They started their own Shamboozle Fest in Asheville, N.C. The band travels about 200 days a year throughout the world and played at the 2011 Festival du Chant de Marin in Paimpol, France, with the Chieftains and Sinead O'Connor, among others. The tiny lass puts heart and soul into her fiddling and sometimes joins the singers on a chorus or two. Burns, a native of England, lives in the Rocky Mountains and is an avid skier when the group isn't on the road. The newest band member is high-energy violin player Jessie Burns, who came on board in 2007. Californian Ryan Lacey joined the group in 2003 as drummer, while Canadian Peter Purvis, who sports the most serious visage of the members, plays pipes and whistles. An audience favorite is a story he tells about himself, The Night I Punched Russell Crowe, a ballad based on an actual event.Ĭo-founder Steve Twigger comes from England and plays guitar and sings, as well as writes many of the band's songs. ![]() ![]() The linchpin of the band is the resident Irishman Patrick Murphy, a native of Cork, who co-founded the group in a California pub and is the lead singer, accordion player and raconteur. The set list also will likely include Gaelic Storm's own signature song, What's the Rumpus, when Storm Chasers often out-sing the guys on the stage.įirst-timers who browse through greeting card racks may recognize another Gaelic Storm favorite, Kiss Me, I'm Irish, which was made into a musical Hallmark card a few years back. Among the tunes is a tribute to an Irish lass, Red Hair, Green Eyes, who "plays violin with a bayonet " the Simon and Garfunkel classic Cecilia, done with a Celtic touch the Celtic rock anthem Raised on Black and Tans and a song with a Jamaican bounce, Northern Lights. ![]() It's likely the band will feature songs from its 2010 album, Cabbage, the seventh studio album the group has made since they formed in 1995. Nearly two weeks out, the venue has almost filled up, with the floor seats all gone (most likely to diehard Stormers), a smattering of individual tickets available in the coveted center sections and a few rows in the side and back sections. 21 show marks the sixth time the group has been at PHCC, and the crowds grow in size and enthusiasm with each appearance.
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