Enter The Haggis: More than just "the other white meat"

I have always theorized that the next great wave of music to explode in America would come from a country other than ours.  There are too many great musicians playing today not to be affected by the originality of the harmonics in foreign sounds. The theory gets tested when

Enter The Haggis hits the Avalon on Friday, March 18^th at 8pm. Tickets are still available. 

 

The Avalon hosts a great Irish band the day after St. Patrick’s Day because the band is just too successful for the theater to afford them at any other time. They have been packing clubs around the world and will start on a tour of Germany in 2011. After capitalizing on St. Patrick’s Day in America. 

Irish for sure, but of a different nature, the band’s early music earned the descriptor “modern/high energy interpretations of traditional celtic & Irish songs”. They have since morphed into the much more unique and interesting moniker "Drop Kick Murphy's meets Green Day meets Freddy Mercury”. Personally I hear a lot of The Clash, R.E.M. and Paul Simon. 

Which may mean a lot to anyone looking for a “high energy rock and roll experience” on Friday.  The bagpipes, pan flute and fiddle are all here, but with ETH they are accompanied by powerful guitar work and musical segues that suggest any number of the great bands that came to national fame when the alternative music scene took over. And the alternative sounds fresh because of the Irish influence. They still sing about familiar Irish traditions, only the members are younger. One thing is for sure: the Irish are still having a blast at life, as in the days of yore, and we Americans are better for it.

-Tim Weigand