WEDNESDAY FOLK TRADITIONS
presents
MacTalla Mor Band Playing Celtic Roots Music
July 23 at 6:30pm

HADLEY, MA. —The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum will continue its 27th season of Wednesday Folk Traditions on July 23, with MacTalla Mor, a family band playing Celtic music for the masses. The concert will be held in the Museum’s sunken garden beginning at 6:30 p.m., and picnicking on the grounds is welcome beginning at 5 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults and $2 for children 16 and under.

Mactalla Mor plays celtic inspired fusion style music blending Calypso, Jazz, Rock, and more, all blended with traditional celtic rhythms and instruments. They boast champion pipers, an award-winning Gaelic singer, and top-notch musicians. They have been featured at Caesar’s Palace NV, The Grandfather Mountain Highland Games ND, The Clearwater Festival (Great Hudson River Revival) NY, West Palm Beach Celtic Music Festival FL, Hooley on the Hudson NY, Irish 2000 Festival NY, Kentucky Scottish Weekend KY, Montreal Mondial Canada, Riverfolk Festival MI, and the Town Crier Café. They have released four CD’s all of which were greeted with anticipation and received rave reviews all around.
Mactalla Mor has been called “compelling and powerful” by the Ale Street News. The Luxury Experience Magazine has said “there is no musical limit for this family. “

The band consists of renowned Great Highland Bagpiper Jesse Ofgang of New York City’s Monaghan Pipe Band on Pipes, Whistles, Drums Percussion, and Vocals, his sister Ilana Regina on Piano, Organ, Bass Pedals and Vocals, their brother Levon on Bagpipes, Whistles, Percussion, and Vocals, their mom Patty Devlin Ofgang on Bodhran, Percussion and Vocals, their brother Songwriter and Magician “MageErik” on Bass, Vocals and Magic.
The 27th season of the WEDNESDAY FOLK TRADITIONS concert series concludes on July 30th with MarKamusic.

Wednesday’s performances are funded, in part, by grants from: the Marion I. And Otto C. Kohler Memorial Fund at the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts; The Hadley Cultural Council, a local agency, supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency; The New England States Touring Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possibl EMBED Word.Document.8 \s e with funding from the National Endowment of the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies; and with support from many local businesses.

The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum is located at 130 River Drive (Route 47) in Hadley, two miles north of the junction of Routes 9 and 47. The Museum is open for guided tours Saturday through Wednesday from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., and by appointment. For further information about the tours and the WEDNESDAY FOLK TRADITIONS series, call the Museum at (413) 584-4699.