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Barleyjuice. Barleyjuice is an American musical group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formed originally in 1998, the group began as a side project for musicians Keith Swanson and Kyf Brewer, who met as bagpipers in the Loch Rannoch Pipes & Drums of Pineville, Pennsylvania. Barleyjuice's focus was to perform traditional Irish and Scottish songs ...
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James Conway is an Irish-American musician based in Chicago, Illinois, and is particularly known for playing traditional Irish music on the harmonica and tin whistle. [1] He also plays guitar, bodhran, and plays folk and country blues music. [2] Jason Ricci said of Conway's playing, "This guy is the king of tongue switching (playing out of both ...
Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Jay Pritzker Pavilion, also known as Pritzker Pavilion or Pritzker Music Pavilion, is a bandshell in Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is located on the south side of Randolph Street and east of the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District.
The Wolfe Tones. Derek Warfield The Wolfe Tones are an Irish rebel music band that incorporate Irish traditional music in their songs. Formed in 1963, they take their name from Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double meaning of a wolf tone – a spurious sound that can affect instruments in the ...
v. t. e. The South Side Irish is the large Irish-American community on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. After 1945, a large-scale movement to the suburbs occurred because of white flight and the steady upward social mobility of the Irish. [ 1 ] Although their population has spread out, Irish Americans continue to make up the majority of the ...
The Drovers were a Chicago-based rock band whose original songs were influenced by Irish traditional dance music. Founded by Flautist Kevin Moran in 1988, the group recorded four albums and soundtrack music for the motion pictures, Backdraft [ 1] and Blink. [ 2] Songwriters Mike Kirkpatrick (guitar) and Dave Callahan (bass, vocals) drew from ...
Chicago is also well known for its soul music. In the early 1930s, Gospel music began to gain popularity in Chicago due to Thomas A. Dorsey 's contributions at Pilgrim Baptist Church. In the 1980s and 1990s, heavy rock, punk and hip hop also became popular in Chicago. Orchestras in Chicago include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera ...