Among the most engaging Irish traditional bands in America today, the Chicago-based trio known as bohola plays a fiery, muscular, emotive style of music with a barreling drive that goes straight to your feet and commands them to dance.

Irish accordion virtuoso Jimmy Keane, along with Chicagoan fiddler extraordinaire Sean Cleland and the remarkable Dublin-born dordan (bass bouzouki) player and singer Pat Broaders, offer far more than great instrumental interplay, powerful vocals, and stunning arrangements. On stage and on albums like their recent bohola 4 (Shanachie), their vibrant playing melds Irish lyricism with the raw, gritty musical language of the urban Irish-American experience. This combination gives a distinctive edge to the trio's repertoire of hundred-year-old reels, jigs, slides, polkas, barndances, and songs ancient and new.

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