The Irish Descendants

Today we're walking in the Cleveland rain.

Here they are, the Irish Descendants.

Actually, the first time I heard these guys was when John O'Brien ran the festival at the Westside Irish American Club.

We all call it John O'Brien's Festival, but now it's called the Irish Cultural Festival, and it's run by the family still.

She'll help her old man home again with a walk in the Irish rain.

Oh, Catherine, take my hand I've got three pounds of change And I'll sing you songs of love again And when I get too drunk to sing We'll walk in the Irish rain Oh, Catherine, take my hand I've got three pounds of change And I'll sing you songs of love again And when I get too drunk to sing We'll walk in the Irish rain We'll walk in the Irish rain

A walk in the Irish rain by the Irish descendants, and they're from Newfoundland, I think.

Here's Danu, and it's called the Highest Hill.

I was down this afternoon for a quick run through the show with my co-host, and we're just getting the vibe for the room there.

Lots of chairs out, soundchecking was sounding great, so I had a number of folks soundchecking who will be performing tonight, including with Violets, the Irish Descendants.

Of course, Kyle O'Brien will get the Lifetime Achievement Award tonight as he's getting one of those honorary awards this year, and a whole bunch of other things going on down there.

It's going to be a wonderful night.

jeez.

Darcy with Sons of Era and Irish Descendants, The Fables, now Black Gold, Kevin Evans with Evans and Doherty, Irish Descendants, Irish Rovers.

Almost everyone on that stage sat next Saturday night or Saturday the 17th will have anywhere from 40 to 50 years experience performing.

And so really know how to, individually, so really know how to play the audience and have fun with them.

From their self-titled first album, we'll have a set of reels associated with the late and great Jerry Holland, the Cape Breton fiddler who died at age 54 in 2009.

From there, we'll have a song from the very long-running Newfoundland band, the Irish Descendants.

First, here's Patouche Collective and Jerry Reels on The Kitchen Party, Cayley.

The Kitchen Party Thank you.

The time has been so long.

If I could get just one more chance to walk your rugged shore I'd trade the life I chose to make and go to sea no more I'd trade the life I chose to make and go to sea no more

The Irish descendants there, the band formed in 1990 in St. John's, Newfoundland, from the remains of two bands, Irish Coffee and the Descendants.

The members were all actual Irish descendants and all worked in the fishing industry.

He'll be there too.

Now, so I'm going to close out this preview with three songs, one each from the Men of the Deeps, the Irish Descendants, and Coic.

And I'll end up by saying, if you don't get the chance to attend this year's unique festival, which is quite likely, I suspect.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to this until late.

In fact, yeah, I might add that a trip to Cape Breton to see the spectacular fall colors is in itself worth doing if you do nothing else.

It's absolutely gorgeous this time of year.

And with this, we'll go out with three songs, beginning with one from the Irish descendants, one from Coig, and we'll close out with a song from the Men of the Deeps.

From the Irish Descendants box set album from 2024, we'll listen in on the hauntingly beautiful, iconic Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's, and we'll follow this with Time and Tide from Koag's album Ashlar, and we'll finish up this preview with, appropriately, a song from the Men of the Deeps titled If I Can't Take the Island With Me.