Leo and Anto will be at the Tin Angel with the John Byrne Band this weekend.
Saw Doctors fans, you probably already know that Leo and Anto (Leo Moran of the Saw Doctors and Anthony Thistlethwaite from the Waterboys) will be at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia all weekend, with the John Byrne Band opening for them. I say that because Saw Doctors fans always know when their boys are in town. Now the rest of you do too.
Also on Saturday, the Monaghan brothers, Bill and Jim, of Celtic Pride, will be remembering their late brother, Michael, who died in 1998 while serving in the US Navy, at a fundraiser to raise money for the Michael S. Monaghan Memorial Scholarship. The event will be held at Archbishop Wood High School Sophia A. Friedman Auditorium, starting at 7 PM. The scholarship is given to an incoming ninth grader at Wood from Nativity of Our Lord or St. Vincent de Paul parishes.
On Sunday, there’s a ceili at the Irish Center in Wilmington, and you can get your dancing fix at J.D. McGillcuddy’s in Upper Darby where the Theresa Flanagan Band is playing.
Also on Sunday, musicians from Cape Breton and Newfoundland will be showing off the Canadian side of Celtic music at Calvary Center in Philadelphia, another Crossroads concert bringing the best of international music to Philadelphia.
On Wednesday, relive the best moments of the Philadelphia St. Patrick’s Day Parade at the Second Street Irish Society Hall on Third Street in Philadelphia. The Bogside Rogues and the Second Street Irish Society Step Dancers will perform as winners of the various prizes awarded to groups in the parade get their just due.
The play, Penelope, by Enda Walsh, and produced by the Inis Nua Theatre Company, continues this week at the Prince Theater in Philadelphia. Also on stage this coming Friday, The Muse and Mr. Yeats, a “play for voices,” which introduces each of the women with whom the famed Irish poet William Butler Yeats was involved. You can see the play by Eamon Grennon at the Vasey Black Box Theater at Villanova University.
On Saturday, the new Shamrocks Youth Camogie Team – camogie is the female version of hurling—will hold a beef-and-beer fundraiser at Daly’s Pub on Comly Street in Philadelphia.
As always, check the calendar for more information.
