Chieftains Concert

Finale
Originally uploaded by peachicken.

What an amazing concert! Tim and I went to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark on St. Patrick's Day (actually the day after)to see The Chieftains perform live along with The Cottars. The Chieftains are amazing musicians. Each of them played a song by themselves with no accompaniment. My favorite moment in the concert was when Matt Malloy had his flute solo - all you could hear was his flute and hundreds of people tapping their feet to his beat. "Good man, Matt!" But seriously, the only way to ruin a Chieftains concert is to include a country-western guitar player and a random Chinese pianist. Come on, guys. Stick to the Irish music, don't adulterate it! Overall, it was a good concert, even including their anticipated encore where they had an Irish conga line.