Seamus Kennedy - A Weekend in the Burg!! February 16, 2007

Seamus Kennedy, originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been entertaining audiences throughout the United States for the past 32 years; and in Ireland with his tour groups. With a ready wit and a vast store of songs, his audiences range from Popes and presidents to bartenders and bricklayers, from college students to kindergartners.

Seamus Kennedy has the repertoire and the ability to make you forget your cares for a while, so relax and enjoy yourself. He encourages the crowd to sing along to silly lyrics and daft ditties or act out the choruses of children's songs. When he plays a lively Irish jig or a reel, Seamus will often coax someone to jump up and dance to the music of his guitar or bodhrán. His audience participation songs and tongue-twisters have amused the ablest of participants and the nimblest of tongues.

Seamus has an endless supply of rib-tickling jokes, stories and one liners which can leave an audience breathless from laughing so hard.

But the Irish have their serious side too, and when Seamus performs one of the more somber ballads such as Tommy Sands' "There Were Roses" or Pete St. John's "Dublin In The Rare Old Times" you can hear a pin drop as the words sink in (although it might be difficult on Friday night with The Great Guinness Toast).

Seamus' greatest influences have been the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, the Dubliners' Luke Kelly, and the Irish Rovers, so it is no surprise to find many songs that they made famous, such as "The Wild Colonial Boy", "The Wild Rover," or "The Black Velvet Band" in his performance. So come and enjoy the music and mirth of one of Ireland's most popular exports - Seamus Kennedy!

Cover $5.00 at Door both Nights.

Official Website: http://www.harpandfiddle.com