In the little hamlet of Flagstaff, Arizona, John McGregor bought a bottle of Bushmills Irish Whiskey and dove in head first. Ordinarily, this would be just another Tuesday afternoon. However, from this bottle of Bushmills, great inspiration was born. Thus began the journey of the Knockabouts, Arizona's favorite Celtic Pub Band.

Just like our founding beverage, the Knockabouts are the perfect blend of time-honored tradition, bawdy good taste, rowdy energy, and smooth harmonies. The Knockabouts' music brings the best of authentic traditional pub tunes, and blends them with a unique sound that can only come from a band that appreciates a good whiskey, the way the Knockabouts do.

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Kris Colt & The Black Rose Band have been popular attractions at Celtic fairs and festivals through out Southern California for the past several years. Kris is an accomplished singewriter-both lyricist and composer- whose debut CD The Voyage A Mystical Journey,is distributed by New Yorks Dara Records. Selections form The Voyage received national airplay across the United States and Canada and reached #26 on NAV national music chart.  The song"Has anybosy Seen Mary?" from the above inspired an entire Irish muiscal production in Hollywood for which she composed all the music.  Collt's current single, "Arms of a Stranger," from her upcoming album has alrready received acclaim on national commercial radio. She is extremely proud to work with her extraordinary band mates, Phil Ernst on guitar, Steve Ayvazion on vocals and percussion, Ed Lalo Lindgron on the classic Irish harp, and Peter Maloney on fiddle and mandoiline, while Kris herself as lead vocslist also plays the guitar, and ancient Irish Boddhron drum.

The Brick Top Blaggers is breathing new life into the Celtic music scene of Southern California. The band was started by guitarist Greg Mintz in the fall of 2009 and currently features Steve Almond (vocals), Dustin Lindberg (bass), Sonja Wyche (fiddle), Clement Barrera-Ng (mandolin), Matt Maulding (accordion/whistles), and Abe Rodrigues (drums). The band's love of traditional Irish music and hard-hitting punk rock bring aunique, signature sound to the streets from Los Angeles to San Diego.

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One night, fueled by a dare and more than their share of the brown, Patrick and Aaron picked up their instruments and melded together a concept; traditional Irish Music that could only be created with American-Irish heritage and poitin pumping through the veins. Excited by the concept of performing traditional Irish jigs and reels on electric guitars, they talked Samantha and Mark to join in on violin and upright respectively. The addition of Rich’s sophisticated, intricate, and trance educing drum patterns, dictated the move of Mark to electric bass and a Los Angeles Celtic music phenomenon, Green Ashes, was born.

With a Celtic sonic swagger, Green Ashes has built its reputation the Los Angeles local Irish bars playing curious mix of technically brilliant and yet drunkenly brazen folk rock. Determined to power their audience on Celtic music and drink, Green Ashes at times coaxes, and at others demands their audience into participation and celebration of the American-Irish music heritage. Their unique American interpretation of traditional Irish tunes breathes life into historic music, adding a slight edge, resulting with a uniquely different sound only possible by this group of 5 talented musicians.

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