DAVID MALONEY performs The Great Blight. Seamlessly blending song and dialogue in a powerful tale of love and death, actor, singer, guitarist, and songwriter David Maloney performs The Great Blight., a folk opera exploring Irish history. This one-act one-person folk opera, written by Rick Foster with music composed by David, follows one man's journey from the oppression and desolation of famine-stricken 19th century Ireland to the hope of a new life in America. For the second half of the evening David performs from his contemporary folk repertoire.