Celtic Music Association presents Solas

Category: Concerts / Theater
Location:
Hoyt Sherman Place
1501 Woodland Place
Des Moines, IA 50309 Celtic Music Association presents Solas
Website: http://www.hoytsherman.org
Date: Saturday Feb 18, 2012
Time: 8 p.m.
Admission: $25



Description:
Since its birth in 1996, Solas has been loudly proclaimed as the most popular, influential & exciting Celtic band to ever emerge from the United ...Read More Since its birth in 1996, Solas has been loudly proclaimed as the most popular, influential & exciting Celtic band to ever emerge from the United States. Even before the release of its first Shanachie CD, the Boston Herald trumpeted the quartet as "the first truly great Irish band to arise from America," & the Irish Echo ranked Solas among the "most exciting bands anywhere in the world." Since then, the praise has only grown louder. Solas is virtually unique in the new territory it has opened up for Celtic music. It has performed at all the major Celtic & folk festivals, including Philadelphia, Edmonton, the legendary National Folk Festival & Milwaukee's Irish fest; but also at Telluride Bluegrass Festival & the chamber music summer series at Steamboat Springs, Colorado. It has performed at Symphony Hall, Wolf Trap, the Ford Amphitheater & Queens Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland. In New York City, where the band was based in its early years, it has played at the legendary Bottom Line folk club, but also at vaunted classical venues Town Hall & Symphony Space.

The Solas sound today is anchored by founders Seamus Egan, who plays flute, tenor banjo, mandolin, whistle, guitar & bodhran, and fiddler Winifred Horan. They are two of the most respected and imitated musicians anywhere in acoustic music. Mick McAuley from Kilkenny plays accordion & concertina; Eamon McElholm from Tyrone plays guitar & keyboards.