Something called Shamrockin’ was a great success.
From the Tullintrain West Pipe Band to Seven Nations to the Elders. 7N’s Kirk MacLeod told me he […]

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How many students are majoring in bagpipes at any American university or college today, would you say? I’d say none. Go on, ask me. Well, […]

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Born in Dublin just in time to see Luke Skywalker learn how to kill the leader of the opposition, Jonathan Rhys Meyers grew up fairly […]

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You know that Bernard Shaw is the only person to have won a Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar for best Screenplay, but who […]

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You know we like our Bono moments on Irish KC (even if some struggle), like with Sam and with Liam, well the sad passing of […]

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NOTE: see here for Glengarry Bhoys 2007 visit to Kansas City, MO
Folk roots band Glengarry Bhoys, from Ontario in Canada, of Scots Irish background, play […]

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As music festival season gears up, Luka Bloom is featured in today’s New York Daily News, in somewhat philosophical mood as he talks about security […]

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The Elders have announced that they have finished mixing their brand new CD. So you know new songs exist. And because they’re about to play […]

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Irish Music at the Westsider you get treated to every Friday by Eddie Delahunt & Gabriel Reyes - and sometimes more.
This Saturday from about […]

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-Are you jigging?
was what your mother would say to you when she suspected you of wanting to go to the toilet (uimhir a haon), but […]

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Kansas City bread-eater Tony has been eating my nana’s scones. Perhaps we can persuade Eddie to sell some Mexican bread with his coffee, if only […]

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Wherever you play music in the world, if you create strong songs that are conservative and typically guitar-based, then you’re likely to make a lot […]

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The current edition of NME has published its list as voted by its readers, of the greatest rock heroes of all time.
Headed by a […]

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Dé Céadaoin is ‘Wednesday’ as Gaeilge.
Dé Céadaoin is pronounced ‘day’ as in ‘Oh Happy Day’, and ‘Kay’ as in ‘Country Club Kay’ with ‘Dean’ as […]

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Bob Reeder plays in KCK by the Kansas Speedway and all that malarkey, at WJ McBrides Irish Pub & Restaurant TONIGHT at 7:00pm, because in […]

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Speaking of Seven Nations and of Milwaukee’s Irish Fest, for one week in the Western Caribbean (Mexico, Belize, Guatemala) you can sail with Seven Nations, […]

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If you touch music you should have your place on MySpace, because everybody else does. The Wild Clover Band have now joined the MySpace ranks, […]

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Teada have made the front cover of this month’s Irish Music magazine. Inside you’ll find an interview with Téada about being so much at home […]

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Eddie Delahunt, Irish musician extraordinaire plays WJ McBrides Irish Pub over there in KCK, ya know, near that place with all the stuffed deer, and […]

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The sun has started to shine in Kansas City, which always gets me down, so I’m thinking of winter. Christmas seems appropriate, and the 27th […]

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