Join us this coming Monday December 14th from 9pm at Iona 180 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY (L train to Bedford Ave) for the session this week led by the ringing strings of Miss Amy Beshara.
IONA SCOTTISH SESSION
playing the traditional music of Scotland, Cape Breton and Ireland in Brooklyn, NY
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Midsummer Burns – Monday June 22nd at 8pm – Last night of the season
‘The bees, rejoicing o’er their summer toils,
Unnumber’d buds an’ flow’rs’ delicious spoils’
Join us next Monday June 22nd for the inaugural MIDSUMMER BURNS NIGHT at Iona. It’s all about the thrumming, free wheelin’, summer-lovin’ poetry and songs of the Bard, so we’ll be singing, declaiming, bagpiping, and raging around in our cutty sarks, dressing droddums and kissing barefit carlins. From 8pm at Iona, 180 Grand St, Brooklyn 11211.
A great cast of characters will be in attendance – Glenfiddich Champion fiddler, Calum Pasqua, Young Wolfetone Andrew Sharp, piper JR Strauss, Burns Scholar, Professor Thomas Keith and the Iona session band. Our Friends at Laphroaig will be offering tastes of their fine whiskies and there will be specials on Belhaven Ale and Crabbies Alcoholic Ginger Beer!
June Calendar at Iona – Mondays at 9pm
June dates – 1st and 8th Andrew Forbes (he’s off to be a traveling minstrel for the summer), 15th Amy Beshara, 22nd Andrew Coileáin Sharp, Calum Michael and JR Strauss for the Midsummer Burns along with Thomas Keith as MC of Poetry. CD is being manufactured and should be available for the 22nd, though we’ll wait for the CD release party til later in the year.
Monday May 25th – Amy Beshara leads Iona Scottish Session
Tonight the graceful and talented fiddler Miss Amy Beshara will lead us in some Memorial Day Cape Breton style tunes from 9pm
Iona
180 Grand Street
Brooklyn NY 11211
Monday March 23rd – Special Guest, Fiddler Amy Beshara
Tonight! Monday March 23rd – stomp into spring with some live and kicking Scottish tuneage led by the rockin’ fiddle of Miss Amy Beshara. From 9pm
Iona
180 Grand St
Brooklyn NY 11211
Monday January 5th from 9pm – Happy New Year from Iona!
Well we might be on a diet, but there’s unlimited tunes to enjoy tonight at Iona! Come on down to listen or play at Iona, 180 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn – L, M and N trains.
Cape Breton Scots Ben Miller and Anita MacDonald host the Iona Hogmanay Party Monday December 29th at 9pm
Get your New Year Celebrations started tonight Monday 29th at the pre-Hogmanay party at Iona, 180 Grand St, Brooklyn NY – with the sounds of top notch pipes and fiddle duo Ben Miller & Anita MacDonald. After attending the piping program at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, Ben’s now finishing his PhD at the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh and Anita’s an amazing step dancer and fiddler from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia who’s performed all around the NE and at the Celtic Colours International Festival . It’s going to be great night with two amazing tradition bearers.
Session tonight – Monday 6th October – start of live recordings at Iona next Monday 13th
Tonight! Monday 6th October – Iona Scottish Session – we’re starting up the live recordings next week, so time to air that 19 strathspey, 700 reel set you’ve been polishing. 180 Grand Street Brooklyn from 9pm – L, G and M trains
Tonight Monday 29th September, Iona Session from 9pm
This Monday and all the Mondays join us for Scottish tunes at Iona, 180 Grand Street, Brooklyn from 9pm
New 2014-15 season kicks off – Iona session is back Monday September 8th
Summer travels are done….Come down and see us at Iona, we’ve been everywhere man! Tunes ahoy this coming Monday 8th September at Iona bar 180 Grand St Brooklyn with the whole crew.
