The Hanifl Peforming Arts Center, White Bear Lake
Lúnasa’s inventive arrangement and bass driven grooves have steered Irish music into surprising and innovative territory. It’s a must see concert anytime of the year but especially as St Patrick’s Day approaches. It’s sure to get you into the festive Irish spirit. “Anybody who listens can’t help but find them contagious.” Billboard (USA). Lúnasa has been performing and has proven its mettle time and time again, having sold over a quarter of a million records and performed more than 2,000 shows in high profile concert venues across 36 countries.
The band is comprised of five members, Kevin Crawford, Trevor Hutchinson, Ed Boyd, Colin Farrell, and Cillian Vallely each playing a number of instruments, including flutes, low whistles, tin whistles, double bass, guitar, fiddle, and uilleann pipes. Lúnasa’s new studio album Cas is their first studio album in seven years and it is also their first recording featuring guest singers, all prominent artists that the band recorded and toured with over the years. These include Natalie Merchant and Mary Chapin Carpenter, top bluegrass singer/songwriter Tim O’Brien, Blues recording artist Eric Bibb and Daoiri Farrell, who recently won the BBC Radio 2 Folk contest. The critically acclaimed album “Cas” was described as “Brilliant with a capital B……a new feather in the cap of the talented and influential musicians we know and love as Lúnasa” – (Irish American News).
Hanifl Perfoming Arts Center, White Bear Lake
This concert is presented by TaLuk Presents and the Cossack Foundation with 100% of all proceeds will going directly to Doctors without Borders.
