Decades old tradition returned to city centre featuring wealth of Irish musical talent
A host of Irish music stars have joined Glen Hansard for the annual Dublin charity Christmas Eve busk, which has returned after a two-year pandemic hiatus.
He was joined by two Ukrainian women, Anna and Alex, in singing Candle in the Window, dedicated to the people of Ukraine suffering “tonight and every night”. The women then led a foot-stamping Christmas carol in their native tongue. But shortly after 4pm, an hour before the metaphorical curtain-up, people had begun to gather as they cottoned on to the reason for the erection of a makeshift stage, sound system installation and the cymbal clang of a drum kit being moved.
Gardaí cheerily assisted people wondering what the fuss was all about. One woman, arriving with her family too late to catch a good view of the stage, asked did one of the men look a bit like that singer Glen Hansard.
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