Iona Scottish Session is BACK! Live music in the bar starts up next Monday. We’ve booked a stellar season of guests til Christmas starting with the high octane piping and fiddling of Elias Alexander Monday September 19th – tunes 9-12 – all welcome to play, sing and listen
Galen Fraser played an amazing show at last year’s Outlander Tartan Day party and now he’s bringing his musical mischief to Iona. Check out the new album here http://www.galenfraser.com/ and join us on Monday 9th, tunes from 9pm. Iona is at 180 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY – L train to Bedford Ave.
Here’s the lineup for the winter season at Iona. Last month we had a great night with the BBC filming the session for ‘Burns in America’. In December we’re delighted to have the acclaimed Gaelic singer, Christine Primrose with us on Monday Dec 12 for ‘Song Night’ also featuring our own Pamela Jean Agaloos,and then again on Sunday Dec 18th when the BBC will be in once again to record Christine and the session for a documentary about her life and work.Amy Beshara leads tonight Nov 14, fresh from her travels with Burning Bridget Cleary. Fiddler Liz Hanley leads Nov 21, if you haven’t seen her band Frogbelly and Symphony check them out live this week at the 11th St Bar on November 16th. Accordionist John Redmond will celebrate the release of his new CD, ‘Box Sets’ on Nov 28. Dec 5th it’s Kevin Crawford, flute man with Lunasa in to blow the lids off any remaining smokestacks.Hope you can join us tonight, or any Monday night for an evening of warm companionship and tunes.
So good we asked her back immediately! Come hear Liz sing and play some tunes with us this coming Monday May 23rd. Iona is at Grand and Bedford in Williamsburg and we get going around 9pm.
After last week’s fantastic night , this week we’ve got another pair of leaders – Elias Alexander on pipes, fiddles, song and Andrew Forbes the Jimi Hendrix of the pipes at Iona. Come join us for tunes from 9pm at Iona, 180 Grand Street, Brooklyn – Monday May 16th.
This week we’re playing on Thursday 17th not Monday 14th in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. The session will be from 6-9pm and fine fiddler Calum Pasqua is at the helm. Come on down for tunes and craic.
Calling all NY Trad Festers and Fiddle Hellions, ONE MORE NIGHT ! Tonight Monday 9th at Iona, top fiddle gent Calum Pasqua will be in to complete his Trad Week sandwich. Sleep’s for the weak.
IONA
180 Grand Street
Brooklyn NY 11211
Come join us to celebrate the release of ‘Island Wild’ the Iona Scottish Session CD at Jalopy Theatre and School of Music. We’ve invited our friends from some of the great traditional music sessions of New York to perform and then play for called Contra, Scottish and Irish dancing and invite YOU to come down for top night of performance and dancing to live music. No experience required – all the dances will be demonstrated.
A ceilidh is a grow-your-own night of music, singing, dancing and general merriment with fun intensified by liberal gargles of warming libations. Ours will have performance sets from representatives of some of the great NY sessions, and then dancing, with the performers forming the dance band. Mary Abdill is dance instructor and caller, and Glenfiddich champion fiddler, Calum Pasqua will lead the band.
Multi-instrumentalist and singer, Max Carmichael leads Iona tonight on guitar, low whistle, flute, bazouki and whatever else he can cram onto the table. Aided and abetted by pipes, fiddles and cheer – see you there tonight from 8.30pm
Iona
180 Grand Street
Brooklyn NY 11211
Iona Session – Monday September 21st – 8-11pm ! Get it while he’s hot – last chance to enjoy the triple threat multi-instrumental (Pipes, Whistle, Fiddle, Guitar) talents of Andrew Coileáin Sharp before he sets off for 2 months of touring with The Young Wolfe Tones.
Sunday night 20th at 8pm – we’re excited to welcome DAIMH to NYC – they’re playing the Rockwood Music Hall on the Bowery with Hannah Read.
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