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The David Munnelly Band |
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Presented by The Southwest Celtic Music Association, the band was a big hit at this year’s North Texas Irish Festival. They wowed audiences with their unique jazzy Irish tunes influenced by the Golden Age of Irish music of the 1920s and 30s and their stunning traditional songs, all performed with an exuberance, energy, and a fiery passion. Based in County Mayo with members from Donegal, Dublin, and Galway, The David Munnelly Band has exploded onto the international Celtic music scene in the past four years with hit albums in Europe, Japan, and North America. The group is acclaimed for their outstanding, precision musicianship and exciting live shows. Founded by Irish button accordion player David Munnelly, who's toured and recorded with The Chieftains and with DeDanann, the David Munnelly Band is one of the hottest bands on the traditional Celtic music scene. "The Irish band to see" (Irish Voice) has won special acclaim for incorporating the sound of the 1920s and 1930s and such bands from that era as the Flanagan Brothers with its traditional roots. Awarded "Concert of the Year" for both 2006 and 2007 by LiveIreland.com. The band has been featured in the U.S. on Superstation WGN-TV, and were highlighted in a two-part concert on NPR’s “ Celtic Connections,” aired on over 100 stations across America. The band combines button accordion, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, piano, bodhrán and flute for a high-spirited instrumental sound colored with a bit of jazz and ragtime, topped with the singing of All-Ireland champion Shauna Mullin. Paul Keating of the Irish Voice says “A real crowd-pleaser and one of the more fascinating groups coming out of Ireland…the band to see!” Bill Margeson of LiveIreland.com and the Irish American News states, “There is no more loved group in the tradition…Munnelly is a creative force at the true epicenter of Irish music…. Munnelly is arguably the best button box player in the world…brilliant, brilliant music…Miss it, and you’ll be missing where the tradition is going." |
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Open Seating$20 $3 discount child/student (3-17) Senior (60+) and SCMA Member Please Purchase Tickets at the
Theatre Discount tickets must be purchased at the door. |
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