St. Clair Productions presents Celtic Uilleann Piper Paddy Keenan with guitarist Richard Mandel on Friday, September 20, 8 p.m., at the Unitarian Fellowship, 87 4th St., Ashland. Tickets are $20/advance, $22/door, $10/teens 12-17 and free under 12. Tickets available at the Music Coop in downtown Ashland, www.stclairevents.com or 541-535-3562.
Paddy Keenan was a founding member of The Bothy Band, one of the most influential bands of the 1970s. The Bothy Band forever changed the face of Irish traditional music, merging a driving rhythm section with traditional Irish tunes. Bothy Band-mate Donal Lunny once described Paddy as "the Jimi Hendrix of the pipes"; more recently, due to his genius for improvisation and counter-melody, he has been compared to jazz great John Coltrane.
Recent awards include: 2002 named Irish National Traditional Musician; 2010 received the Irish Music Awards Top Uilleann Piper; and in 2011received the Irish Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.
Richard Mandel has been a mainstay in the San Francisco Bay Area Irish music scene since the mid-1990s. He performs with Three Mile Stone as well as playing guitar and tenor banjo with the traditional Irish group Tipsy House. Richard has backed up legendary Irish performers including Paddy Keenan, Tommy Peoples,Gerry O'Connor, and Andrew MacNamara. Richard can be heard on Christa Burch's CD "Love of the Land", Radim Zenkl's, "Restless Joy", and Tipsy House's CD, "Sets in the City," Richard teaches Irish DADGAD guitar at the Lark in the Morning.
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