Jimmy and Máirtín, sunny Cork's two traveling ambassadors, will drive the gray clouds from our week with an hour of great songs and stories, followed by a social dance for everyone.

 

Máirtín, singer for The Fuchsia Band, returns again to Columbia withhis hatful of great songs and stories. Maybe we'll coax that famous broom dance out of him this time! 

 

We're happy to welcome musician, poet and scholar Jimmy Crowley on his first stop in Columbia, a Cork institutution since the mid-70s! 

 

"Jimmy is a living legend in Irish Folk music. He comes from Cork, in the south of Ireland, a city whose musical richness mirror's the city's diversity - a great trad music and song heritage as well as a legacy from music-hall vaudeville and high art musical traditions. Crowley draws on all of these traditions in fashioning his own unique performance style and repertoire and has collected extensively in the south of Ireland both as a ballad singer and as part of his academic degree.

"He is a consummate stage performer as well as a song writer, colour to his songs by weaving stories about Cork characters, maritime exploits and daily life into his act. His singing style is truly unique - nobody hearing Jimmy could possibly mistake him for anyone else." -- Mick Moloney