Ashley Campbell: 'I’m so proud of my dad for coming out publicly with Alzheimer's'
Ashley Campbell plays in West Cork at the weekend; right, the late Glen Campbell.
A bittersweet cloud hangs over Ashley Campbell’s memories of the time she played Dublin with her father Glen Campbell in 2011. The gig was a knockout and the audience responded with voracious enthusiasm to Campbell classics such as Wichita Lineman and By The Time I Get To Phoenix. But her dad had recently gone public with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Everyone understood the final curtain beckoned. He would pass away in 2017 aged 81.
“Shane MacGowan from the Pogues came by to say hi, so that was really cool,” she says. “I remember that being a really special show and my dad was really on point that night and just nailed every song. He really connected with the audience that night.”
