Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Paddy Homan at The Wilmette Theatre

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Chicago's favorite Irish Tenor Paddy Homan, who is bringing his concert “Songs of the Emerald Isle,” to the Wilmette Theatre. This lively and celebratory concert will put concertgoers in the St. Patrick’s Day mood with a medley of Irish songs. While Chicagoans may dye the river green, there will be a distinct green sound of lilting Irish music and song at The Wilmette Theatre. There will be sing-alongs from ‘Whiskey in the jar’ to the ‘Black velvet Band’ with a unique Cork version. Homan will perform several songs off his new cd, “The Hard Way Home,” which was released in December 2013 and received “Best Male Vocal Album” in the 2014 Live Ireland Music Awards, based in Dublin, Ireland. 

Homan will be joined by...

Master guitarist Dennis Cahill is a native Chicagoan born to parents from
County Kerry, Ireland. Many Irish music fans
know him as the artful and deft guitarist accompanying renowned fiddle player Martin Hayes in concerts around
the world—including Japan or the Country Music
Hall of Fame in Nashville, NPR's Tiny Desk concert series and even the Obama White House.

The heartbeat of Chicago's
music scene for more than three decades, John Williams is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist who performs 300
events a year on over 10 instruments. Selected
as Best in Chicago by Chicago Magazine, Williams is an “All Ireland Champion”
on the concertina. Williams has
appeared on the silver screen as bandleader and composer in two films: The Traveller with Julianna Margolies and Mark
Wahlberg and Road to Perdition with Paul Newman and Tom Hanks who
performed his Perdition Piano Duet
especially commissioned for the scene by director Sam Mendes. His music can be heard in the film scores
of The Brothers McMullen, The Ride of Our Lives, and Rapunzel with the London
Symphony Orchestra. He has
appeared nine times as a soloist with the Metropolis Symphony Orchestra at Chicago Symphony Center
as well as twice appearing on NPR's A Prairie
Home Companion.  

Teresa Shine, a Chicago native who both
teaches and performs in the
Chicago Irish music scene, rounds out the trio. Raised on the Southwest Side of Chicago, Teresa was introduced
to Irish music by her fiddle teacher Phil
Durkin, a native of County Sligo, Ireland. Today, Teresa teaches Irish music classes at the Old Town School
of Folk Music and at Gaelic Park in Oak Forest.
She also leads Irish music sessions at Molly Malone’s Restaurant in Forest Park, Clancy’s in Oak Lawn and
at Shinnick’s Pub in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood.

Tickets are $22 in advance, $25 at the
door: www.wilmettetheatre.com or
by calling the box office at: 847-251-7424