Dublin, Ireland native (now residing in Seattle), Irish singer/songwriter Kevin McCormack is on a month-long Pacific Northwest Tour in May 2012. A few of his gigs landed him in Portland and we at 67 Music were eager to catch up with Kevin and have an exclusive chat with him before he moved off to yet another scheduled [...]
Article contributed by Cormac Pope, musician and Owner of Seattle Celtic Music. A few days ago I had the pleasure of meeting up with Geoffrey Castle. A local musician tearing up the stage with his six string electric violin. There is no shortage of press on this guy- he has been touring around the world and playing [...]
Many of you may know by now that 67 Music is in the midst of our promotion called the “Rocky Road to the Portland Marathon“. skOt Cranmore will be running in the Portland Marathon this fall (kilted!) in our campaign to raise funds to benefit local non-profit organization Artichoke Music‘s community outreach program, that benefits [...]
Recently on Tartan Day, (April 6th) three great bands got together and filled an entire evening with wonderful music. Our friends from Five Pint Mary crossed the Cascades again from Bend and brought with them two other acts 67 Music had yet to meet or hear. Naturally we seized the opportunity to attend and check [...]
Here’s a great young trio out of Denmark who call themselves Kasír. Kasír are: Oisín Walsh, bodhrán, Rune Cygan Barslund, accordion and whistles and Aske Fuglsang Ruhe, guitar, mandolin and octave mandolin. Their music is decidedly Celtic but has flavors of classical, funk, rock and other influences that [...]
67 Music is excited to feature one of our sponsors in our “Rocky Road to the Portland Marathon” campaign to benefit Artichoke Music’s Community Outreach Program. Some of you may know that skOt is running kilted in the Portland Marathon this Fall to benefit this wonderful music program. [...]
An exclusive 67 Music interview by Jamie Lynn Wright Meet Kevin McCormack, a 26 year old native of Ireland, who is making quite the splash in the Pacific NW Irish music scene. His high energy, upbeat and boisterous performance style gives way to a quiet, gentle and surprisingly humble persona. An Irishman through and [...]
We are very excited and proud to announce 67 Music’s very own skOt Cranmore will participate in the Portland, Oregon 2012 Marathon! Why? He and we are doing this for charity to benefit our own local Artichoke Music’s Community Outreach Program supporting underprivileged children and seniors with music related activities. For those of you who are not familiar with Artichoke [...]
Here’s a great Irish/Celtic rock band out of Bend, Oregon, USA. We first learned about them last summer when we were scouting out Highland Games and saw they were playing at a couple of Games in eastern Oregon. Fast forward to a month or so ago when we were finally able to catch [...]
Our newest Friends over at The Dublin Pub in Beaverton, Oregon have talked about bringing in more Irish and Celtic music to their venue. In an effort to ramp up that idea, we teamed up with Katie, JT and all the nice folks there and proudly present the “Sunday Night Celtic Music Series”, to be [...]