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Hailing from the historic Gold Rush Country of America, the five member Black Irish Band of twenty-one years, have a musical style that is as timeless as the rugged landscape of the west, a tribute to the people whose lives were spent building the world we now take for granted. The band has a large compliment of traditional maritime and railroad music, as well as ethnic tunes in their repertoire. They excel at Irish & Scottish, Italian, and American folk music with an assortment of original songs and traditional western ballads. The bands musical style captures the spirit of the immigrants of this land, the men and women who tamed the Wild West.

Highlights over the past 20 years
The Black Irish Band has gained much national attention over the years. In 2005 the band was hired by the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and performed at the National Mall and Kennedy Center. The band was featured on CBS "This Morning". In 2000 the band headlined at the International Music Festival in Singapore. The band also was the featured performers for the 100th Anniversaries of the Alaskan Gold Rush and White Pass & Yukon Railroad. Because of the historical nature of the Black Irish Band many venues such as, the Alaska History Museum, Golden Spike NHS, Gene Autry Museum, Elko Folklife Center, the Los Angels, San Diego, and San Francisco Maritime Museums have headlined the group in the past.

The band has sold 90,000 albums independently to date, and their music has been featured on College Radio Stations, National Public Radio, and on Satellite Radio Programming. Their recent original song, “Grizzly of Old California”, which features the vocals of Michael Martin Murphey, has been broadcasted on stations throughout the world. The band also boasts eighty-five music videos on You-Tube and at www.blackirish.com

For more information about the band go to their website at www.blackirish.com
Once there you can click on the bands You-Tube link and watch over 80 music videos and live perform