isn’t to treat Yeats as a museum piece, but to connect with the soul of the poems - as they appear to me - then go wherever the music in my head suggests, and that means some surprising places.” Scott will bring the Waterboys to New York’s Town Hall in March for the American premiere of this provocative song cycle uniting a pair of artists separated by a century. “But I also like Yeats as a guy - a dandified, opinionated, larger-than-life character. “I love the way Yeats’ poems lend themselves to music,” says Scott. Yeats, due out on Proper American on March 26, 2013.
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Yeats on the 14 songs of An Appointment With Mr. In what stands as one of the boldest, most ambitious projects of his storied career, Waterboys auteur Mike Scott has collaborated, figuratively speaking, with the legendary Irish poet W.B. THE WATERBOYS HEADLINE THE WILBUR THEATRE ON SEPTEMBER 19 THīoston, MA- The Waterboys are set to perform The Wilbur Theatre on Thursday September 19 th, 2013 at 7:30pm