Steeped in the Living Tradition

Finvarra's Wren is one of North America's most exciting Irish quartets. "Making the kind of music you'd only hear on the west coast of Ireland",  this Detroit, Michigan based band has an intense dedication to their instruments and to Irish music. As a family based group, Finvarra's Wren is capable of playing with a tightness and effortlessness that often evades other ensembles. Their performances have been described as "a swirl of musical tradition and performance energy". Finvarra's Wren has performed at many of North America's top music festivals and venues including the Kennedy Center, the Goderich Celtic Festival, BlissFest, Celtic Fest Mississippi and Ann Arbor's prestigious Ark.
 
The band is led by Detroit Irish music scene stalwarts Jim Perkins and Cheryl Burns, well known for their sensitive vocals and the inventive musical weaving of Jim's guitar and Cheryl's mountain dulcimer and bodhran. Powerhouse brother-sister duo Asher (button accordion and concertina) and Alison Perkins (vocals, fiddle and tin whistle) are world renowned for their award winning playing. Each member of the family has enjoyed successful careers as musical performers, teachers and recording artists. 

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Mississippi Celtic Festival Director Don Penzien says: "Finvarra’s Wren unequivocally ranks in topmost echelon of American bands performing Irish traditional music today. With expert musicianship from every quarter, the band’s imaginative interpretations of tunes and songs are wholly true to the Irish tradition."

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Alison Live in Ireland
"The Job of Journeywork" set dance
in this Comhaltas Tutorial Video

Schedule
2012

Friday, March 16, 2012
6:30 pm Irish Dinner - 7:30 pm concert
Ten Pound Fiddle
At the Creole Gallery, Lansing MI
There are only 100 seats so advanced tickets are a must.

Saturday, March 17
1:30 - 4:30 Friendly Sons of St. Patrick party at Solanus Casey K.of C, Roseville MI

Friday March 23 5:30 - 10:00
Ferris State University
Gala Fundraiser, Holiday Inn
Big Rapids Mi.

Sun March 25 - 2:00 PM.
Clinton Township Library.
40900 Romeo Plank Rd.
Free admission but call to reserve seat. May sell out. 586-226-5020

Wednesday May 9 - 4 PM.
FW. plays a high tea at Christ Church Cranbrook. 470 Church Rd.. Bloomfeild Hills Mi. 248 644 5210

Sat. June 2 - 6:00 pm
Sun. June 3 - 4:30 pm
Motor City Irish Fest.
West Graham Field, adjacent to
St. Valentine's Church
14841 Beech Daly Road,
Redford Township, MI 48239

Fri, Sat, Sun. July 27, 28, 29
Dayton Celtic Festival - Dayton Ohio

Saturday August 18, 3:30 till 8:30 "Celtic Double Header" With Finvarra's Wren and Canadian Band - Rant Maggie Rant.
200 South Main St. Evart, Mi.

Wednesday, August 29 - 7:00 pm
Summer Music by the Mill
Linden, MI

Saturday, Sept 1
Thumbfest
Lexington, MI

Sept 7, 8, 9
Celtic Fest MS - Jackson Mississippi

Contact us

finvarraswren@earthlink.net

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