St. Patty’s Day

by Nathaniel Landau on March 3, 2010

Lovely Day for a Guinness
Mar
17
8:00 pm

Celebrate St. Patty’s day with live music from the Strung Out String Band at 68 Jay St. Bar in DUMBO. We promise room temperature Guinness, great people and possibly some step dancing.

Now, you might be thinking to yourself, “Hey, don’t you guys play Americana? St. Patty’s day is for Irish music.” And you’d be right. But on St. Patty’s day we promise to play every fiddle tune we can think of based on an Irish melody and there’s plenty to pick from. We guarantee that after a few rounds you won’t know the difference.
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