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The Black Brothers Band

Continue your St. Patrick's festivities with a special concert by the Black Brothers Band that will highlight songs commemorating the centennial of the 1916 Easter Rising. The outstanding outfit is led by the charismatic charmers from Dublin, Shay and Michael Black, the singing siblings from Ireland's first family of song, The Black Family, which includes their sisters Mary and Frances and brother Martin. They have been hailed in the Irish Echo as 'one of the most impressive groups of Irish singers to be found anywhere... exquisite, exhilarating and nothing short of thrilling.' Raising sibling rivalry to revelry, Shay and Michael adroitly accompany their sheer joy of singing with banjo, cittern and guitar with the Black and Black Minstrel Show also featuring fiddle virtuoso Bobbi Nikles and Eamonn Flynn on accordion and keyboards. The concert will also include traditional Irish ballads, Dublin street songs, music hall ditties, contemporary compositions, jigs and reels, all interspersed with hearty Irish humor that invariably have audiences smiling broadly and joining in on the choruses.

The concert will be preceded by a potluck from 6:30pm.

For more info, sights and sounds, visit www.black-brothers.com.