Featuring Kevin Burke - Concert and Irish Session at Dewey Hall

Join us for a lively Irish session and concert with Kevin Burke at Dewey Hall - it's going to be the craic!

About this Event

Welcome to an Irish Session and Concert featuring Kevin Burke! Join us for a night filled with Irish music and lively tunes.

Starting at 5:00pm with an open Irish Session at Dewey Hall, sponsored by Berkshire Strings. Bring your traditional instrument, request your favorite tunes and play with other Irish music lovers from the community and beyond. Donations requested to offset the costs of concert production. Dinner break of 45min. to follow.

At 7:00pm, Kevin Burke, a master fiddler, prolific recording artist and star of fiddlevideo.com, takes the stage in his first appearance in Sheffield . This in-person, up close and personal, unplugged event promises to be a memorable experience for all music lovers. Don't miss out on the opportunity to immerse yourself in the sounds of Ireland. Grab your friends and family, and come on down to the acoustically divine Dewey Hall for a night of fantastic music!

Contact Erika Ludwig at ZXJpa2EgfCBiZXJrc2hpcmVzdHJpbmdzICEgY29t for more info.

Click here for a greeting from Kevin Burke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA4OYGO6UHM?si=75PzZgX_N_AWv3sG

Kevin Burke is one of the great fiddle players in the history of Irish music. His technical virtuosity is matched with soulful musicality, a deep knowledge of the Irish traditional repertoire and a unique personal style. A generation of Irish fiddle players have been inspired and influenced by his silky-smooth tone, pulsing rhythmic bowing and crisply executed ornamentation, but Kevin’s art defies imitation.

Born in London to Irish parents, Kevin began playing at the age of seven and soon found his way to the forefront of the vibrant Irish music scene in “the Big Smoke,” serving an apprenticeship in the 1960s in London dance halls and with the All-Ireland champion Glenside Ceili Band. A chance meeting with Arlo Guthrie in County Clare led to his first journey to the U.S., where he found himself meeting New York fiddle great Andy McGann and recording in Los Angeles with slide guitarist Ry Cooder. Kevin’s reputation was steadily growing, leading to invitations to join Christy Moore’s band and the famous Bothy Band, widely regarded as the greatest Irish traditional music group of all time.

Next Kevin formed a partnership with guitarist and singer Mícheal Ó Domhnaill, and later became a mainstay of the groups Patrick Street, Open House, and the Celtic Fiddle Festival. His performances in recent years have often been totally solo or, as he calls it, “the naked fiddle.” This would be an intimidating high-wire act for many musicians, but Kevin’s easy manner and clever wit create an intimate bond with audiences and produce often spell-binding performances.

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