The 46th President of the United States is 60 and steeped in Irish culture. He likes Bruce Springsteen, the poet Seamus Heaney and the heads of the Irish traditional music group.
Finally due to health restrictions, “We can’t travel to play Joe Biden’s nomination and we regret it, it was such an honor to be invited, Prominent leader Paddy Moloney told the site Irish Central, Monday, January 18. I hope that he would like to invite us again in the next few months. “ The 46th President of the United States would console himself with Lady Gaga who would sing the American anthem. However, The Setters, a traditional Irish music group founded in 1962, is actually their favorite group. In a magazine interview The people In 2012, Joe Biden explained that his absolute dream song was Shenandoah From their side. In 2016, during an official visit to Ireland, he went to hear him at the bar of florist Matt Molloy in Westport.
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Compared to other democratic presidents such as John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Barack Obama, Joe Biden is not fond of culture. In Washington, eight years of vice-presidency, he attended only seven cultural events, including an Irish festival, a symphony concert, an opera, a ballet, and a theater master class. Same thing in my state of Delaware. At the age of 78, Joe Biden does not have the image of a “cool” Este, but rather a man with the choice of “Dad”. Very logically, he has a taste for his age. He loves the culture of the 60s when he himself was eighteen. And everything that reminds him of his Irish origins.
According to a Spotify playlist published in 2016, he gave music We take care of ourselves Bruce Springsteen, Come together Of the Beatles, You are beautiful son By Joe Cocker. He also loves Rod Stewart, Elton John, Tina Turner, Al Green and Ray Charles. Among recent artists, she is a fan of Adele, Sam Smith, Coldplay and … Lady Gaga. If he occasionally goes to Broadway to watch the show with his family, he loves the wretched French Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Baubill and especially in their song Do you hear people singing.
On the cinema side, he still cites only one film released in 1981: chariots of Fire By Hugh Hudson with Ben Cross and Ian Charlson. Lively story of two British athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. Jewish English provokes anti-Semitism and class barriers to confront the so-called Flying Scotsman, a well-known Presbyterian Protestant. The film won four Oscars in 1982, including Best Film, for Commitment, Willpower, and Honor. “Putting my principles in front of fame and glory is real heroism for me, that’s why I like this film”, Joe Biden Explained to TV Channel CBS. In literature, he appreciates the short stories of American writer John Grisham and of course the works of Irish author James Joyce and Irish poet Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate for Literature in 1995, of which he is a long passage. Are able to read.
Strong protector of culture
However, Joe Biden is considered a very good friend of artists and writers. During his long career being elected to Congress in Delaware and then as vice president, he has always defended culture. Specifically the budgets of the two most important federal cultural bodies: the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). These institutions are financing large museums such as the Met, theater and art initiation in rural areas. They were clearly seriously under the chairmanship of Donald Trump.
Joe Biden also supported several major cultural projects such as the construction of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. On the occasion of the investment ceremony, the museum is also dedicating an online exhibition to the presence of African Americans in the White House, Kamala Harris’s slave, becoming the first African American female vice president. There are high expectations in cultural circles for the first months of Joe Biden’s presidency. The urgency is to gain control of the epidemic so that the cinema, theater, museum and concert hall can reopen as soon as possible.
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