Dancer Backstage: Fuck him! He never picks me!
Dancer Backstage: Honey, I *did* fuck him and he never picks me either.

All That Jazz, The Movie

The language was a bit loose in that movie. And it was pretty mainstream commercial.

What Honor Heffernan & Friends presented last Wednesday night in Dublin’s John Field Room at the National Concert Hall was far from mainstream commercial. It felt like as if it came from a whole different world. And there was no loose language.

The first time I heard Honor’s name, I searched for her on YouTube and found a clip of a young Honor singing The Long and Winding Road in the Royal Albert Hall, no less. So I was prepared for a great voice and a magic evening. But not for anything close to what it turned out to be. Pure magic and transformative.

Unfortunately, we didn’t record the practically sold out concert. The atmosphere in the John Field room was so ‘jazz’ that you could smell the non-existing cigars and whiskeys. It was obvious that not only the audience, but also the musicians enjoyed the night tremendously.

For many, it was one of the few occasions that they ever got out, never mind to such a cool jazz concert. All musicians donated their talent and time to Teach An Saol. They were friends not just of Honor’s, but also of Phil’s, Honor’s former pianist who has been recovering making huge progress with some help of the An Saol Foundation.

His friends were delighted to see him and Phil must have felt so much love and friendship from his musical soul mates.

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I finally took the time to put together the short video clips from Pádraig’s visit to Torrelavega’s finest, the neurological Élize clinic, where he worked hard with Marcos and Laura on his upper body.

There isn’t a day when we couldn’t learn something.

The days in Cantabria with our Spanish friends were a prime example.

Exercise, physio, stretching, activity, a lust for life – and All That Jazz.