The big Joe Mac shows that he still has what it takes

Showbands veteran Joe Mac joins fellow classic acts for one night of good-old fashioned variety entertainment, writes Jo Kerrigan

REMEMBER the golden days of entertainment when good old-fashioned humour, along with classic music and song, were the order of the day? Well now it’s returning — for one night at least — to Cork Opera House next Saturday, with a variety show full of those classic acts you (or your parents) enjoyed so much.

Linda Kenny, the Cork Tenors, the Montfort Singers, Deirdre White & Lorraine Manley, and the Cork Arts Studio Youth Choir are all on the bill; joining them, though, will be the veterans of variety entertainment, the old pros who between them have seen everything, learned every theatrical trick in the book, and are still as lively as ever. Comedians Pat O’Sullivan and Noel Barrett, whose memories of pantomime would fill a book, the Donal Ring Ceili Band, almost 60 years in the business, and the one and only Joe Mac.