BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.4.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Lunasa: An Irish Solstice Celebration X-WR-CALDESC:Portland Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20231105T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20231105T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunasa: An Irish Solstice Celebration DESCRIPTION:“…state-of-the-art Irish music as aggressively infectiou s as you’ll ever hear.” – Dirty Linen (2000)\n\nFormed in 1997\, L únasa has long been one of contemporary Irish music’s leading voices. Named after an ancient Celtic harvest festival in honour of the Irish g od Lugh\, the group that Folk Roots magazine once called an “Irish mus ic dream team” was formed from members of some of Ireland’s greatest bands and over the years has proven its mettle time and again\, having sold over a quarter of a million records\, and collaborated with notable artists outside the tradition such as Natalie Merchant and Mary-Chapin Carpenter.. They have performed more than 2\,000 shows across 36 countri es including high-profile concert venues such as Carnegie Hall\, The Hol lywood Bowl\, National Concert Hall (Dublin)\, and Paris Bercy\, and man y of the leading festivals such as Glastonbury\, Womadelaide &\; Edmo nton.\n\nFrom the start\, the band’s complex arrangements and unique s ound reshaped the boundaries of traditional music and energized audience s the world over. Critical acclaim followed\, The Irish Echo describing the band as the “the hottest Irish acoustic band on the planet”\; MO JO magazine named the band “the new gods of Irish music\,” adding th at “nobody since the Bothies has wielded such a thrilling rhythmic und erlay.” Billboard raved that “anybody who listens can’t help but f ind them contagious.”\n\nLunasa’s current lineup includes Trevor Hut chinson\, who achieved fame as the bassist with the The Waterboys\; uill eann piper Cillian Vallely\, who toured with Riverdance and recorded wit h Bruce Springsteen\; Kevin Crawford\, widely considered one of Ireland s greatest flute players\; award-winning fiddler Colin Farrell\, who has performed with Project West\, Grada and Michael McGoldrick\; and gui tarist Ed Boyd\, known on the UK folk circuit for his work with bands su ch as Flook\, Kate Rusby\, and Cara Dillon.\n\nCurrently the band is tou ring their most recent CD\, “Cas”. Released in the spring of 2018\, the album breaks new ground for the band\, and features for the first ti me guest singers.\n\n“this album is brilliant with a capital B……a new feather in the cap of the talented and influential musicians we know and love as Lunasa” – Irish American News URL;VALUE=URI:https://portlandmaine.com/events/lunasa-an-irish-solstice- celebration/ UID:urn:uuid:c1f99e9c-f943-41a3-8e86-647e142bf43b STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260913T070808Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231212T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231212T220000 LOCATION:181 State St\, Portland\, Maine 04101\, US END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR