A Very Special Night of Music
Isaac Alderson, Gráinne Murphy, Alan Murray
Traditional Irish Music from New York City
Sat., Feb. 20, 8:30 PM
Admission: $15 / PCG members: $13
Discounted tickets available online at:
Philadelphia Ceili Group On-line concert tickets and workshops
[Check out the special internet ticket prices for concert and workshops!]
Commodore Barry Club / The Irish Center
6815 Emlen St. / Phila., Pa 19119
Instrumental workshops in fiddle, guitar, flute
& whistle will be hosted by the musicians
from 5–7 pm, with a pipes workshop from 3-5pm
The fee for each workshop is $25
Please Register Online or at the Door
For more Information call: (267) 205-1188
Or e-mail phillyceiligroup@gmail.com
Isaac Alderson began pursuing Irish traditional music at the age of thirteen in his home city of Chicago. Throughout his teenage years he had the good fortune to study with Fermanagh flute and whistle master Laurence Nugent, and took piping lessons periodically with Al Purcell, Kieran O’Hare, and Jerry O’Sullivan, among others. At the 2002 Fleadh Cheoil in Listowel, Isaac was named the All-Ireland Senior Champion on three instruments: uilleann pipes, flute and whistle, the first American to do so. Now residing in New York City, he plays throughout the northeast and across the country, and in Europe and Canada with a wide range of traditional and modern Irish music artists.
Gráinne Murphy was born in Boston, where she began playing Irish music at an early age. Having received a fiddle at age four, she began taking weekly lessons with Séamus Connolly, the renowned All-Ireland champion fiddler from Clare. After several years of studying with Séamus she went on to win All-Ireland honors of her own. Along with her brothers Daniel and Patrick Murphy, pianist Peter Barnes and Séamus Connolly, Gráinne recorded her first group album when she was fifteen years old. She has performed with many fine Irish musicians, including numerous guest appearances with Joanie Madden and Cherish the Ladies. Her new CD, Short Stories, is her first solo recording.
Alan Murray began playing Irish music on the tin whistle at the age of nine in Glasgow. By age twelve, he was playing in a céilí band for weddings and parties around Scotland. Alan later moved on to the guitar, inspired by his teenage lust for rock music. After a number of years, his traditional roots won out, and he began a serious career playing trad music on guitar and bouzouki. Since moving to New York in ‘06, he has become a fixture in the Irish music scene and a sought-after accompanist.
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SAVE THE DATE
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 8pm
Bua
in Concert
a return engagement for this extremely popular Irish Super Band.
A quintet comprised of some of America’s most talented, young musicians, Bua have been described by Irish Music Magazine as “the essence of a superb band,” their sound “a throwback to the playing of the 1960s and 1970s, keeping the music down the path of tradition” and their 2006 release, Live at Martyrs’, “a work without gimmicks, where the musicianship is of the highest quality.” It is no surprise then that Bua, lending to its Irish Gaelic meaning of ‘victory,’ have quickly risen to the status of America’s premier traditional Irish music ensemble. As a band, Bua have performed at numerous festivals including Boston’s prestigious Irish Connections Festival, The Milwaukee Irish Festival, Cleveland’s Irish Cultural Festival, Celtic Fest Chicago and The Saline Celtic Festival. As individuals they’ve shared the stage with a host of top Irish musicians including Martin Hayes, David Munnelly, Liz Carroll, Larry Nugent, Paddy Keenan, Aoife Clancy, Pat Broaders, Dennis Cahill, John Williams and more! Bill Margeson of the Irish American News captures their essence concisely: “Clearly, this group is no locally-based collection of musicians trying to break out of Chicago. This is a group that has established itself [both] individually and as a group in the eyes and ears of the traditional community…As other bands change, disband or simply fade away, the tradition is blessed by what seems to be an inexhaustible pool of talent that comes to the front of the stage. It is Bua’s time. Here they come.”
