Solas News

December opens with back-to-back concerts Dec. 4-5 at the Oak Center General Store.

November's gale-blown woodsmoke and foreboding skies call for a certain stripe of bleak and brooding music.

Attracting the art connoisseur, especially in the area of music and performance, the Performing Arts Series sets standards.

Irish folk band Solas will play Aspen's Wheeler Opera House on Saturday, Nov. 7. Robert Hakalski Solas When: Saturday, Nov.

Chicago resident Liz Carroll first gained attention in Irish music circles as a teenager in the 1970's, when she won a pair of fiddling competitions in Ireland.

Some years ago, New Yorker Winifred Horan set her mind to becoming a classical violinist, even attended the Aspen Music School for a summer.

Yonder Mountain String Band plays at Rams Head Live in Baltimore tonight . Danny Barnes, recently signed to ATO Records by owner Dave Matthews, opens both shows.

The life of conservationist John Muir is recalled in the one-man show 'Conversations with a Tramp,' starring Lee Stetson at 7 tonight at the Crest Pavilion in Woodfin, presented by the Western North Carolina Alliance.

After listening and dancing to the band Pogey Saturday at the 2008 festival, friends from Benedictine College formed a circle and continued singing and dancing as a recording of the traditional Irish song, "Tell Me Ma" played.

I think these folks would probably admit that they have succeeded beyond their best hopes.

They may have come for the Celtic music of Solas and the Makem and Spain Brothers Saturday, but those who arrived early for the Prescott Park Arts Festival's Americana festival enjoyed all of the bands that played.

Prescott Park Arts Festival presents Celtic band Solas , The Makem Brothers, The Molenes, and the Porch Rockers at its Americana Festival on Saturday, Aug.

Idaho State University will host a range of entertainment productions in the 2009-10 "A Season of Note" series held in the Joseph C. and Cheryl H. Jensen Grand Concert Hall of the L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center.

With the Prescott Park Arts Festival's 35th summer season of entertainment under way, this season's line-up continues to grow.

Boston-based singer/songwriter Antje Duvekot still seems a little amazed when she recounts what would prove a turning point in her musical career, when her "scratchy little demo tape" found its way into the hands of acclaimed Celtic band Solas.