Kitchen Céilí: Traditional Music from Ireland, Scotland, and New England

The Judy Black Memorial Park & Gardens & The Gunn Memorial Library present a special collaborative event featuring the talented musical group Kitchen Céilí. This concert promises an afternoon of vibrant music, community spirit, and cultural celebration. The event will take place at Judy Black Memorial Park & Gardens.

Join us for this concert of traditional Irish and New England music!  As their name implies, the traditional Irish/New England band Kitchen Céilí aims to serve up healthy portions of spirited tunes and songs in unpretentious good humor. Their repertoire includes the driving reels and lilting jigs and hornpipes one would find in an Irish pub session, as well as stately waltzes, slow airs, and old and new songs of emigrants, soldiers, lovers, and lawyers from both sides of the Atlantic. The band features George Wilson on fiddle, banjo, and vocals, Dora Hast on tin whistle and recorders, Stan Scott on guitar, mandolin, banjo, and vocals, and Sam Scheer on vocals and guitar.

George Wilson is a talented multi-instrumentalist whose repertoire draws on traditional and folk styles from New England, the Adirondacks, Quebec, Cape Breton, Ireland, Scotland, and Shetland. Dora Hast has collected a unique repertoire of traditional tin whistle tunes through many trips to Ireland. Her book Music in Ireland (Oxford University Press), co-authored with her band-mate and husband Stan Scott, is a standard resource in traditional Irish music studies.  Stan Scott is a composer, singer, guitarist, and mandolinist whose eclectic musical interests have led him to India and Ireland many times, where he has lectured and performed at the Willie Clancy Summer School and the Clare Festival of Traditional Singing. Sam Scheer received his MA in English at Oxford University and has been a long-time teacher, guitarist, and songwriter. He has recorded several albums of original and traditional songs, including Somewhere in the Middle of Your Life with Stan Scott that are available on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple.

Registration is required: https://www.gunnlibrary.org/calendar/kitchen-ceili-2026/