Lúnasa
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Detrick Hall at PRAx, Oregon State University 7pm / Doors 6:30 pm
Reserved seats $30/$35 • $5 Students • $2 Off for CFS Members
Tickets will be available beginning Dec. 9, 9 am, from the PRAx ticketing site https://prax.oregonstate.edu/events/l%C3%BAnasa
The CFS member discount code is cfsceltic24
“…state-of-the-art Irish music as aggressively infectious as you’ll ever
hear.” – Dirty Linen (2000)
Formed in 1997 and celebrating its 20th anniversary, Lúnasa has long been
one of contemporary Irish music’s leading voices. Named after an ancient
Celtic harvest festival in honor of the Irish god Lugh, the group that Folk
Roots magazine once called an “Irish music dream team” was formed from
members of some of Ireland’s greatest bands and over the years has proven
its mettle time and again, having sold over a quarter of a million records, and
collaborated with notable artists outside the tradition such as Natalie
Merchant and Mary-Chapin Carpenter. They have performed
more than 2,000 shows across 36 countries including high-profile concert
venues such as Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, National Concert Hall (Dublin), and Paris Bercy, and many of the leading festivals such as Glastonbury,
Womadelaide & Edmonton.
From the start, the band’s complex arrangements and unique sound reshaped
the boundaries of traditional music and energized audiences the world over.
Critical acclaim followed, The Irish Echo describing the band as the “the
hottest Irish acoustic band on the planet”; MOJO magazine named the band
“the new gods of Irish music,” adding that “nobody since the Bothies has
wielded such a thrilling rhythmic underlay.” Billboard raved that “anybody who
listens can’t help but find them contagious.”
Lunasa’s current lineup includes Trevor Hutchinson, who achieved fame as
the bassist with the The Waterboys; uilleann piper Cillian Vallely, who toured
with Riverdance and recorded with Bruce Springsteen; Kevin Crawford,
widely considered one of Ireland’s greatest flute players; award-winning
fiddler Colin Farrell, who has performed with Project West, Grada and Michael McGoldrick; and guitarist Ed Boyd, known on the UK folk circuit for his work with bands such as Flook, Kate Rusby, and Cara Dillon.
The Corvallis Folklore Society is thrilled to co-present this concert with PRAx to bring Lúnasa to Corvallis!
For more information about CCF concerts contact: info@corvalliscelticfestival.org
