The Currach (traditional Celtic music): 6-8:30pm Monthly live acoustic performance at Alt Brew https://www.altbrew.com/ 1808 WRIGHT ST  MADISON, WI 53704 608-352-3373  Old School traditional Celtic songs and tunes on fiddle, guitar, and bodhran. FREE SHOW!

The Currach (traditional Celtic music): 6-8:30pm Monthly live acoustic performance at Alt Brew https://www.altbrew.com/ 1808 WRIGHT ST  MADISON, WI 53704 608-352-3373  Old School traditional Celtic songs and tunes on fiddle, guitar, and bodhran. FREE SHOW!

Concert & Dessert Buffet

$15 suggested donation 

General public welcome

Andy Imbrie and Caroline McCaskey

Featuring Scottish fiddle and piano tunes, the musical saw, and Highland step dance demonstrations.

Bethany Ministry Center/Evangelical Free Church

301 Riverside Drive Madison 53704

Parking behind church and on side streets. Enter from parking lot.

Andy Imbrie (piano) began studying classical piano as a child and started playing for dances with the encouragement of Kim McGarrity and Barbara McOwen. He is the band leader for Reel of Seven, and plays regularly for Scottish country dancing, ceilidh dancing, and contra dances throughout the U.S. and Canada. He has been on music staff for several tours, including one in France, three to New Zealand and one to Scotland, Orkney, and the Shetland Islands. He has also been on staff at Asilomar and Pinewoods workshops and was honored to have been invited to teach piano accompaniment at the Boston Harbor Fiddle School and the Valley of the Moon Scottish fiddling school for several years. Andy was delighted to serve as music director for the TAC Summer School in 2019 and to be on staff at the International Branch workshop in Italy in 2022. 

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Caroline McCaskey (fiddle, saw) is the 2019 U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion and a two-time International Musical Saw Champion. A native daughter of the genre-bending West Coast music scene, she is equally at home in the traditional, improvisational and classical music worlds. In demand as a teacher and performer throughout North America and author of the AltStrings Fiddle Method, she holds degrees in music composition and performance, as well as Suzuki teaching certification in violin and cello. Caroline is a fiddler for the dance bands Tartan Suite, Reel of Seven and Greenwich Mean Time. She also performs regularly with Boston-based guitarist and banjo player Larry Unger, and with cellist Daniel Delaney as Secret Oaks, a jazz- and folk-inspired string duo.

Madison Pipes and Drums at Erin Snugs in Madison, WI.

The Pipe band will be playing sets for patrons from 6pm-8pm at Erin Snugs.

https://www.erinssnug.com/menus

4601 American Parkway, Madison, WI 53718

The Currach (traditional Celtic music): 5-7pm Live St. Pat's Happy Hour show at the Borough Beer Company https://www.theboroughmadison.com/ 444 S Park Street, Madison, WI 53715  (608) 467-2843  Come on down after the parade and celebrate with the Currach: Old School traditional Celtic songs and tunes on fiddle, guitar, and bodhran. FREE!

Join Madison Pipes and Drums while they perform during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Madison.

Parade starts at 1:30 pm. Route travels around the Wisconsin State Capitol.

https://www.stpatsmadison.org/home.asp

The Currach (traditional Celtic music): 8-11pm Celebrate St. Pat's with the Currach--our 17th Year at the Harmony! With the Slainte Irish Dancers. Old School traditional Celtic songs and tunes on fiddle, guitar, and bodhran. $10 cover.  https://harmonybarandgrill.com/  2201 Atwood Avenue, Madison, WI 53704  (608)-249-4333

Join the Madison Pipes and Drums at Grateful Shed in Wisconsin Dells.

The band will perform for patrons from 6pm-8pm.

1470 Wisconsin Dells Pkwy
Wisconsin Dells WI 53965

https://www.thegratefulsheds.com/

Madison Pipes and Drums at Erin Snugs in Madison, WI.

The Pipe band will be playing sets for patrons from 6pm-8pm at Erin Snugs.

https://www.erinssnug.com/menus

4601 American Parkway, Madison, WI 53718

The Currach (traditional Celtic music): 6-8:30pm Monthly live acoustic performance at Alt Brew https://www.altbrew.com/ 1808 WRIGHT ST  MADISON, WI 53704 608-352-3373  Old School traditional Celtic songs and tunes on fiddle, guitar, and bodhran. FREE SHOW!

The Currach (traditional Celtic music): 5-7pm Live acoustic Happy Hour show at Craftsman Table and Tap https://www.craftsmantableandtap.com/  6712 Frank Lloyd Wright Ave, Middleton, WI 53562 (608) 836-3988  Start St. Pat's weekend off with the Currach: Old School traditional Celtic songs and tunes on fiddle, guitar, and bodhran. FREE!

Killarney Blarney (Irish songs with a twist): St. Paddy's Sunday Funday - March 10th 3pm The Harmony Bar and Grill

Join us for an afternoon of Irish tunes dancing and fun!
Get your St. Patrick’s Week started with Killarney Blarney live at The Harmony Madison, 3pm Sunday March 10th.Sláinte!

https://www.killarneyblarney.com/music

https://www.facebook.com/events/356109004047761

The 56th Shamrock Club of Wisconsin St. Patrick’s Day Parade, presented by Miller Lite, returns on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at noon!

 The annual celebration of Milwaukee’s Irish heritage features over 100 Parade units including Irish dance groups, pipe and drum corps, local dignitaries and more.

*Come watch the Madison Pipes and Drums at the The 56th Shamrock Club of Wisconsin St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Milwaukee.

275 W Wisconsin Ave. Milwaukee WI

https://saintpatricksparade.org/

Purchase tickets here.

About SKERRYVORE

Over the last 15 years, Skerryvore have brought their performances to audiences across the globe, from their early days in Scottish West Coast halls and bars, to Festival crowds in USA, Canada, Australia and throughout the UK and Europe. Picking up Scottish traditional music’s ‘Live Act of the Year’ twice on the way – in 2011 and again in 2016 – the band’s wide range of influences and talent produce a musically expansive, high energy set that excites and captivates audiences.

With a mix of fiddle, accordions, pipes and whistles, alongside guitar and vocals, underpinned by driving bass, drums and keys, Skerryvore represent the best in contemporary Scottish traditional music. Their 6 studio albums demonstrate the wide range of influences the individual musicians bring to the mix – a unique fusion of folk, trad, rock and Americana, with even some jazz in there!

The band celebrated their 10th birthday in 2015 by launching their own 6000 capacity ‘Decade’ festival, following this up with successful ‘Oban Live’ events over each of the next four years. In 2020, their 15th anniversary event, featuring some of the musicians and friends who have shared part of Skerryvore’s journey, was due be held against the stunning backdrop of Inveraray Castle. The impact of the Covid-19 crisis has decimated the band’s touring and performing calendar for 2020, and well into 2021. Skerryvore have explored and developed alternative performance possibilities, including live streaming and virtual performances.

The band’s single, ‘Everyday Heroes,’ recorded from home, and aided by a variety of musicians from across the country, reached number one in the official Scottish charts and, so far, has raised several thousands of pounds for NHS staff charities.

Comfortable in the studio though the band are, it’s on the road in front of a live audience that they really come into their own. Their live album, recorded at Scottish venues in late 2019, and released in summer 2020, highlights this, as well as giving a hint that there’s still much more to come for Skerryvore’s growing worldwide fanbase.

“A great bunch of guys and superb live – really infectious and hard not to get swept up in what they do”
Mark Radcliff, BBC radio 2, 29.01.20

Gaelic Storm

The Barrymore

2090 Atwood Ave.
Madison WI 53704

Purchase Tickets from The Barrymore here!

It’s hard to imagine a band just coming into their own after 20 years of success, but that’s exactly what makes a true anomaly. This multi-national, Celtic juggernaut grows stronger with each live performance, and as you can imagine, after two decades and over 2000 shows, it is a true force to be reckoned with. With their latest release, Go Climb a Tree, their music has never sounded more representative of themselves as musicians and as live performers.

The band attributes their continued success to their fanatic audience, and it’s a well-diversified crowd for sure. The country-music folks adore the storytelling, the bluegrass-heads love the instrumentals, Celtic fans love their devotion to tradition, and the rockers simply relish the passion they play their instruments with. Each band member, in their own way, expresses a deep gratitude for their fans, but it’s best summed up in the words of Patrick Murphy: “The fans are the ones that have given us this life. We’re here for them.”

On Go Climb a Tree, co-founders of Gaelic Storm, Steve Twigger and Patrick Murphy, along with longtime friend and co-writer Steve Wehmever, are again at the helm of song-writing duties. The album has everything—party drinking songs  (“The Beer Song”), patriotic anthems (“Green, White and Orange”), beautiful folk songs (“Monday Morning Girl”), spritely instrumentals “”The Night of Tomfoolery”), perfectly poppy songs (“Shine On”), and even a raucous pirate song (“Shanghai Kelly”). When speaking of the overall concept of the album, Patrick Murphy gives some insight: “With all the craziness and division in the world, we wanted to make an album about ‘contemplative escapism.’ Go Climb a Tree certainly isn’t about dropping out of the conversation, it’s just about taking a short hiatus to recharge the batteries before you take on the world again.”

Gaelic Storm takes a true blue-collar, hard-nose approach to touring, consistently traveling the US and internationally over 200 days a year, forging a unique path in the Celtic music world. “You have to see us live. We are the true working-mans’ band,” says Ryan Lacey, who joined the lineup in 2003. “We still, and most likely always will, tour most of the year, and that’s how we constantly hone our craft.”

The dedication to live shows date all the way back to the mid-1990s, when Gaelic Storm kicked off its career as a pub band in Santa Monica, California. Due to their discovery at the pub, by the end of the decade, the musicians had appeared in the blockbuster film Titanic (where they performed “Irish Party in Third Class”). This laid the groundwork for a career that would eventually find them topping the Billboard World Chart six times, making appearances at mainstream music festivals, and regularly headlining the largest Irish Festivals across the country, all the while gaining a reputation as a genre-bending Irish rock band, whose songs mix Celtic traditions with something uniquely creative.

Looking to the future, Gaelic Storm is excited about what lies ahead. In 2022, they were excited to welcome Natalya Kay, an incredible fiddler hailing from Western Massachusetts, but living now in Music City, Nashville, TN. Natalya’s energy and presence on stage has been a force to be reckoned with.

Mia x Ally & Talisk

Purchase tickets from the Stoughton Opera House Here!

381 E Main St, Stoughton, WI 53589

$35 per ticket!

Mia x Ally is the electrifying duo project of electric violinist Mia Asano and bagpiper/multi instrumentalist Ally the Piper. With a combined following of over 6 million people, both musicians officially joined forces in April 2022 after discovering their love of performing together, and a number of their duo videos resulted in viral online demand for their continued collaboration. Playing both original songs and covers of pop rock and metal music with a celtic twist, Mia x Ally made their debut in Boston in August of 2022, playing two sold out shows and later went on to tour the East and Midwest on the “Shipping up to Boston tour” named after their viral cover of the Dropkick Murphys classic. The two are currently working on their first full length album together to be released in October 2023. The pair have been recognized by Dragonforce, The Charlie Daniels band and Metallica for covering their music.

Finding a shared desire to bring their unique instruments to the forefront of metal, rock and pop music, Mia x Ally care deeply about breaking boundaries encircling two instruments rooted so deeply in tradition. Both being classically trained musicians from a  young age, the two share a dream of showcasing the vast range of their instruments’ capabilities that span multiple genres and techniques.
www.miaxally.com

One of the most talked-about folk bands of the 21st century, Talisk have been tearing apart stereotypes and redefining the genre for almost a decade. With over 15 million streams, 10,000 albums sold worldwide, and sold out shows across five continents - from Paris to New York, London to Tokyo, Glasgow to Vancouver - alongside headline appearances at festivals the world over, the Scottish trio have amassed a global, die-hard following.

 Wielding instruments that have rarely seen the likes of their music, Mohsen Amini (concertina), Benedict Morris (violin) and Charlie Galloway (guitar) have stacked up major awards for their explosively energetic sound - including five between BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio Scotland, and two highly coveted BBC Alba Scots Trad Music Awards.

 At New Year 2022 they played BBC One’s Hogmanay show to a television audience in excess of one million, and - as the only folk act alongside pop headliners - quickly amassed a vast, mainstream audience that continues to propel the group to some of their largest live shows to date. Headlining Glasgow’s iconic Barrowland Ballroom in 2024 - during Europe’s largest winter festival, the legendary Celtic Connections - Talisk’s star remains firmly on a rapid ascent, and then some.

 Never afraid to push musical boundaries, or test the live production capabilities of just three people (yes, it’s all live), there’s captivating a crowd, and then there’s Talisk.