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A Celebration of All Things Irish - Carollo-Burke-Grasso
Warm up for St. Patrick's Day with a celebration of all things green. Feel the lilt of jigs and reels from the land of great storytellers and characters. Tunes that reach from the 167th Century to the present, performed by a trio of seasoned, passionate players of Irish music - Eliot Grasso (pipes and flute), Dan Carollo (guitar), and Susan McCroskey Burke (fiddle). Special guests Richard Fynn and Dawn Madsen (vocals and Irish dance). This threesome brings brilliant nuances to Irish dance music, electrifying a blend of the tradition's cherished reels and jigs with cutting- edge sound of newly imagined and original tunes. Grasso, a uniquely acclaimed Uillean pipe, flute player, and guitarist Dan Carollo have for years recorded the finest in Irish music and are joined now with fiddler Susan McCroskey Burke. The sound is heart-lifting.
About Eliot Grasso:
www.eliotgrasso.com
Eliot Grasso is considered one of the finest uilleann pipers in the history of Irish music in America. He has performed in North America and Europe, and has played for the National Endowment for the Arts Awards, the National Heritage Awards, Glasgow's International Piping Festival, Piping Live! Armagh's William Kennedy International Piping Festival, and at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He has also appeared on NPR for "A Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keillor . Eliot Grasso currently serves on the faculty of the University of Oregon, Gutenberg College, and the John G. Shedd Institute for the Performing Arts.
About Susan Burke:
http://susanburkemusic.com/
After three decades' immersion in Cape Breton and other Celtic musical styles, Susan Burke has developed a commanding repertoire of traditional music. Playing for contra dances and Irish ceilidhs coast to coast, she has a spirited and affecting style, and is heard with such bands as DOWRY, Red Crow, Swinging on a Star, and MacSorleys' Reeks. Among her other recording credits are "Celtic Garden" by Bronn Journey and "Gypsy Supper" by William and Alene Bertman. Her debut solo project, " Journey Home," is a Celtic odyssey, touching on the traditions of Scotland, Cape Breton, and Ireland, among others.
About Dan Carollo:
www.celtograss.com
Dan is a acoustic finger style guitarist who performs a blend of contemporary and traditional Irish/American tunes. His music was featured in the soundtrack for the independent film "The Dark Horse" by Seattle film director Cornelia Duryée Moore. Dan's CD release "Miles from Dublin" was recently added to the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin, Ireland and listed in the January/February 2007 issue of "The Journal of Music in Ireland". The BBC One documentary program "Britain's Lost Routes", featured music from Dan's CD "The Communion of Saints" in 2012. Dan Carollo currently resides in Sammamish, WA.
"Grasso achieves a startling depth, consistency and clarity of tone..."
- The Irish Times
"Carollo is a wonderful guitarist whose style incorporates the techniques developed by many of today's finest folk and new age players while at the same time hewing to traditional fingerpicking and Celtic and American sources."
-- - Bill Fisher, Victory Music Review
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LocationTim Noah Thumbnail Theater (View)
1211 4th Street
Snohomish, WA 98272
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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