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An Irish Spring Concert: Benefit for the Sebastopol Community Cultural Center

April 9, 2024 @ 7:00 PM

Event Details

Walker Creek Music Camp
Presents

"An Irish Spring Concert"

Fundraising Event to Benefit
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center

Featuring a special performance of Irish music by

The Black Brothers
Shay & Michael Black w/Darcy Noonan

& Guest Artists

Liz Knowles
Marla Fibish
Eamon O’Leary
Dave Cory
Steve Baughman

WHEN & WHERE
Tuesday, April 9 @ 7pm
390 Morris St. Sebastopol, CA 95472

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Unable to attend, or interested in further supporting the Sebastopol Community Cultural Center? Please consider making a donation via the "Support" page on our website here!

If you are purchasing a ticket, you will also be given an opportunity to add a donation during check out.

Thank you for your generosity!

About Walker Creek Music Camp

Walker Creek Music Camp is a biannual music education camp held in the spring and fall at Walker Creek Ranch and Conference Center in the rolling hills between Marshall on Tomales Bay and Petaluma, CA.

The camp provides world-class music programs for students of all ages who love to play and sing Traditional American Music that include Bluegrass, Old-time and other related styles. This spring ’24 we’ve added an Irish music track to our learning program and brought together a group of well-known and critically acclaimed Irish musicians.

The Artists

The Black Brothers

Shay & Michael Black are singing siblings from Ireland's foremost family of song, The Black Family, which also includes their sisters Mary & Frances, & brother, Martin. Hailed in the Irish Echo as “one of the most impressive groups of Irish singers to be found anywhere; exquisite, exhilarating and nothing short of thrilling” they raise their sibling rivalry to revelry, The Blacks adroitly accompany themselves on banjo, cittern & guitar. The musical lineup also features button accordion virtuoso, Félim Egan and keyboardist, Eamonn Flynn . At their concerts one can expect to hear Irish traditional ballads, Dublin street songs, music hall ditties, contemporary folk compositions, rollicking reels & joyful jigs, all interspersed with comic stories, jokes & humorous childhood anecdotes that invariably have audiences smiling broadly & joining in on the choruses. Shay and Michael are close harmony singers, with a special fondness for songs that includes their audience in chorus, and many of the songs are narratives with stories.

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Liz Knowles

Liz Knowles’ fascination with music has always been rooted in how one can arrive, land, and leave a note. Though arriving to music through the language of classical music, it is her more than thirty-year journey through Irish music that has defined her musical style. She established herself as a dynamic performer and recording artist as soloist on the soundtrack for Michael Collins, fiddler with Riverdance, Broadway’s The Pirate Queen and The Green Bird, soloist with the New York Pops, the National Symphony and other orchestras and as featured artist for the Ireland 100 Festival at the Kennedy Center. She was music director and producer for several large-scale stage shows and recording projects that toured Europe, Asia and South America. Her compositions and arrangements of tunes and songs have been recorded by John Whelan, Flook, Chicago’s Metropolis Symphony Orchestra, Liz Carroll, Beolach, Bachue, J.P. Cormier, Michael Black, John Doyle, and Ensemble Galilei. Liz has composed and produced music for two exhibits featuring Irish art at the Art Institute in Chicago and at Notre Dame’s Snite Museum. She is a member of The String Sisters, The Martin Hayes Quartet, and Open the Door for Three and produces an ongoing podcast with fiddler Liz Carroll called “The Lizzes”.

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Marla Fibish

Marla is one of the prominent voices of the mandolin in Irish music, bringing a deep and distinctive sensibility to the tradition on one of its lesser heard instruments. Her dynamic playing is featured on her 2020 solo album The Bright Hollow Fog, the 2017 Noctambule release A Sweetish Tune, the eponymous Three Mile Stone recording with Erin Shrader and Richard Mandel, and The Morning Star with legendary Irish singer/bouzouki player Jimmy Crowley. She has performed and taught nationally and in Ireland. Marla also plays mandola, tenor guitar and button accordion, and is a singer and composer. She is known for her musical settings of works from a variety of poets, as well as original tunes written in traditional forms. This work is featured in the duo Noctambule with guitarist and husband Bruce Victor, on their four studio albums.

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Eamon O'Leary

Originally from Dublin, Eamon has lived in New York City for many years. He has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe, performing and recording with many of Irish music’s great players. In 2004, he and Patrick Ourceau released a live recording, Live at Mona’s, documenting their many years hosting a session on New York’s Lower East Side, and in 2012, Eamon released a recording of traditional songs, The Murphy Beds, with Jefferson Hamer, described by the Huffington Post as “ten beautiful, crystalline songs.” He has also teamed up with old friends John Doyle and Nuala Kennedy to form The Alt. Their self-titled debut album was released in November 2014. His songwriting can be heard, most recently, on The Silver Sun from Reveal Records.

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Dave Cory

Dave Cory has been playing Irish and American folk music on tenor banjo, guitar, mandolin, bouzouki and fretted instruments in general for over twenty years. Throughout years of gigging and recording, Dave has contributed to numerous independent projects and releases, from pub sessions to theatre soundscapes, and instructional camps to touring groups. After early classical guitar lessons, and chance hearings of the Chieftains and the Bothy Band, Dave started traveling to traditional music festivals and summer schools in Ireland each year, before moving to Boston and working with the wildly active music community there. He has recorded and/or performed with The Magic Square, The McKassons, Joey Abarta, Lissa Schneckenburger, and One For The Road, and Bog Buddies, to list a few.

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OUR SPONSORS

Thank you so much to our generous sponsors!

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Parking

Two parking lots available (390 Morris St & behind the Annex at 425 Morris St., and street parking. All parking is free for the evening. WE HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO CARPOOL!

ok yes correct done task Venue Policies
  • Drinks (beer, wine, non-alcoholic beverages) and snacks (chips, popcorn, candy, etc.) will be available for purchase inside the Main Hall

  • There is no dinner or hot food onsite

  • No outside food or drink is allowed except for water bottles

  • There will be a spot available to refill your water bottle

  • This is a drug free zone/venue

  • All persons and items entering the Sebastopol Community Cultural Center are subject to search

  • Patrons with prohibited bags, cases, or other items will be asked to return the item to their vehicle

  • Items prohibited to enter Sebastopol Community Cultural include, but are not limited to: Firearms of any size or type, other weapons and knives of any size or type, pepper spray, mace, or other chemicals, animals other than Registered Service Dogs, alcohol, illegal substances, or drug paraphernalia, professional-grade audio, photo, or video recording equipment, cans, bottles, or outside food and beverages.

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There are no refunds for this event, however if you cannot make it to the show you may transfer your ticket(s) to another person!

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I don’t have the QR code for my tickets, what do I do?
Don’t panic! We can look up your ticket order by the ticket purchaser’s name, email address, or the purchase confirmation number.

Do you have ADA seating for individuals with wheelchairs, walkers, etc.?
Yes! For seated events we have several locations marked for ADA seating. If all ADA spots are already occupied when you arrive, please see an usher or other member of staff to assist you.

I can’t make it to the show anymore, do you do refunds?
There are no refunds, however you may transfer your tickets to another individual by forwarding your QR code/confirmation email or letting them know whose name the ticket(s) are under.

NOTE: People often use social media (Facebook, Instagram, NextDoor, etc.) for ticket transfers. Please use caution and, whenever possible, only do ticket transfers with people you know and/or trust.

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