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AEG PresentsGAELIC STORM
FRI, 7 APR 2023 at 08:00PM EDT
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 07:00PM
OnSale: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 at 10:00AM EDT
Announcement: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 at 10:00AM EDT
Chart topping Celtic band: 7 times billboard #1 world music, on tour 200+ days a year for 20+ years! More funthan a barrel of drunken monkeys.It’s hard to imagine a band just coming into their own after 20 years of success, but that’s exactly what makes atrue anomaly. This multi-national, Celtic juggernaut grows stronger with each live performance, and as youcan imagine, after two decades and over 2000 shows, it is a true force to be reckoned with. With their latestrelease, Go Climb a Tree, their music has never sounded more representative of themselves as musicians and aslive 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 lovetheir devotion to tradition, and the rockers simply relish the passion they play their instruments with. Eachband member, in their own way, expresses a deep gratitude for their fans, but it’s best summed up in the wordsof 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 longtimefriend 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 folksongs (“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 thealbum, Patrick Murphy gives some insight: “With all the craziness and division in the world, we wanted tomake an album about ‘contemplative escapism.’ Go Climb a Tree certainly isn’t about dropping out of theconversation, 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 andinternationally 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 mostlikely 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 asa pub band in Santa Monica, California. Due to their discovery at the pub, by the end of the decade, themusicians 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 sixtimes, making appearances at mainstream music festivals, and regularly headlining the largest Irish Festivalsacross the country, all the while gaining a reputation as a genre-bending Irish rock band, whose songs mixCeltic traditions with something uniquely creative.Looking to the future, Gaelic Storm is excited about what lies ahead. They’ve added a new fiddle player, KatieGrennen, and she has affectionately become the “purple squirrel” of the band, meaning she is the perfect newaddition. Pete Purvis who joined the band in 2005 said, “With the addition of Katie, the band has neversounded better, we’re gelling on a whole new level, and the idea of sharing these new songs with our fans isexciting!”
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The Plaza Live, 425 N Bumby Ave, Orlando, United States
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