Traditional music session tonight at The Chez (Thursday, Aug 4)

7:30 p.m., 100 Hitt St, Columbia
Bring your instrument or just your ears and enthusiasm for a few Irish tunes. Beginners are welcome, bring a tape recorder if you want to record tunes for learning.

Beverages provided, bring goodies if you want. :)

Saturday, August 6, 6:00 p.m.
End of summer concert / recital / CMCAA Social
$5 suggested donation for adults, kids are very welcome.
The Chez Coffeehouse, 100 Hitt St., Columbia

Come celebrate the end of another Summer Arts Program with a concert featuring our artist-in-residence Sinead Fahey and a some of her summer music and dance students. 
Over the last 8 weeks, Sinead has taught eight different music, dance and language classes, taught many private lessons, give several music and dance demonstrations for children in the Mizzou Adventure Club programs, played for our ceilis and performed in Columbia and Fulton. It's been a great summer of music and she's been an excellent gust musician and teacher.

After the concert, we'll have a CMCAA social and send-off for Sinead, and give a big thank your to our host family, The Sharps who welcomed Sinead into their home for the summer.

If you would like to participate, please bring a potluck dish and utensils. We'll provide cake and ice cream, and ice tea and lemonade.

Monthly Ceili (Irish music and dance evening) next Friday, August 12

Caller: Kathryn Difoxfire
Music: Tim Langen

7:00 p.m. Beginners lesson
7:30 p.m. Dances begin and go until around 9:30 or 10.

David Munnelly Band concert, September 14

CMCAA Concert: Wednesday, September 14, 7:00 p.m.
The David Munnelly Band
Unity Center of Columbia, 1600 W Broadway

$10 adults ($8 CMCAA members & students)
1/2 price for  kids 6 - 16 (under 6 attend free)

http://www.davidmunnelly.com/

Here's an excerpt from a recent review of  their album, "By Heck":

By heck, indeed!
Here's an album that'll get your attention at first listen.  Melodeon and accordion (and piano) player Munnelly wears his heart on his sleeve and his heart lies in the music of "the golden age", when exuberance and a lack of cynicism combined to add an edge to Irish music which is often lacking in the more clinical and more cynical playing encountered today.  Munnelly  has no time for po-faced restraint; like a man possessed, he trots out a gleeful, purposeful intro, then tears into "The Cuckoo's Nest" with such pace and vigour that the listener's left gasping and wondering how he managed to fit so many intricate ornaments and curlicues into the tunes while maintaining such a uncomprising tempo and rhythm, so much so that the change to "The Silver Spire" comes as a shock - a further subtle build-up of energy and foot-tapping fun.

Energy and fun are Munnelly's stock in trade.  This is a great album to lift the spirits, brimming with unselfconscious musicality, at times playfully exploring those jazz tinges that coloured the Irish music of the 20s and 30s (some cheeky soprano sax from Richie Buckley and banjo from Paul Kelly enhancing the effect on, for example, Munnelly's own infectious barndance, the smileful By Heck).

Unpretentious, uplifiting music like this doesn't come along every day. Hitch a ride on the Munnelly juggernaut and enjoy the journey!
Aiden Crossey, Pay the Reckoning, UK

Regional Celtic Music Festivals Coming Up

Milwaukee Irish Fest - the mother of all Celtic music festivals!
www.irishfest.com
This is the 25th anniversary year of the festival and they've pulled out all the stops! See the entertainment lineup on the web site -- too many fantastic performers to list here!

Kansas City Irish Fest, September 2- 4
http://www.kcirishfest.com/
The Cottars, Old Blind Dogs, Wolfstone, Teada, Eileen Ivers, Barra McNielss, Cherish the Ladies and lots of local artists.

Southwest Missouri Celtic Heritage Festival & Highland Games, September 8 - 9
The Boatwrights,  Alex Sutherland & more
http://www.swmocelticfestival.com/

Weston Irish Festival, Oct 7 - 9
http://www.westonirish.com/wif.shtml
Performers have not been announced yet.