Truly, there's nobody like Philip Chevron
A measure of the man's greatness is that he has been largely ignored by Official Ireland, writes Declan Lynch
ONE of the organisers of the Testimonial concert for Philip Chevron at the Olympia Theatre on the 24th of this month told me recently that it hadn't turned out quite as they had imagined.
Having assumed, in the way of these things, that about half the musicians on their wish-list would have other plans, and that the arrangements could get complicated, it turned out that almost everyone said "yes" immediately.
