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SEAMUS CARMICHAEL
Friday, September 19, 2025
Open Mic @ 6:30 PM
Concert @ 8 PM
$10

Seamus Carmichael is a traditional singer from County Derry, Northern Ireland. Now living in Pittsburgh, PA, he plays tin whistle and harmonica and has a vast store of songs both traditional and modern, comic and serious.

If you ask Seamus Carmichael how he got into singing traditional Irish music, he will tell you, “It is in the family. My mother was a genuine traditional singer. Growing up in a little farming community in the north of Ireland with the church as the social center of your life ... my mother would be asked to sing.” But, like most young people eager to blaze their own trail, he didn’t think much of it at the time. He preferred the music of Horslips, Steeleye Span and Planxty — bands who were drawing on traditional music but recasting it into the new Irish folk and folk rock formats of the times".

“Singers like Christy Moore of Planxty and Maddy Prior of Steeleye Span were a great inspiration to me in terms of the story songs they would sing.” Seamus notes that Christy Moore introduced him to the Child Ballads, a collection of over 300 Scottish and English ballads from the mid-19th Century “which I realized as I got a little bit more into it, were collected in the part of the world where I grew up.” Suddenly his mother’s songs made sense and became important to him. He is also inspired by Cathal McConnell from The Boys of the Lough, and Paddy Tunney “who was possessed of an angel’s voice... aah, his voice would just make you weep, it was so beautiful”.

Located at 77 West Main Street in Macedon, NY, 77 WEST MAIN is developing into a multi-functional music venue, offering a concert series, open mics, workshops, classes, and a meeting place for music groups and organizations.

Each concert begins with an open-mic followed by the main act performance. Suggested donation is $10.00. For more information and/or directions, call, email, or text.

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