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Saturday, March 23, 2024
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Music
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Pioneering Celtic-punk-folk band Boiled In Lead celebrate 40 years of Rock ‘n’ Reel with a new album! From their first show in 1983 and with a star of the hallowed exterior of First Avenue, BiL has roared back as a guitar-forward band with new material and radical rearrangements of old favorites. The Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band will escort BiL onto the Parkway stage. Experimental folk duo Áit Ait open the show with their signature reinterpretations of traditional Irish songs.
Boiled In Lead celebrates its anniversary with a return to The Parkway stage and the release of a live album, 40 Years of Rock'n'Reel, available via digital download on the day of the show!
Last year's sold-out performance at The Parkway Theater saw the debut of the newest incarnation of BiL: Todd Menton (guitar) and Drew Miller (bass) with Mo Engel on drums and violinist/vocalist Haley Olson. Now those recordings are released on digital and CD — and the band is currently in the studio working on its next album.
Boiled In Lead is the longest-running Celtic punk band in America, and an important part of the foundation of what ultimately became Minnesota punk rock. Founded in 1983, the band continues to challenge itself with a wealth of new material, as well as looking backward to reframe old tunes.
Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü was among those who praised the band’s first self-released LP (“Even the Fiddles Rock”) and the Hüskers invited the band to play an early show at Goofy’s Upper Deck. Today, the band’s star is still on the exterior wall at First Avenue.
Enthusiastic, powerful, technically brilliant, and playing a wealth of instruments with extreme dynamics, Boiled In Lead routinely demolishes genres with its highly-identifiable sound.
“…the prime purveyor of a style of Celtic music infused with punk-rock attitude, developing over the years with a hard-driving swirl that combined Irish folk with heavy rock and elements of styles from all over the world. …one of the best bands Minnesota’s ever produced. …even without amplification, Boiled In Lead can summon up furious punk-folk energy.” — The Onion
Áit Ait (Irish for “strange place” or “uncanny valley”) are an experimental folk duo focused on reinterpretations of traditional songs – dark and deep, bright and sparkling; full of noise and life. Áit Ait (pronounced “ahh-tch eye-tch”) is Aja McCullough (song) and Patrick Maun(sound). The two set out to explore the living tradition that is Irish folk music – ever evolving and always changing, a solid footing set in the past but looking towards the future.
The Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band was established in 1962 to preserve and advance Celtic piping, drumming, and dancing. They are one of the oldest existing pipe bands in the Upper Midwest. Members of the band have performed with national acts, including The Chieftains, Green Day, Blink-182, and Rod Stewart, as well as alongside local acts. A fixture in parades, celebrations, and dances, the band adds a sense of tradition and spirit of pageantry to every program in which they participate.