Two former Kansas City Irish Festival performers are joining forces tonight in Omaha, Nebraska. Mick Doyle of Ellis Island, an Omaha Irish Band, will be […]

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See all the Details of the 2006 Weston Irish Fest >> HERE
Festival favourites of Kansas City, The Young Dubliners have announced that they are playing […]

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The location of the after-gig session following the Roger Landes & Chipper Thompson looks like it will NOT be the Westsider, and, in the best […]

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There’s a few things of interest to Irish folk going on today:
Operation Breakthrough Fundraiser: (6:00pm)
Win Wine Cabinet by Elders’ Ian Byrne
Silent Auction of Private […]

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You’re not sure about Irish Traditional Music, but you like The Cure. Perhaps like Luka you like Irish music, but you’ve heard enough of it. […]

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Kansas City’s The Elders are scheduled to play Irish pub Paddy O’Quigley’s of Leawood, Kansas on Friday April 28. (9:00pm)
No more information yet on the […]

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UPDATE - Possible location change: Final news on this will be announced at the concert.
Kelly from the MVFS has just confirmed what the bould Delahunt […]

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The Missouri Valley Folklife Society are presenting one of those special gigs that only they can do. Tomorrow night, April 21, Irish bouzouki masters Roger […]

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I didn’t forget to tell you about Bob’s and Eddie’s weekly gigs at them Irish pubs of WJ McBride’s and O’Dowd’s on the Plaza, this […]

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This Sunday, Irish soul band, The Hothouse Flowers can be seen at The Tivoli.
The Tivoli in Brisbane, Australia, that is. I had a friend […]

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KC Celtic Folk band Tullamore have announced that due to schedule conflicts they will NOT now be playing Governor Stumpy’s in Waldo, this Friday, April […]

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-What did he die of?
-He died of a Tuesday
Sorry. Tuesday in Irish (Gaelic/Gaeilge) is Dé Máirt. That’s Dé as in Daniel Day Lewis, and Máirt […]

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I found that review of the Christy Moore gig with brother Luka Bloom in support that I told you about a while back.
It took […]

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The Elders are geting ready to announce details of their tour of Ireland in March of next year.
In The Elders forum, Ian’s brother Paul […]

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Aaron Svoboda from the Wild Clover Band has made available his journal of the Trip to Ireland he and his wife went on last year. […]

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Mad Theory, the Irish music project of Tomás Mulcahy and Ken Hayes, have announced that The Fuchsia Band, who play Kansas City’s Irish Fest in […]

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One life, with each other, sisters, brothers, from U2’s One is Britain’s favourite lyric, according to a music channel VH1 poll.
Meanwhile yesterday’s Kansas City Star […]

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Young Bodhran player, Conor Murray, has published the first extensive biography of The Clancy Brothers, titled The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem & Robbie O’Connell: […]

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Live Irish music this weekend in the KC Region:
Friday
Eddie Delahunt from Ireland plays Mike Kelly’s Westsider of Westport Rd @ 6pm
Tullamore KC Celtic Folk trio […]

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Speaking of the 1916 Rising, there is a commemorative concert to mark its 90th anniversary in St Louis on April 24.
It features The Xiles who […]

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