Tosa Tonight - Ulla with The Bow Tides

Name: Tosa Tonight - Ulla with The Bow Tides
Start: 2024-08-14T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 6900 West State Street, Wauwatosa, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53213

Schedule

Wed Aug 14 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

6900 West State Street, Wauwatosa, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53213 | Wauwatosa, WI

We’re saving the fest for last. (See what we did there? 😉) That’s right, the always popular Milwaukee Irish Fest preview night brought to Tosa Tonight by Celtic MKE and The Milwaukee Irish Fest Foundation.
In 2024, this incredibly large celebration of Irish heritage runs from August 15th to the 18th with around 250 performances across 17 stages. Each year, roughly 130,000 people attend to enjoy Irish food, drink, culture, and music. Simply, they are there to enjoy Craic—the fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation particularly celebrated in Ireland.
We’d be remiss, too, if we did not mention our good friend and founder of Milwaukee Irish Fest Ed Ward. August 15th will be a good night to toast Ed with our favorite drink and say, “Sláinte in Heaven, Ed. Thank you for everything you have done for Irish music, Tosa Tonight, and our communities!”
Rousing up the evening first will be The Bow Tides. The Bow Tides is a powerhouse Celtic ensemble led by three Irish fiddlers: Ellery Klein, Jessie Burns and Katie Grennan. These dynamic women are veterans of the stage and studio, with a collective 15 years as the fiddlers with the Irish-American supergroup Gaelic Storm. Chances are you’ve danced the night away to the fiddling of one of these artists when they were with Gaelic Storm. Now get ready to do the same with The Bow Tides!
And if you’ve still got energy, you’re going to need it. Our headliner this evening will be extra special.
Joining us all the way from Austin, Texas (Texas? Yes, Texas!) will be the amazingly talented band ÚLLA.
Ulla came together organically via shared connections in the Austin music scene. All full-time musicians, Úlla is comprised of a bunch of Irish expats joined by several trad-Irish music fans to form a collective that share and celebrate a mutual love of Irish musical heritage. Pat Byrne (vocals and guitar), from Borris, County Carlow moved to Austin to work on writing and form a band to play his original music. Andrea Magee, of Austin staple Beat Root Revival (vocals, bodhran, whistle), from Belfast, County Antrim, grew up singing in a family band, learning traditional songs from her father and sisters as a teen. Rich Brotherton (vocals, guitar, cittern), grew up playing music in Augusta, Georgia. After college he spent two summers in Doolin, County Clare, soaking up traditional reels, jigs and songs. He later moved to Texas and toured for years with the Robert Earl Keen band. Rich now works as the proprietor of Ace Recording, a cosy, well-appointed studio in south Austin. Kris Wade (bass, vocals), from Houston, Texas, has played every style of music the Austin scene offers from swing (Emily Gimble/Marshall Ford Swing Band) to blues (Guy Forsyth) to pop (Pat Byrne) to funky-tonk(Doug Strahan and the Good Neighbors), and now Irish folk with Úlla, Kris has the bottom end covered with style and taste.
If you’re on Instagram, we recommend giving Andrea Magee a follow (@andreamageemusic). She posts many of her lively and energetic performances, standing and singing with bodhran in hand. She brings pop music sensibility to a Celtic-influenced music and it is a blast. We cannot wait to see her and Úlla on the Hart Park Rotary Performance Pavilion stage!
That concludes our performer announcements for 2024. We are thrilled about this upcoming season and hope you are too.
Be well, keep smilin’, and we’ll see you soon at Tosa Tonight! 😊