Musical Performance featuring Solas

Solas For over a decade, Solas has been hailed as the leading Irish-American supergroup. Through line-up changes and experiments with style and technology, the band has pushed the boundaries of—but never strayed too far from—their Irish roots.
Now, as Máiréad Phelan, an exciting young singer from Kilkenny, steps up to lend her exquisite vocals to the existing line up of Seamus Egan (flute, tenor banjo, mandolin, whistle, guitar, and bodhran), Winifred Horan (fiddle), Mick McAuley (accordion and concertina) and Eamon McElholm (guitar and keyboards), the band heads into their second decade of playing tight, fiery Irish music with a new tour and a new CD, For Love and Laughter . The new album breaks fresh ground in duets with Canada’s folk phenoms The Duhks, contributions from Cedar regulars cellist Natalie Haas and Dirk Powell, and an inspired rendition of Rickie Lee Jones’s “Sailor Song,” while it offers the imaginative reinterpretations of traditional material that Solas has been playing to the delight of their fans worldwide.
“The finest Celtic ensemble this country has ever produced...combines a deep empathy for the wild grace of traditional music with a savvy understanding of modern arrangement, creating a remarkably contemporary and timeless sound that led them immediately to Celtic superstardom...uniquely fluid, warmly melodic and robust.” - The Boston Globe
“Solas has electrified crowds everywhere it has played; it’s an Irish traditional band bearing all the marks of greatness.” -The Wall Street Journal
“One of the most exciting bands anywhere in the world.” - Irish Echo
Tickets on sale 2pm Fri Aug 1 from Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), Cedar outlets, and online at Ticketweb.
$18 advance, $20 day of show