Beginning as a one-time tour of four of Irish music's most brilliant players, two decades later the Celtic supergroup known as Patrick Street has reached legendary status, with acclaimed tours and eight albums to its name, most recently Street Life, from Green Linnet. "With the relaxed grace of masters," says the Boston Globe, "Patrick Street use their breathtaking virtuosity to display this ancient music at its wild and humble best."

Magnificent fiddler, Kevin Burke (formerly of Bothy Band and Open House) brings to the band's sound and repertoire the highly ornamented Sligo style for which he's famous. Button accordion wizard Jackie Daly (De Dannan) offers dazzling slides and polkas, and his seamless accordion-and-fiddle duets with Kevin are a highlight of the band's shows. One of the great balladeers of Irish music, Andy Irvine (Planxty) brings both soulful singing and unequalled bouzouki playing. Ged Foley's (Battlefield Band, the House Band) inventive guitar licks provide the ideal underpinning for Andy's intricate songs and the group's blistering sets of reels and jigs. Add to this the sensational fiddle work and multi-instrumental skills of John Carty (the group's newest member), and you're in for a truly mesmerizing show, the distillation of the very finest in traditional Irish music.