Irish Traditional Music
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Irish Traditional Music Saint Patrick’s Eve, Friday March 16, 2012 7.30pm to 9.00pm The CanalWay CoffeeHouse The CanalWay Center, 4524 East 49th Street, Cuyahoga Heights, OH 44125 “Turn the Corner” is a multi-member Irish band, co-founded by Michael and Caroline Kilbane in 1996. The band specializes in Irish Traditional Music, Song and Dance and is the resident band for The Cleveland Ceili Club. All the band members are heavily influenced by the great bands of the seventies and eighties such as Planxty, The Bothy Band, De Danann, Altan, and the Chieftains. The band performs locally at concerts, festivals, libraries, weddings and parties as well as ceilis. Caroline and Michael Kilbane have been playing Irish traditional music together since they met in Cork, Ireland in 1981. They moved to Cleveland in 1993 and released their CD “No Strings Attached” in 1996. Michael plays the uilleann pipes, tin whistle, concertina and button accordion. Caroline plays the concert flute and tin whistle. For the CanalWay Coffee House March concert Michael and Caroline are joined by Patrick Kilbane on fiddle, Kathie Stewart on concert flute, Kevin Burke on tin whistle and bodhran, Caroline Taylor on keyboards and Shelli Sharp on vocals. Directions: Take 77 south to Grant Avenue Take exit 158 for Grant Ave toward Cuyahoga Heights Keep right at the fork, follow signs for Grant Avenue W Turn right onto Grant Ave Turn left onto E 49th St CanalWay Center is .4 of a mile on the right Look out for the CanalWay Center Metroparks entrance sign. And it’s not the first Metroparks sign; that just a parking lot!.