PATRICIA ALBERTI
performing artists management
THE BLACK IRISH BAND
THE MUSIC OF IRELAND, ITALY AND AMERICA
2005 - performed at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and the National Mall and Kennedy Center. Featured on CBS “This Morning”.
2000 - headlined at the International Music Festival in Singapore. Featured performers for the 100th Anniversaries of the Alaskan Gold Rush and White Pass & Yukon Railroad. Headlined at the Alaska History Museum, Golden Spike NHS, Gene Autry Museum, Elko Folklife Center, the Los Angels, San Diego, and San Francisco Maritime Museums.
“The Black Irish Band have created some great songs”
–Michael Martin Murphey
“A very talented group that brings history alive”
–Smithsonian Folklife Festival
“The Black Irish Band’s performance is of the highest standard”
–The Museum of America & the Sea.
“The bands talent and drawing power has been a huge success for the museum!”
–California State Railroad Museum
“The crowd at the University of Montana stood up for countless ovations!”
–Billings Outpost
Hailing from the historic Gold Rush Country of America, the Black Irish Band of seventeen years has a musical style that is as timeless as the rugged landscape of the west, a tribute to the people whose lives were spent building the world we now take for granted. The band has a large compliment of traditional maritime and railroad music, as well as ethnic tunes in their repertoire. They excel at Irish, Italian, and American folk music with an assortment of original songs and traditional western ballads. The bands musical style captures the spirit of the immigrants of this land, the men and women who tamed the Wild West.
To date the band has produced 16 CD albums and have recorded 82 original song ballads. Their latest, Into the Fire, honors America’s Firefighters. The Black Irish Band teamed up with the nation’s number one Cowboy Singer, Michael Martin Murphey, in the production of the album. The new CD will also feature a music video with Murphey and the band for a summer 2007 CMT Television release. Timeless, historic, original, and entertaining to all ages the Black Irish Band is like no other band! From the fire of the fiddle & accordion, to the blend of five strong voices, the Black Irish Band is a very original class act! With 70,000 albums sold independently to date & 17 years of performance this band is not to be missed!
–The Music of Ireland, Italy, and America.