BLACK IRISH BAND- 36 years in the making and 35 CD albums of original and traditional music. Celtic, American, and original. Known for their rich music stories of Celtic History of their native land but also stories about the Celtic Experance in the 1800 American West. Featured songs about miners, railroaders, sailors, and firefighters. A band too hard to box into a single catagory, the Black Irish Band is original in every way, but with firey fiddle, banjo, melodeon, and bass and guitar, and in this four member group, everyone sings. The band has been featured at many historical events celebrating American, and Scottish & Irish History
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Languages: English, Spanish
Gig length: 45 - 120 minutes
One of the most exciting up lifting amazing bands- a one of a kind group that is original as well as traditional. Folks will want to get up to dance and have the time of their live!!! This band can rock the house, no dull sit-down band here- all the members stand and get the crowds up to make them lifelong fans of the Black Irish Band.
The Black Irish Band has been together for 36 years and has produced 34 CD albums, and has performed a total of 700 shows. The band met on the set of "Back to the Future 3, cast as the Hill Valley Band. The band has over 200 songs in their play list including Tradional Irish tunes as well as ballads. The band also performs up beat more modern works by the Pouges, Dropkick Murphy's, and Flogging Molly. The band is backed up with dozens of beautiful love song selections of wedding and anniversaries, both Celtic, Itailian, and American Standards. All the musicians in the band also can perform rock & roll classics from the Beatles to Beach Boys, and "Play that Funky Music White Boy" to Shipping Up to Boston.
The band performs as a four member group, but also has a drummer for more dance concert type settings. The instruments in the band are- Accordion, Mandolin, Fiddle, Banjo, Guitar, Stand-up Bass, Trumpet, and all members sing with 4- part harmonies- "A Wall of Sound".
The band will dress for all occations including -Pirate, Celtic, Wild West, Ren-Faire, as well as street dress code, and wedding formal. The band also has it's own sound equipment, for crowds under 200 folks (extra charge) the band can perform with no sound, and can move around for weddings and cocktail parties.
Headline performances include:
100 & 125th Celebration of the Whiste Pass & Yukon Railroad- Alaska/ Canada
150th Celebration of the Golden Spike- National park Service- Promontory Utah
Irish Trades Faire- Ballylongford, Ireland
World Music & Beer festival- Singapore
100th Anniversary of the United States Forest Service- Washington D.C. Smithsonian Museum
John F. Kennedy Center- Washington D.C.
Railfair 99- California State Railroad Museum
The Great Steam-up- Nevada State Railroad Museum
The Marin Irish Faire- San Rafel, California
The Calaveras Celtic Faire- Angels Camp, California
Columbia River Maritime Museum- Astoria, Oregon
Bodie Day- Bodie State Park, California
Celtic Nations Festival- Vale Colorado
Texas Irish Fair- Forth Worth, Texas
Las Vegas Age of Chivalry- Las Vegas, Nevada
Longs Peak Irish Scots Faire- Longs Peak, Colorado
Huntington Art Museum- Los Angeles
St. John's Concerts- Billings Montana
100th Annivesary of Yukon Gold Strike, Skagway, Alaska
and about 679 performances more----added on, including weddings, wakes, parties, retirements, and historic events, including, the famous actor- Robert Mitchum's last birthday party.
We have are own sound that can cover about 200 folks- anymore than that, we would need support from. The band can move around and perform without sound for smaller groups under 200 also, which is perfect for weddings and cocktail parties. The band needs to be covered however from the sun, because of the instruments in general, unless they entertaining around a group.
We ask folks to go to Spotify, Pandora, or Apple, to gain a listing of the bands songs, for the band has over 200 songs out there on recordings, plus all the fun Rock & Roll/ Country- Cover tunes, they all know as a band. Black Irish Band - Spotify.
The Dubliners- Clancy Brothers- Kingston Trio- Stan Rogers- Gordon Lightfoot- John Denver- Dropkick Murphy's- Flogging Molly- Johnny Cash.
For groups bigger than 200- we would need a 10 track mixing board, amp, 4 mains, and 4 monitors.
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