The Irish Are Coming: Irish Music in Missoula and Butte

Montana Public Radio | By Beth Anne Austein

Published August 30, 2013 at 9:03 PM MDT

"Front Row Center," Sunday, September 1st, 2013: Michael Marsolek talks with Traolach O'Riordain, Director of the Irish Studies Program at The University of Montana, about the Fall 2013 Irish Music Concert Series hosted by the Friends of Irish Studies of the West.

Schedule:

September 19th & 20th, Missoula and Butte: Simon & Maria O'Dwyer, lecture and music on ancient Irish instruments;

September 26th & 27th, Missoula and Butte: Grainne Hambly with William Jackson, Irish and Scottish harps;

October 17th & 18th, Missoula and Butte: Roger Landes, bouzouki;

November 7th & 8th, Missoula and Butte: Meabh Ni Bheaglaoich & Paidi Mharthain, traditional sean nos Gaelic songs;

December 5th & 6th, Missoula and Butte: Liam O Maonlai, traditional and contemporary songs.

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Beth Anne Austein

Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.

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