Patrick Street live in Austin/Texas, October 2008, Celtic Folk Festival

Patrick Street is not a man. Nor is Patrick Street an address. Patrick Street, an exciting quartet of Irish music virtuosos, is the reigning "supergroup" in traditional Irish music. The all-star band has enchanted fans and critics around the world for the past seventeen years with what the Boston Globe once called its "rare combination of breathtaking virtuosity and the relaxed grace of masters, playing this ancient music at its wild and humble best." The members of Patrick Street--Kevin Burke (fiddle), Andy Irvine (bouzouki, mandolin and lead vocals), John Carty (fiddle, banjo) and Ged Foley (guitar and vocals)--helped create the sound of modern Celtic music in the 1970s, playing in such seminal groups as the Bothy Band, Planxty, DeDannan and the Battlefield Band. Since joining forces in the 1980s as Patrick Street, the four men have only gotten better with age--according to the Washington Post, "There's no better Celtic music group in the world right now than Patrick Street."

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love this song from the number 2 album i believe