Band Announcement

Here's the upward career track of today's band:

1. Play Lincoln Center
2. Play for the President and Congress of the US
3. Play The Kansas City Irish Fest

New to Kansas City and the K.C. Irish Fest is Scythian*, coming to us from Washington D.C. While their ancestry may not be thoroughly Celtic (the band is made up by brothers Oleksander and Danylo Fedoryka, Michael Ounallah, and Josef Crosby) their shows are a frenzy of Irish inspired energy. No less of an authority than my friend Barry Stapleton at the Milwaukee Irish Fest says "With so many new bands in the Celtic market...Scythian stands out. They're innovative and fun: a blend of classical, Gyspy, bluegrass and Celtic music. While you're sure to enjoy their CDs, nothing can match their live shows where audience participation and dancing is a prerequisite."

They've been tearing up the festival circuit and when they get here in August, you'll see why, and how. Until then, here's a taste of what we can expect.

*The name? Wikipedia says: "The Scythians, a nation of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists originally of Iranian stock, who spoke an Iranian language, dominated the Pontic steppe throughout classical antiquity. Much of the surviving information about the Scyths comes from the Greek historian Herodotus (c. 440 BCE) in his Histories, and archaeologically from the exquisite goldwork found in Scythian burial mounds in Ukraine and Southern Russia." Well, if that doesn't sound like an Irish party band, I don't know what does.