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Folkmoot LIVE! – Pure Drop Traditional Irish Music
April 3, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$5
If you love traditional Irish music, this concert is for you!
Folkmoot LIVE! is thrilled to present an evening of Pure Drop Traditional Irish Music. Join us for the superb sounds of Andrew Finn Magill & David McKindley-Ward. Read more below.
Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 7 PM, Doors at 6 PM
Listen:
Tickets: https://givebutter.com/OLccES
Ticket Donation
Pay What You Can: $25, $15, $5
Donations are Welcome
Folkmoot Friendship Center
112 Virginia Avenue, Waynesville, NC
The Spotted Banana Food Truck On-Site
Andrew Finn Magill is an award-winning multi-genre fiddler/violinist. He is a Fulbright fellow, North Carolina Arts Council Fellow and an award-winning composer. Finn has been featured on PBS, MTV, TEDx, Avianca in-flight entertainment and multiple times on NPR’s The Thistle & Shamrock. His 2016 album Roots (featuring Cillian Vallely of Lúnasa and John Doyle) debuted at number #46 on the folk DJ charts. He has toured internationally and headlined several Irish festivals.
Award winning musician and singer, David McKindley-Ward has made a name for himself as a recording and touring multi-instrumentalist in the folk, roots and traditional music scenes across the US, Ireland and the UK. He is a regular performer and instructor at Irish music teaching festivals including O’Flaherty’s Irish Retreat, Atlanta Irish Fest, Baltimore Tradfest, Celtic Fest Mississippi, the Ashokan Center, The Philadelphia Céilí Group Traditional Irish music and Dance Weekend, the Augusta Irish Retreat and the Catskills Irish Arts Week. In the fall of 2024 he released a double album with longtime friend, collaborator and songwriter Letitia VanSant called The Eye of the Storm.
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