I’m told we will have a couple of Irish beers at the concession stand as well as some nonalcoholic because ALL ARE WELCOME when Irish music plays. Come one, come all! Get your tickets at Coralville Center for the Performing Arts 🇮🇪
After eighteen joyous years of making music together, we are wishing our guitarist Keith Reins the fondest of farewells as he and his family move to Tucson, Arizona. Coppers & Brass has two final concerts together before we gratefully part. Please join us to celebrate and to thank Keith for his incomparable musicianship and friendship.… Read More Coppers & Brass Farewell
In celebration of ten years playing together as The Soft and Low, Jeffrey C. Capps and I gave ourselves the best possible present of warming up The James Theater stage for one of our very favorite bands, Crystal City. Thank you so much to Dave Helmer and Sam Drella for playing with us, to Mark… Read More 10 Years of The Soft and Low
Tickets are $15 advance/$20 at the door for Irish Winterfest one week from today (Sunday, January 29 at 4:30 pm) at CSPS Hall in Cedar Rapids. Save $5 per ticket by purchasing in advance: cspshall.org Along with Irish trad band Coppers & Brass (Frank Claudy, Joe Dutcher, Tara McGovern and Keith Reins), harp duo Wandering… Read More Irish Winterfest honoring Tréa Champagne
Jeff and I are proud and delighted to be celebrating 10 years of making music together! Please join us at The James in Iowa City on Saturday, January 28 for a shared concert with Crystal City.
I was so happy to meet Séamus Fay and Martin Donahue, both of whom are interviewed in this piece, at the session at Farnham Arms Hotel in County Cavan and it’s a treat to see them again in this wonderful episode (click through).
Freegrass Trio is Blake Shaw (cello, arrangements), Dan Padley (guitar, composition, arrangements) and Tara McGovern (fiddle). In this video by Signal Flow Productions, we are featuring Annie Savage on harp. “Moon River” is by Henry Mancini and is arranged for Freegrass Trio by Blake Shaw.
Freegrass String Trio is Blake Shaw (cello, arrangements), Dan Padley (guitar) and Tara McGovern (fiddle). “Focus” is written and arranged by our guitarist Dan Padley. In this video by Signal Flow Productions, we are featuring Annie Savage on harp.
Freegrass Trio is Blake Shaw (cello, arrangements), Dan Padley (guitar, composition, arrangements) and Tara McGovern (fiddle). In this video by Signal Flow Productions, we are featuring Annie Savage on harp. Freegrass and Annie will be playing three concerts at DalekoArts in New Prague, Minnesota the weekend of October 28-30.
Tara McGovern 