A Winter’s Night Barbary: Black Irish Band
Saturday, January 16th
7:30pm
The City Hotel, Historic Columbia State Park
22768 Main Street Columbia, CA
Dress up and celebrate the Wild Gold Rush!
Time period Saloon Music from the 1800s.
$10.00 Cover Please call (209)- 532-1486 to RSVP.
Most of the nights music selections come from the band’s latest 25th album release, “Give us All Yer Whiskey”, and the bands famous “Dark Ocean” album. The songs will be performed on time-period instruments and without any sound system.
Those who come will get a real 1800s Gold Rush feeling when they walk into the historic City Hotel, with music from the days of old. The use of the term Barbary’ comes
from the famous San Francisco water front gambling period of the California Gold Rush, known as the Barbary Coast.
The public is asked to dress in time-period garb if possible and sing along with the classic saloon songs.
BLACK IRISH BAND:
When you take Celtic, Spanish, and Italian Music, and mix it up, you get the true nature of the Black Irish Band. For twenty-six years this band has created an original sound that no other band has. With over 600 concert performances to date and airplay around the world, the band has kept very busy spreading their brand of progressive folk music to a large audience. Performing both traditional and original music the band is very focused on presenting acoustic music in a very exciting up-beat way that appeals to all ages. The band has written and recorded 96 original songs that appear on many of the bands twenty-five CD recordings. Many of the original works written by the band are based on Celtic history.
Hailing from the historic Gold Rush Country of America, the four members Black Irish Band of twenty–six years, have a musical style that is as timeless as the rugged landscape of the west, a tribute to the people whose lives were spent building the world we now take for granted. The band has a large compliment of traditional maritime and railroad music, as well as ethnic tunes in their repertoire. They excel at Irish & Scottish, Italian, and American folk music with an assortment of original songs and traditional western ballads. The bands musical style captures the spirit of the immigrants of this land, the men and women who tamed the Wild West.
