The Philadelphia Ceili Group
Presents a Concert of Traditional Irish Music Featuring
Slide
Saturday February 28th 8.30pm
The Commodore Barry Club, http://www.theirishcenter.com
Carpenter Lane and Emlen St, West Mt Airy, Pa 19119 (215)843 8051
Tickets are $15, $13 for Ceili members. click here for Advance tickets: Download concert-tickets.html
Hailed by Ireland’s RTE, Radio 1 as ‘the future of Irish music,’ the four original, greatly gifted musicians & composers of Slide first came together in 2000 to play at The Cobblestone in Dublin, a night that shook that venue from brick to rafter & has since become known as ‘The Wobble in the Cobble.’ Still with the band today, these four musicians had accumulated numerous awards for individual musicianship; Aoghan Lynch on concertina & whistles, whose cousins are box maestros Seamus & Brendan Begley, was Ireland television station TG4’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year in 1999, Eamonn De Barra on flute, whistles, keyboards & bodhran was winner of that same award in 2000, Daire Bracken was the original fiddler of the famed ensemble Danu & Mick Broderick on bouzouki, cittern & mandolin is a member of notable musical family from East Galway, of which flute player & composer Vincent is perhaps the best known (at the moment). These four recorded to much ballyhoo Slide’s first album, ‘The Flying Pig,’ which led to be their named by Irish Music Magazine as ‘Best Traditional Newcomers’ in 2001, which in doing so declared, They can sing, they can write, they can dance across fingerboards and piano keys, buttons and bows and by crikey can they play.’ With the recent addition of former lead singer of De Dannan & LiveIreland.com’s Male Vocalist of the Year, Andrew Murray from the island of Inishbofin, Co. Galway, Slide are poised to become a tour de force on the world’s Celtic music stages. Winners of the ‘Young Musicwide Award’ in 2006, whose panel of judges was led by Donal Lunny, who wrote, ‘This band is taking Irish music to a new place. Their music will touch people far beyond the realm of traditional music.’ From mesmeric trance to nail biting energy, Slide entice the listener on a journey of musical exploration which will undoubtedly leave you on a high while taking you from sorrowful reflections to points of high spirited in between. As John O’Regan in Folk Roots observed, ‘There’s plenty of action and flamboyance in Slide’s music… takes the Dervish/Bothy Band/De Dannan formula and turns it 360 degrees on its head successfully merging youthful arrogance and swagger with traditional expertise.’ By whatever measurement or calculation –Slide rule! For more, visit; www.slide.ie The Philadelphia Ceili Group is an all volunteer non profit 501c, educational organization run by a nine member board dedicated to the promotion of Irish traditional music,dance and culture of Ireland. It was founded in 1958 and has run a yearly festival of Irish Traditional music in early September since 1974.
