On Sunday gone, Easter Sunday, I was working away late when I realised it was that time when I needed to leave the house if […]

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Speaking of The Kelihans (when talking about Bloomsday) I’ve just noticed that they’ve changed the songs on their MySpace page.
The four songs you get to […]

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On Saturday June 16, 2007, Browne’s Irish Market & Deli are having their 120th Anniversary Street Fair.
Brownes’ on St Patrick’s Day is such a […]

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On Thursday, April 12, 2007, GLAOCH AN FIACH DUBH (Call of the Raven) will be playing traditional Irish music from 7-9 pm at O’Malley’s Irish […]

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Steven Soltis, the manager of The Tossers, tells me that the band are currently on tour until May 19, 2007 when they play in Springfield, […]

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On Thursday 19th, April, 2007, bouzouki greats Roger Landes and Chipper Thompson are performing in Kansas City at Delahunt’s Cafe &.
It’s a 7:30pm scheduled start […]

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Irish blood, English heart, Spanish Liver, Italian Sausage. Steven Patrick Morrissey is coming to Kansas City, Missouri. Oh, and St Louis.
Devious, truculent and unreliable; words […]

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The next few gigs for The Lucky Charms will be in Leavenworth, Kansas. I think I have them on the Events Calendar but here’s […]

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O’Malley’s Irish Pub and the Weston Brewing Company are celebrating a new annual event.
This Saturday, April 7, 2007, Brew Year’s Eve is marking the date […]

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The entry for one of the questions I am asked most frequently in Kansas City, FAIQ #8: What’s Your Favourite Irish Song? has had the […]

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On Saturday April 21 2007 Kansas City trio Tullamore are appearing at what is now the 5th annual Rogue’s Gallery Spring Hooley.
Tullamore are Mary Clavey, […]

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Andy Anderson is a regular attendee at performances by Eddie Delahunt, Brett Gibson & Gabriel Reyes, and on special nights you get to hear Andy’s […]

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From their festival performances in Kansas City many folk music fans in KC will be familiar with Ireland’s Fran Harper and Naoimh Penston.
Together with […]

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Rowan, the Celtic and World Music trio based in Lawrence, Kansas are performing TONIGHT, Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 7pm in Columbia, Missouri.
Rowan has been […]

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I think I gave the impression that the last time Damien Rice came to the KC area - actually Lawrence, Kansas - the best thing […]

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The Elders are featured in a Mary Houlihan article in the Chicago Sun Times today.
In advance of tonight and tomorrow’s gigs at Ballydoyle in Downer’s […]

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Gaelic Storm. Kiss Them, They’re Irish. What would you do if they were gay? Or Mongolian?
I thought I’d posted these music dates a while ago, […]

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Daniel O’Donnell is coming to Kansas City. And that’s not the only place in Missouri Daniel is playing.
I’ve already used up the old Daniel O’Donnell […]

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One of my favourite things about the state next door, Kansas, is its fences - particularly the barbed wire variety. It comes from cycling.
On Saturday, […]

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While I’m not slow to go on about the Kansas City metro area losing an Irish Pub through fire or just losing Irish pubs in […]

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