Friday, November 15

Sound & Spirit: John Doyle & Mick McAuley

Time: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join us on Friday, November 15th at 7:00 pm for the opening of this season's Sound & Spirit with legendary Irish musicians John Doyle and Mick McAuley! This concert is free and open to all.

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Sound & Spirit at Northminster

About the Artists

John Doyle and Mick McAuley have been playing music together on the international stage for over twenty years. As multi-instrumentalist members of the Irish-American supergroup SOLAS, they combined to create part of the group’s groundbreaking sound, which garnered critical worldwide acclaim. Individually, they have played and recorded with some of the most respected musical artists in the world and are, themselves, among the most highly regarded musicians in the Irish folk world. Over the last several years, the two have toured extensively as a duet all over Europe and the U.S. Both natives of Ireland and each from musical families, Doyle and McAuley have a unique, nearly telepathic musical connection and are true powerhouses in traditional Irish music.

As members of SOLAS, the two performed to sold-out audiences internationally and made multiple appearances on many renowned National Public Radio programs in the U.S., such as A Prairie Home Companion, E-Town, World Cafe Live, and Mountain Stage. John Doyle has since gone on to tour and record with some of the great artists of the Folk, Celtic, and Bluegrass worlds, including Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Tim O’Brien, Jerry Douglas, Kate Rusby, Eileen Ivers, to name a few. Mick McAuley has since gone on to play with renowned 17-time Grammy-winner Sting for several years, has made several solo albums, and has appeared with artists such as Patti Larkin, Mick Moloney, Karan Casey, and Mary Chapin Carpenter, to name a few.

While both John Doyle and Mick McAuley’s music is rooted in the Irish tradition, they are part of a movement that continues to push the musical boundaries of that tradition to bring Irish music to a wider and more diverse audience around the world. Doyle’s singing and rhythmic guitar sound along with McAuley’s virtuosic instrumental skills (accordion, melodeon, concertina, whistles and guitar) make for a concert of one of the most dynamic and versatile duets in folk music today.