The Celtic Junction Arts Center is thrilled to join The Cedar, KFAI, and Irish Fair of MN to bring you Lúnasa at the Cedar Cultural Center on March 1st! The Cedar Cultural Center is located at 416 Cedar Avenue South in Minneapolis, 55454.

Lúnasa will include Cillian Vallely, pipes; Kevin Crawford, flutes and whistles; Trevor Hutchinson, bass; Ed Boyd, guitar; and Sean Smyth, fiddle! After a bit of a break from touring due to working as a physician, Sean is now on the road again!

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Formed in 1997 and celebrating its 25th anniversary, Lúnasa has long been one of contemporary Irish music’s leading voices. Named after an ancient Celtic harvest festival in honour 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. We welcome them back to the special Cedar stage on March 1.

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 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.”