Archive for Thursday, March 17, 2005
Irish music on Sunday extends St. Patrick's Day
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Steamboat's favorite fiddle player, Jessie Burns, will be back in town this weekend as part of a two-week reunion tour with The Wayfarers.
Two years ago, she left Steamboat Springs for Boulder to join the Celtic band. Now, that chapter in her life has ended.
The Wayfarers disbanded last fall when guitar player Sean Sutherland left for Maine.
Since then, the members of the band have been working on scattered musical projects.
The three remaining members of The Wayfarers -- Cristel Rice, Jefferson Hamer and Burns -- have played a few gigs together, but they have been "few and far between."
"I would really miss it if Boulder didn't have a great Irish music community," Burns said. "There is an Irish session every Sunday night at Connor O'Neil's Irish Pub where people play for six or seven hours, so I'm fine."
The Wayfarers will be reuniting for two weeks while Sutherland visits, making stops in Salida, Cripple Creek, Steamboat and Boulder.
Sutherland left in September just after the band played a farewell gig at the Festival of the Mabon.
"We got to play with some of our heroes of Irish music," Burns said. "It was a great final concert and a great way to end our time together. But Sean missed us so badly that he had to come back for a while."
Attendees at Sunday's show can expect original arrangements of traditional Irish music along with some older American and French Canadian music.
"We want to show some of the different influences of Celtic music once it left Ireland," Burns said.
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