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Jan
26
Fri
Jocelyn Pettit Band Plays Blazing New-Trad Celtic Music @ Lovitt Restaurant & Bar
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Jan 26 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Jocelyn Pettit Band Plays Blazing New-Trad Celtic Music @ Lovitt Restaurant & Bar | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Led by energetic fiddler, stepdancer and singer, Jocelyn Pettit, the band has brought their blazing “New-Trad Celtic” music to audiences worldwide.

The Jocelyn Pettit Band is a group of family and friends, with accompaniment provided by Jocelyn’s mother, Siew Wan Khoo (piano, fiddle) and father, Joel Pettit (bodhran, cajon, vocals), with Erik Musseau (whistles, pipes, vocals) and Colm MacCárthaigh (guitar, vocals)

Call Lovitt Restaurant 360-671-7143 for dinner reservations, Jan Peters for show reservations 360-820-0486. Or write jansongsproducions@gmail.com

This concert starts at 8:00 p.m., $10 Cover
A Jan Songs Production

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Categories: Music Concerts Tags: Celtic Music farm to table
Feb
10
Sat
Laura Love Returns to Bellingham! @ BUF
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Feb 10 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Laura Love Returns to Bellingham! @ BUF | Bellingham | Washington | United States

“Her music is spare, yet striking. Her voice is ripe, supple, strong and impossible to ignore.”
-Billboard

On Saturday, February 10, Laura Love brings her power-house voice and powerful presence to Bellingham after an absence of two decades. Love has played to rapt audiences around the globe and her recent return to the stage has been enthusiastically received from coast to coast. She felt “compelled to get back on the road, reach out to other human beings and spread kindness.” Love’s music is not only keen and kind, it energizes and empowers audiences in a way that is nothing short of unique.

Love’s music is wide-ranging and impossible to contain in any one genre. Acoustic Guitar Magazine writes: “…highly original style she calls Afro-Celtic: an improbable but irresistible hybrid of hip-grinding rhythms and folk melodies, electric funk bass and Appalachian-inflected vocals … It’s a new sound, for sure, but one that clearly shows its roots, making the band equally welcome in rock clubs and on bluegrass/Americana stages …”

Laura Love will be accompanied by master guitarist, Terry Hunt. The concert will take place at 1207 Ellsworth Street at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 10. The concert is sponsored by BUF’s Social and Environmental Justice Group.

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Categories: Music Concerts Tags: blues Celtic Celtic Music funk
May
25
Fri
Blackthorn Celtic Band Plays Ski To Sea Weekend at Lovitt, Fri & Sat Nights! @ Lovitt Restaurant & Bar In Fairhaven
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May 25 @ 9:00 pm
Blackthorn Celtic Band Plays Ski To Sea Weekend at Lovitt, Fri & Sat Nights! @ Lovitt Restaurant & Bar In Fairhaven | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Blackthorn band spends Ski To Sea weekend with us here at Lovitt. They are one of Canada’s and our greater region’s top Celtic bands and put on a truly fantastic show. We’ll be ready for everyone to come party with them! Friday and Saturday nights, May 25 and 26, 9:00 – 11:00 p.m.

Fiddler Kera-Lynne Newman and Jan Peters will play the dinner music before the shows from 6:30-8:30 p.m. with a mix of Irish and some American tunes. Dinner reservations are highly recommended. Please call 360-671-7143 to reserve your table.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts Tags: Celtic Music farm to table ski to sea bellingham
May
26
Sat
Blackthorn Celtic Band Plays Ski To Sea Weekend at Lovitt, Fri & Sat Nights! @ Lovitt Restaurant & Bar In Fairhaven
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May 26 @ 9:00 pm
Blackthorn Celtic Band Plays Ski To Sea Weekend at Lovitt, Fri & Sat Nights! @ Lovitt Restaurant & Bar In Fairhaven | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Blackthorn band spends Ski To Sea weekend with us here at Lovitt. They are one of Canada’s and our greater region’s top Celtic bands and put on a truly fantastic show. We’ll be ready for everyone to come party with them! Friday and Saturday nights, May 25 and 26, 9:00 – 11:00 p.m.

Fiddler Kera-Lynne Newman and Jan Peters will play the dinner music before the shows from 6:30-8:30 p.m. with a mix of Irish and some American tunes. Dinner reservations are highly recommended. Please call 360-671-7143 to reserve your table.

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Feb
24
Fri
Lunasa @ McIntyre Hall
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Feb 24 @ 7:30 pm

LUNASA McIntyre Hall Presents Friday, February 24 7:30pm

Tickets: Reserved Seating $35 – $45 CYO Subscription, Student and Senior Discounts COVID-19: Masks are encouraged but not required at this time.

Named for an ancient Celtic harvest festival in honor of the Irish god Lugh, patron of the arts, Lúnasa is indeed a gathering of some of the top musical talents in Ireland. Its members have helped form the backbone of some of the greatest Irish groups of the decade. Bassist Trevor Hutchinson was a key member of The Waterboys and The Sharon Shannon Band; Guitarist Ed Boyd (Flook, Michael McGoldrick Band); Fiddler Sean Smyth is an All-Ireland champion who has played with Donal Lunny’s Coolfin; Kevin Crawford, considered to be among the finest flutists in Ireland played with the acclaimed traditional group Moving Cloud; and, piper Cillian Vallely of the famous Vallely artistic clan has performed with Riverdance and recently recorded with Bruce Springsteen.

”The Hottest Irish Acoustic band on the Planet” ~ The Irish Voice

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts Tags: acoustic Celtic Music irish music
Mar
17
Fri
The Jeremiahs @ McIntyre Hall
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Mar 17 @ 7:30 pm
The Jeremiahs @ McIntyre Hall

THE JEREMIAHS McIntyre Hall Presents Friday, March 17 7:30pm

Tickets: Reserved Seating $30 – $40 CYO Subscription, Student and Senior Discounts COVID-19: Masks are encouraged but not required at this time.

The Jeremiahs formed in 2013 to become a welcome gopher in the garden of Celtic music. The Jeremiahs is an Irish folk band that came together with the goal of writing, composing and performing folk songs and music. With a wonderful mixture of newly composed songs and tunes in the folk genre and a well selected catalogue of older folk songs, they are sure to rouse all the emotions. So get out and don’t miss them! They shape their sound with Dubliner Joe Gibney’s beautiful vocals and some whistle (not at the same time); Julien Bruneteau from Brittany who plays whistle and flute; Dublin based James Ryan who holds down the rhythm section on guitar and bouzouki and a few choice effects pedals; and finally Niamh Varian Barry whose fiddle playing and singing will be familiar to many as she was lead singer with Solas for years.

“One of the freshest bands in Irish traditional music” ~ Séan Laffey Irish Music Magazine

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Music Concerts Tags: Celtic Music irish folk
January 2018 – March 2023 Jan 2018 – Mar 2023