PORT TOWNSEND — Gaelic songs, tunes and dance music will be performed at the Friends Meeting Hall on Monday.
The concert of Scottish music by Katie McNally, Neil Pearlman and Elias Alexander will be at 7:30 p.m. at the meeting hall at 1841 Sheridan St.
General admission will be $15; children will be admitted for $10. Advance tickets are available at Mcnally PearlmanAlexander.bpt.me.
Hailing from extreme corners of the U.S., McNally, Alexander and Pearlman draw on West Coast Gaelic melodies and bagpipe tunes. They weave Gaelic songs and mouth-music with expressive tunes and percussive Cape Breton dance, concert organizers said.
McNally released her debut album, “Flourish,” in 2013, playing the fiddle with Pearlman on piano and Shauncey Ali on viola. In 2016, she released “The Boston States.”
Fluent in both the Scottish and Cape Breton fiddle traditions, McNally has appeared across North America at the Newport Folk Festival, the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes and the Celtic Music Interpretive Centre in Cape Breton.
Alexander has distinguished himself in traditional music circles as a piper, singer, composer and sometime comedian, organizers of the concert said.
Co-founder of Afro-Celtic Funk band Soulsha and the leader of Elias Alexander and Bywater Band, he has appeared with Carlos Nunez, Alasdair Fraser and Gillebride MacMillan, and has performed at such festivals as Celtic Connections in Glasgow.
Pearlman tours with his own band, Alba’s Edge, whose debut album, “Run to Fly,” was produced by fiddler Aidan O’Rourke. Pearlman tours and records with the top Celtic musicians in North America, including 2015 Canadian Folk Music Award winner Adrianna Ciccone.
Contact the Friends Meeting Hall clerk at clerk@ptquaker.org or 360-797-5372 for directions or confirmation of accommodations.
