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An Evening Of Irish Music And Good Food

7/31/2023

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​AN EVENING OF IRISH MUSIC AND GOOD FOOD

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      Last month I posted a blog on the wonderful Irish band that played every Sunday evening on the patio of the Blarney Stone Tavern (see post from 6/11/2023, https://www.ailantha.com/blog/the-blarney-stone-tavern-irish-patio-band),
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...of which my good friend Carol, a brilliant Irish fiddler, is a member.
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     Recently the band moved their Sunday evening performance location from The Blarney Stone to the Smokehouse Brewing Company, a microbrewery and barbeque eatery located in the Columbus suburb of Grandview Heights.
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     On July 16 my mate Tom and I met some friends there to hear the band play in their new digs and to eat some barbeque.
​        The interior of the Smokehouse Brewing Company has a friendly brew pub décor, 
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...and a great area for the band to play and for the audience to enjoy the still wonderful traditional Irish music,
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...created by the fiddlers,
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...flutists
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...and players of the accordion,
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...harp,
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...dulcimer,
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...banjo and guitar,
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...bouzouki,
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...and an Irish drum called the Bodhran.
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    It was in the music room close to the band that most of the diners had gathered, ​
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...and where we likewise joined our friends for dinner,
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...and happily discovered that the food was yummy and the portions copious. 
​      Among us we had the brisket platter,
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...the brisket sandwich loaded with onion straws,
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...and the brisket and chicken sampler.
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    The drinkers among us (myself not included) opted to try the dark brews, which they pronounced very good.
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        And so we spent a lovely evening tapping our feet to lively jigs,
...and reels, 
...or listening to the beautiful ballads led by the band's Irish tenor.
      For the information of any music-lovers who live in the Columbus area, the band now plays at several venues during the week.
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     How lucky we are here in Columbus to be gifted with such a musical gem.
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