Bohola
Bohola are based in Chicago. And gigs oustide of Chicago seem to be rare. There’s the odd Irish festival, and university appearance, and you’ve a better chance of seeing them in St Louis than in Kansas City.
For the last couple of years their spoken CD A Childhood Christmas has been an essential part of my family Christmas here in KC, but their more regular stuff, like on Bohola 4 is a wonderful powerhouse of virtuoso accordion playing along with the fiddle and the bouzar (bass bouzouki & guitar hybrid).
Accordion player Jimmy Keane has performed and recorded with some of the best Irish musicians around including Liz Carroll, Michael Flatley, Mick Moloney, Eileen Ivers and Seamus Egan. That’s pedigree. Before Bohola 5 is released, go ahead and listen to some tracks on their website.
Or go to Oklahoma. On Tuesday, March 28, 2006, Bohola play Herod Hall Auditorium.
It’s on the campus of Northwestern Oklahoma State University - which I grant you is bit beyond your casual evening’s drive from Kansas City, but I’ve been looking at maps.
And just like on their recent trip to the North Texas Irish Fest, Kansas City is being skipped over. This is a plea for them to play Kansas City some time.
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