Blaggards
shake, shock, and rock traditional Irish music it to give it a Texas-tinged
flavor all its own. Their high-flying sensibility
tips its hat to The Pogues and Dropkick Murphys, ignoring stale green beer in
favor of stout Irish rock. The tight vocal harmonies of Dubliner Patrick Devlin and Chad Smalley are supported by the accomplished fiddling of Chris Buckley, who has won awards in the Midwestern Fleadh Cheoil and competed in two All-Ireland world competitions, and the rock steady beats of first-generation Scots-American Michael McAloon, a gold medal-winning Irish step-dancer. The Blaggards bring their music to the homeland with a spring tour of Ireland in 2010!
Blaggards set list includes traditional Irish music and cover versions of folk and country favorites with an Irish accent: Whiskey in the Jar Rocky Road to Dublin Irish Rover Waxie's Dargle Big Strong Man Foggy Dew Drunken Sailor Botany Bay Nancy Whiskey Spancil Hill Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash) Suspicious Minds (Elvis Presley) The Devil Went Down to Georgia (Charlie Daniels Band) Sally MacLennane (The Pogues)
Click on the song titles below to hear The Blaggards in action!
