Local Seisún
Traditional Irish Instrumental Music

Saturday, March 13, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Chase Community Center, New Berlin

A Traditional Irish Instrumental Musical group will perform in New Berlin Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at the Heights Terrace Community Center. Local Seisún grew out of the social and musical congeniality at weekly Irish music sessions originally hosted by Steve Eisenberg at his antique shop in Bainbridge, NY. Now gatherings are held at the Susquehanna Café in Bainbridge. At public presentations they play traditional Irish music with the same informal spirit as at a session, similar to what was, and still is, played in homes and pubs in Ireland and in American cities where Irish immigrants and their descendents would gather in social community to share music stories, songs, refreshment and other forms of self-entertainment.

The instrumental music often accompanies dancing, and includes jigs, hornpipes, reels, slip jigs, polkas, slides and marches, as well as slow airs derived from songs. They enjoy it when anyone in the audience who feels like dancing to the music will get up and follow their inclination to do so.

The members of Local Seisún include:
Steve Eisenberg - Whistle, flute, bodhrán;
Rob Grassi - Mandolin, tenor banjo;
Jim Haggerty – Whistle;
Kathy Shimberg – Fiddle and Jean Withrow - Concertina

Thanks to our corporate sponsors for their support of the 35th Annual Performing Arts Series: Preferred Mutual Insurance Company; P&G Pharmaceuticals; Agro-Farma; Stewart’s Shops; and Golden Artist Colors.