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Through the years Kevin McKrell’s Saint Patrick’s celebrations have taken on legendary ‘I was there when’ status . With Donnybrook Fair, The McKrells, or as a solo if you didn’t spend Saint Pat’s singing along with Kevin was it really Saint Patrick’s. Friday March 13th at The Cohoes Music Hall will be one of Kevin’s final Saint Patrick’s performances. Kevin will be joined by Frank Orsini, with Arlin Greene and other TBA special guests.

Somewhere tonight, across the country or across the sea, a singer, sitting on a stool on a pub’s corner stage, is belting out a Kevin McKrell song, and the crowd is singing along. McKrell pioneered Celtic music, beginning in 1979 with Donnybrook Fair. The original trio’s 1982 album Tunnel Tigers remains a landmark of the form, with its blend of Clancy Brothers swagger and upstate NY attitude. McKrell honed his powerful performance style further in the 80s with The Fabulous Newports, a rambunctious harmony group known as much for its antics, cut-up comedy and long list of eventual members as for its sweet singing.

In 1998, McKrell—who has three solo albums to his credit—formed a powerhouse band under his own name, merging the Irish sensibility of Donnybrook with a steely, world class bluegrass edge. The McKrells toured harder than Donnybrook, bringing its music, with McKrell’s lusty vocals supported by hot string band picking, to Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center and festivals and concert venues around the country. The band, in its current incarnation, many members on, released its eighth album, My Big Old Broken Heart, in 2018. Making it to number 14 on the top 100 of 518ers.

Offstage, McKrell, is a respected painter, with his work hanging in many of the halls he’s haunted, here and in Ireland, Scotland and Italy. He is best known however for his indelible songs—folk classics like “Donegal,” “I Miss the Rain” and the eternal “All of The Hard Days Are Gone”—which, in addition to the raft of pub singers mentioned afore, have been recorded and or performed by artists from around the world including, from Ireland ,The Furey Brothers ,The Druids , Seamus Kennedy, The Dublin City Ramblers, Kilkenny from Scotland North Sea Gas, from Australia Pat McKernan from the U.S. The Kingston Trio, Hair of the Dog ,Wood’s Tea Company ,Bob Shane, Get Up Jack and many many more. Kevin has performed in theaters ,clubs and on festival stages across the United States, Canada , Ireland and the U.K. Kevin and his bands have performed for audiences at the top Celtic, Folk and Bluegrass festivals as well as Carnegie Hall , Lincoln Center, Troy Music Hall, Caffé Lena , Berklee Performance Hall , Proctors Theater, The Sellersville Theater, Saratoga Performing Arts Center. The Egg, North Texas Irish Festival, The Landmark Theater Syracuse, Milwaukee Irish Festival ,Celtic Classic, The Great American Irish Festival, MusikFest, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Winterhawk Bluegrass festival are some of the top venues where Kevin and his bands have appeared.