Dan_ packs a Waterford wallop

Falling into that M&M category is a critic named Christian Hoard, who brandished his ignorance of Irish traditional music by summarizing the
Waterford-based septet Dan_ this way in the Sept. 25 issue of the Village Voice: “They’re jokey, sloppy, and prone to f**king around like an Irish folk version of the Dead. Their songs — which get by on enthusiasm and a gentle-voiced singer named Ciar