Skipper’s Alley
Sat, March 17, 2018 at 8:00 PM EDT
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Add dinner to your ticket for $12.00! Our Lobby and Marquee Lounge (upstairs) will open at 6:00 p.m. for a casual buffet dinner of traditional Irish fare, including shepherd’s pie, braised cabbage, soda bread and drink of your choice. Limited to 100 tickets. Auditorium doors will open at 7:00 p.m. to start seating for the concert. Curtain is 8:00 p.m.
Skipper’s Alley are a modern Irish folk band with an old-school approach. Their influences range from folk revival bands such as Planxty and The Bothy Band to rare, experimental solo players like Tommie Potts and Séamus Ennis.
Once described as “a young Irish ensemble who look like a punk band and sound like The Chieftains” Skipper’s Alley specialise in gritty, high-octane Irish dance tunes on Uilleann Pipes, Whistles, Fiddle, Bodhrán, Bouzouki, Flute and Harp, with occasional detours into the dark, sombre melodies of the Irish song tradition.
Since forming in 2013 Skipper’s Alley have garnered wide critical praise, appeared on national and international TV, and toured on four continents.
Write-ups include The Irish Times (★★★★), The Living Tradition, Folk
Radio UK, Folk World, and Celtic Music Radio (★★★★★). TV appearances
include S4C’s ‘Lorient’ as well as RTÉs ‘Fleadh!’ and The Late Late Show. Festival appearances include Electric Picnic (Ireland), Festival Interceltique de Lorient (France), The Stan Rogers Folk Festival (Canada), Spring Fest (India) and The Dayton Ohio Irish Fest (USA).
In 2014, Skipper’s Alley’s released their self-titled debut album under the production of Trevor Hutchinson (Lúnasa, The Waterboys, Sharron Shannon).
