April 13
7:30 p.m.
Lunasa
Named for an ancient Celtic harvest festival in honor of the Irish god Lugh, patron of the arts, Lúnasa is indeed a gathering of some of the top musical talents in Ireland. Its members have helped formed the backbone of some of the greatest Irish groups of the decade. Folk Roots magazine has rightly termed them an “Irish music dream team.”
Over the course of their six albums, Lúnasa have consistently taken traditional elements of acoustic Irish music and deconstructed them, welding those elements to bold new rhythmic frameworks that elevate the band’s virtuosity and create a thrilling new fusion all their own. The band’s lineup -- Sean Smyth (fiddles, whistles), Kevin Crawford (flutes, whistles), Cillian Vallely (Uilleann pipes, whistles), and Trevor Hutchinson (double bass) -- is capable of a wide range of textural variations
“Hottest Irish acoustic group on the planet” — Irish Voice
Tickets:
$22 adults • $19 Friends of WRL or students w/ ID • $11 under 16
Band's website
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See Lunasa's performance in Paris before 14,000 people this past St. Patrick's Day. (And you won't need large screens to see the boys up close in our Theatre!):
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