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A St. Patrick’s Day Celebration With Katie McNally and Neil Pearlman
A thrilling, joyful evening of fiddle tunes, step dance, and song from New England’s Celtic traditions.
New England trad duo Katie McNally (fiddle) and Neil Pearlman (piano) bring their lively Saint Patrick’s Day Celebration to BOMBYX! We'll celebrate New England’s rich Celtic history with some of the finest musicians and dancers from around the world, including the legendary Irish-American fiddler Liz Carroll, guitarist/pianist Jake Charron of Prince Edward Island’s Juno-winning band The East Pointers, multi-award-winning Québéçois folk trio Genticorum, and Leitrim, Ireland-based dancer Siobhán Butler.
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Katie McNally & Neil Pearlman
Fiddler Katie McNally's imaginative and fierce music has been described as "as grounded in the tradition as it is ground-breaking" (Folk Radio UK). McNally grew up playing Scottish and Cape Breton fiddle near Boston and currently tours with her own projects: Fàrsan, Pine Tree Flyers, and the Katie McNally Trio. She has appeared at Celtic Colours, Celtic Connections, Newport Folk Festival, and The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, as well as countless folk venues throughout North America and Europe. In addition to her busy touring schedule, she is the artistic director of the Boston States Fiddle Camp and is a devoted educator who teaches regularly at fiddle camps across the country.
A truly individual voice in the world of Celtic music, multi-instrumentalist and stepdancer Neil
Pearlman continues to blaze his own trail making music that ranges from the traditional to the avant-garde, in big collectives and intimate duo projects, including his one-on-one collaborations recorded and published in the podcast TradCafé. Described as “a tremendous pianist” on BBC Radio Scotland, Neil is recognized in many Celtic music circles for his unique approach to the piano. Rooted in traditional Cape Breton piano styles, he adds jazz harmony and the syncopations of funk, Cuban, and Brazilian dance music to create a distinctive and infectious sound.
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Liz Carroll is an Irish fiddler, composer, and recording artist. She is the first Irish-American musician to be nominated for a Grammy, and the first American-born composer honored with the Cumadóir TG4, Ireland’s most significant traditional music prize. She has toured as a solo artist and with The Green Fields of America, the group Trian, as the duo Liz Carroll & John Doyle, String Sisters, and now as a duo with guitarist and pianist Jake Charron. Featured on fourteen albums and appearing on many more, her duet album with Jake Charron, Half Day Road, was released in February of 2019. She will soon publish a new book of recent compositions following the sold-out success of Collected - Original Irish Tunes in 2010. Liz was born in Chicago, Illinois, of Irish parents, and is proud that she was recently presented with a 2019 Artist Fellowship Award by the State of Illinois in Ethnic and Folk Arts.
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Jake Charron
Jake Charron is a much sought after touring and recording musician for various styles of music, collaborating with artists around the world on piano and guitar. Since graduating from the University of Western Ontario with an honours degree in Kinesiology, Jake has pursued music, and had the privilege of performing with a long list of award-winning musicians. Jake has been touring with Liz Carroll, Troy MacGillivray, Shane Cook, and The East Pointers.
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With multiple Canadian Folk Music Awards, as well as Juno and ADISQ nominations, Genticorum have earned a reputation as a leading voice in the evolution of Québécois traditional music. Seamlessly melding fiddle, flute, accordion, guitar, foot percussion, and voices, they have quickly earned international recognition for bringing out the poetry and nuance of French Canada’s old song and step-dance tunes. Known for their unbridled energy, their musicianship and their magnetic stage presence, the trio – founding members Pascal Gemme (fiddle) and Yann Falquet (guitar), and Nicholas Williams (flute, accordion) – has won over audiences on world, traditional, folk and Celtic music stages for over 20 years.
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Informed by decades of field work in traditional percussive dances, and heavily influenced by some of County Clare’s greatest Set dancers and their unique “battering” style, Siobhan’s work as a performer and educator has taken her to stages and institutions around the world. She has been privileged to collaborate with renowned music and dance artists such as Nuala Kennedy, Nic Gareiss, Tony DeMarco, Steve Cooney, Sandy Silva, Kieran Jordan, and many more.