Teada's flute player, Damien Stenson.
We’ve got one word for you: Teada. It’s pronounced Tay-da and it’s the name of one of the finest modern-day traditional bands to come out of Ireland. They packed them in at the Irish Center for their Christmas show, and they’re back on Saturday, May 16, to demonstrate again why “Living Tradition” magazine calls them “brilliant young musicians who present Irish music as it really is: the joy of it, the full breadth and depth of it, the power and pace of it.” The concert is sponsored by the Philadelphia Ceili Group. Don’t miss it.
The first of several benefits for the WTMR Irish radio shows occurs on Tuesday, with the Camden County Emerald Society sponsoring a night of Irish music at the Coastline Restaurant in Cherry Hill. Lots of local musicians are pitching in their talent and there’s a free buffet meal.
And you know, if this is the Philadelphia area, there’s an Irish traditional session going on somewhere just about every night of the week, usually in the proximity of some good draft Irish beer (with apologies to the South Jersey Irish seisun, which serves coffee at its new locale, the Coffee Garden in Audubon).
Check our calendar for all the local listings. And if you have an event, please add it to our calendar (yes, you can do it yourself).
Don’t forget to eat, drink, and buy Irish.
