7th Annual Celtic Appalachian Celebration

Presented as part of Carnegie Hall’s Migrations Festival

Friday, March 15 | 8:00 pm

at Symphony Space
Peter Norton Symphony Space
2537 Broadway

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This St. Patrick’s Day, celebrate by exploring Ireland’s connection to the music and dance traditions of West Africa and Appalachia with a rip-roaring evening of traditional Irish, old-time, and American folk traditions. New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters up from Galax, Virginia join the Green Fields of America and 1920s-inspired multi-instrumentalist Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton, while Little Nora Brownwows us on her banjo with fiddler Stephanie Coleman.

FEATURING

Mick Moloney, banjo, octave, mandolin, vocals

Athena Tergis, fiddle

with

The Green Fields of America

Brendan Dolan, piano, flute
Liz Hanley, fiddle, vocals
Billy McComiskey, accordion
Niall O’Leary, dancer

The New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters

Caroline Noel Beverley, mandolin, vocals
Bonnie Bond, bass, vocals
Eddie Bond, fiddle, vocals
Josh Ellis, banjo, vocals
Dennis Hall, band leader, guitarist

and

Little Nora Brown, banjo
Stephanie Coleman, fiddle
Jerron “Blind boy” Paxton, banjo, harmonica, and vocals