The Blarney Pilgrims

Murrells Inlet, SC

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Travels up to 90 miles

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Overview

The Blarney Pilgrims bring Irish music to the Grand Strand, with a mix of traditional Celtic fiddle tunes, Dubliners-style pub favorites, sea shanties, and pipe band music.


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Booking information

Price range: Contact for rates

Languages: English

Gig length: 60 - 180 minutes

What to expect

The Blarney Pilgrims focus on the pub favorites, trad-style instrumentals, and sea-shanties with bagpipe tunes and storytelling mixed throughout. Crowd engagement is highly encouraged, (see “Wild Rover” and “Old Dun Cow”), and a guest singer from the crowd has been known to join us a time or two!

About

The Blarney Pilgrims consist of:

John E. - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
John P. - Fiddle, Vocals
Liz S. - Fiddle, Mandolin, Banjo
Danny S. - Bagpipes, Tin Whistle, Bodhran

Set list

Whiskey in the Jar
Black Velvet Band
Leave Her Johnny
Bluenose
Wild Rover
Farewell to Nova Scotia
Old Dun Cow
Come Out Ye Black and Tans
I’ll Tell Me Ma
Kesh/Morrison’s/Swallowtail (jigs)
McAlpine’s Fusilliers
Leaving of Liverpool
The Mermaid
Drunken Sailor
Maggie in the Wood/Sean Ryan’s/Denis Murphy’s (polkas)
Rambles of Spring
Mary Ellen Carter
Barrett’s Privateers
Minstrel Boy/Let Erin Remember
Irish Pub Song
Harvest Home/Liverpool Hornpipe/Off to California (hornpipes)
Fields of Athenry
Lover’s Wreck
The Maid Behind the Bar/Drowsy Maggie
Dirty Old Town
Star of the County Down
Tim Finnegan’s Wake
Santianno
Blarney Pilgrim
Galway Girl
Rolling Down to Old Mauai
Road to Lisdoonvarna/O’Keefe’s Slide
Red is the Rose
Streams of Whiskey
Ashokan Farewell
Humours of Glendart/Have a Drink for Me
Foggy Dew
The Worst Day Since Yesterday
The Holy Ground
Wild Mountain Thyme
The Streets of New York
A Nation Once Again
ADD-ONS:
Raglan Road
Danny Boy
Irish Rover
Town I Loved So Well
Molly Malone
Four Green Fields
Mairi’s Wedding
Rose Tattoo
The Scotsman
Seven Nights in Eire
Grace
The Moonshiner
A trove of traditional bagpipe and fiddle tunes…

Influences and inspiration

The Dubliners
Makem & Clancy
The Pogues
Flogging Molly
The Chieftains

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