Are you craving some Celtic tunes with a captivating West Coast vibe?
Well, you’re in luck.
They’re called the Knacker’s Yard, a six piece Celtic traditional folk band with members from Victoria, Saanich, Metchosin and Sooke, whose specialty is performing traditional Celtic and English folk songs.
And they’re coming here next week Thursday, July 6, to perform at Willows Beach as part of the Oak Bay Concert Series, which runs from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
“Traditional music enthusiasts will appreciate the song-tales of lost love and betrayal, the misdeeds of ramblers and rakes, emigration, hard drinking and hard living, sea shanties and worker’s songs,” the Knacker’s Yard write on their website.
The band consists of Anatol Anton, Irish tenor banjo, Cody Baresich, Mandolin, vocals, Wolf Edwards, lead vocals, plectrum banjo, William FitzGerald, fiddle, Uilleann pipes and Irish whistles, Jon MacDonald on guitar and vocals, as well as Shaun McConnell on Bodhrán, chimes and bones.
Formed in Victoria in the spring of 2012, the band’s original intent was, and still is, to perform traditional Celtic and English folk songs, instrumentals and ballads dating from the 1600s up to the 1960s.
Their repertoire includes songs made popular by voices such as Ewan MacColl, Shirley Collins, Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Enoch Kent, Andy Irvine, Paul Brady and well-known musical groups such as the Dubliners, The Pogues, Corries, The Wolfe Tones, Planxty, De Danaan, and the Bothy Band to name a few.
For more info on their upcoming shows, please go to knackersyard.net/newsupcoming-shows/