Philadelphia Ceili Group

Special Concert May 16 - get your tickets now!

Téada in Concert

Saturday May 16th, 2009. 8:30 pm,

The Commodore Barry Club (The Irish Center) 6815 Emlen St, Philadelphia PA 215-248-0502

Tickets are $20 and $18 for Group members at the door on the night of the concert Commodore Barry Club; (215) 843 805

Advance tickets are available online at www.philadelphiaceiligroup.org

Special workshops will be held on Saturday May 16th. Registration and more information can be found at www.philadelphiaceiligroup.org

Téada (pronounced "tay-da," meaning "strings" in Irish) are one of Irish music's hottest young talents, preserving the timeless energy and expressive force of traditional jigs, reels and hornpipes. With three acclaimed albums out on Compass Records, Living Tradition Magazine calls Téada "brilliant young musicians who present Irish music as it really is: the joy of it, the full breadth and depth of it, the power and pace of it."

Oisín Mac Diarmada - fiddle Damien Connelly - button accordion Damien Stenson - flutes Seán Mc Elwain - bouzouki/guitar Tristan Rosenstock - bodhrán Téada, now firmly established as one of Irish music's leading exponents on the international world music stage, continues to be driven by a fascination with the timeless, expressive force of traditional tunes inherited from previous generations of musicians. Since 2001, when the freshly-formed band landed a spot on the innovative Irish television show Flosc, Téada, has evolved to frequent headline performances at major music festivals throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Israel and Australia. A notable highlight was a headlining appearance to a 30,000-audience in Brittany during 2006, a year which also saw the band launch a hugely successful CD/DVD 'Inné Amárach', released by Gael Linn and Compass Records. With lush Irish orchestration, Téada, meaning "strings" in the Irish language revels in the vibrant traditional music of Ireland, deftly playing up its structural intricacies while preserving the timeless energy of the reels, jigs, hornpipes, and other lesser-known tunes in the repertoire.

Irish Traditional Music Concert on Saturday - See You There!

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Pat O’Connor and Eoghan O’Sullivan in Concert

8:00 pm, Tickets $15.00, Ceili Group Members $13.00, The Irish Center (The Commodore Barry Club) 6815 Emlen St. Philadelphia, 19119

more information at www.philadelphiaceiligroup.org

PAT O'CONNOR comes from Ennis in County Clare and has been playing music all his life. As a child he studied piano-accordion, banjo, mandolin and bouzouki, before finally settling on the fiddle as his weapon of choice. Fans of traditional music may have run across Pat's first solo CD THE GREEN MOUNTAIN, featuring his unhurried brand of fiddle playing ... simply lovely in its simplicity and genuineness. His second CD release, HUMOURS OF DERRYBEHA, very much in the same vein, consists mostly of solo tracks and a couple of tasty duets with concertina and flute. To hear Pat play is to experience the intangible and elusive "lonesome touch" of County Clare fiddling.

EOGHAN O'SULLIVAN is a talented musician from Mitchelstown, in County Cork and has been playing flute and accordion since he was six. Regarded as one of Ireland's finest young accordionists, Eoghan has recorded THE SMOKY CHIMNEY (with Kerry fiddler Gerry Harrington), a classic CD of traditional Irish music from that magical area on the Cork-Kerry border known as Sliabh Luachra (pronounced Shleeve Lew-cra). Together, Eoghan and Pat play the “pure drop” of Irish traditional music, and this promises to be a very special evening