Celtic music and Ceili dance with BARRA

The North Shore Music Association will usher in the music and dance of Ireland next month, with a concert and dance by Twin Cities band BARRA.

Get your Ceili on! Sprightly masters of fiddle, bodhran, and button box will take you spinning through the early spring night on the lakeshore. The North Shore Music Association hosts an evening of Celtic music and dance featuring musicians from the band BARRA: Beth Vance, fiddle; Dave Cammack, bodhran and button box; Paul Garding, guitar and vocals; Bobbie Scott, concertina and whistle; and Ann Wiberg, dance caller.

The concert starts at 7 p.m. March 31. The dance starts at 7:45. All ages are welcome. Tickets go on sale at 6:30 p.m. the night of the show – $15 for adults and $10 for youth 18 and under.

Dave Cammack began performing Irish music through his love of Irish dance. A founding member of the band BARRA, Dave has also performed with Rí Rá, Laura MacKenzie, and the Knocknagow Irish Dancers. Paul Garding has played guitar and sung with BARRA since the band’s inception. Paul also performs with “Forty Shades of Green,” a traditional Irish band based in the Twin Cities. Beth Vance works as a nurse in the “real world” but has been part of the Irish music and dance scene in the Twin Cities for many years. She has been with BARRA for the last four years. Bobbie Scott works with museums, doing anything from reenactments to archaeology. She has been known to use her box and whistle-playing in her reenactments and, as a veteran member of the Twin Cities Irish music scene sometimes sits in with the band BARRA.

A veteran dance caller, Ann Wiberg taught Ceili dances once a week for 12 years. She now calls dances throughout the year at weddings, parties, and official Ceilis.