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DCCA presents
Award-Winning musicians at Memorial Hall
Darke County Center for the Arts will present We Banjo 3, a band from
Galway, Ireland that plays a blend of traditional Irish, old time, and
bluegrass music, on Saturday, February 4 at Henry St. Clair Memorial
Hall in Greenville. According to DCCA Artistic Director Keith Rawlins,
members of the band have won numerous awards in their native country,
including eleven All-Ireland titles on the banjo plus an All-Ireland
champ on both fiddle and bodhran. “We Banjo 3 combines amazing musical
skill with joyful energy to engage everyone who enjoys acoustic music
of any kind,” Mr. Rawlins explained.
Consisting of two sets of brothers, the band includes Enda Scahill and
Martin Howley on banjo, mandolin, and tenor guitar, Fergal Scahill on
fiddle, guitar, and bodhran, and David Howley playing banjo and guitar
and adding vocals. “Martin Howley is the first Irish banjo player to
play at the Grand Ole Opry, Enda Scahill is known world-wide as a banjo
wizard, Fergal Scahill is one of the most renowned fiddlers in Irish
music, and David Howley is quite simply a hugely talented singer and
multi-instrumentalist,” Mr. Rawlins stated. “They are breakout stars
wherever they play, and wowed crowds at Dayton's Irish Festival last
summer with their Americana meets traditional Irish sound that they
call Celtgrass,” he concluded.
Sponsors for the concert by We Banjo 3 are Second National Bank and The
Bistro Off Broadway. This presentation is supported by the Arts Midwest
Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National
Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Ohio
Arts Council and the Crane Group. Additionally, the Ohio Arts Council
helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic
growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
DCCA also receives funding from the Harry D. and Esther Stephens
Memorial, Ketrow Foundation, and Lydia E. Schaurer Memorial Trust Fund,
as well as DCCA memberships.
We Banjo 3 will also perform for high school students in all local
public schools January 30 through February 2 as part of DCCA's Arts In
Education program; these performances are free and open to the public.
Tickets for the February 4 concert cost $20 for adults; students will
be admitted for half price. To reserve tickets, contact DCCA at
937-547-0908 or dcca@centerforarts.net; tickets may be purchased at
DCCA's office located within Greenville Public Library as well as
online at www.CenterForArts.net. Remaining tickets will also be
available at the door prior to the performance which begins at 8 p.m.
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