Sure, there may be no Thanksgiving in Ireland, but tonight we give thanks both for and with the Irish musicians in America who have made such a huge imprint on the cultural legacy here and back in their ancestral home.

Mick Moloney, legendary Irish American musician, folklorist and National Heritage Award-winner and “living cultural treasure” will lead a virtuosic Celtic Appalachian celebration highlighting the cultural traditions that have blended over centuries in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the North Carolina hills. This fertile exchange has produced some of America’s oldest musical forms, such as bluegrass and old-time music that retain so much of their core DNA first brought to this original American “melting pot” by Scotch-Irish immigrants.

Mick Moloney on banjo, fiddle, bouzouki, and vocals will perform in a trio that is at the heart of his Green Fields of America Ensemble, which includes Athena Tergis on fiddle, and Baltimore’s own king of the Irish button box accordion, Billy McComiskey. For this amazing show, two of the greatest oldtime musicians alive, Eddie Bond on fiddle and vocals, and Kirk Sutphin on banjo, will travel up from the North Carolina/Virginia border for their own set of music and to collaborate with their musical friends.

8:00pm | ADV: $25, $22mbrs. DOOR: $28, $25 mbrs.

Specail thanks to the Virginia Folklife Program of the Virginia Foundation of the Humanities for Eddie Bond & Kirk Sutphins inclusion in this special program.