Events

Award-winning Galway quartet We Banjo 3 (WB3) presents a festive holiday live stream, “A Winter Wonderful” – an evening of world-class music featuring a special WB3 performance, plus a stellar lineup of special guests, including Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Skerryvore, The Whileaways, BackWest and Ajeet. 

Featuring banjos plus fiddle, mandolin, guitar, vocals and percussion, We Banjo 3 is renowned for its rich, extraordinary Irish music, influenced by Old-Time American and Bluegrass.

This one-night-only event airs on December 18 at 7 pm CST.  Event tickets are $20, with limited edition merchandise bundles available at higher price points. Cozy up, settle in, and enjoy a holiday party with WB3! 

To purchase tickets for the event, go to https://goaff.pro/Chestnut 

To shop merchandise, go to: https://shop.webanjo3.com/?toolbar=Chestnut&ref=Chestnut

You can learn more about and hear the band at  www.webanjoy3.com

By purchasing tickets and merchandise through the Chestnut Center (links above), you will be helping the Chestnut Center with their fundraising efforts toward a new roof and chimney, as well as supporting your local arts community. 

When this band of brothers takes flight in a wave of virtuosity, verve and joie-de-vivre, feet tap and pulses race. Enda and Fergal Scahill along with David and Martin Howley are among the most celebrated and distinguished young musicians in Ireland today.

Featuring banjos plus fiddle, mandolin, guitar, vocals and percussion, We Banjo 3+1 makes a bold musical statement. Creativity, sensitivity and passion are present in full measure, and Irish music is at the heart of what they play.

Earle Hitchner, music writer for the Wall Street Journal, writes that We Banjo 3+1 has a “freshness and finesse bordering on the magical.”

Collectively, the members of We Banjo 3+1 have been at the forefront of Irish banjo and fiddle music for two decades. Their competitive success is unrivalled, with Martin holding seven All-Ireland Banjo Champion titles and Enda four. Multi-instrumentalists Fergal and David hold All-Ireland titles on Fiddle, Bodhran, Guitar and Banjo.

Enda has recorded and performed with The Chieftains, Frankie Gavin, Stockton’s Wing, Grammy-winner Ricky Skaggs and “Instrumental Band of the Decade” The Brock McGuire Band. Fergal has performed with David Munnelly, Martin O’Connor and Kevin Crawford, and has also toured the world with Ragus and Celtic Legends. Martin was the very first Irish banjo player to perform at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. David is fast building a reputation for his deep, muscular singing.

We Banjo 3+1 plays with swing and soul, effortlessly combining the best of Irish and Bluegrass banjo music and song, mining the rich vein of the American Old-Time tradition, and thoroughly reinventing the banjo band sound. Modern rhythms, traditional melodies, virtuosic technique and innovative arrangements of music and song add up to an incredible feast.