06/10/2019
Joe Shannon loved Ireland. Joe also created Mountain Home Music (MHM) to encourage and share Appalachian music with the rest of the world some 26 years ago. Joe was an accomplished musician and teacher, and developed the concert series that now bears his name, Joe Shannon's Mountain Home Music. His love of the roots of our musical heritage led him to his ancestral homeland, Ireland, and he took many of his friends and musical family along with him in informal tours of the Emerald Isle, a tradition that continues to this day.
In fact, next summer we will be making our fifth trek to Ireland to continue Joe's quest of finding our musical heritage and visiting the places that inspired those musical traditions. Led for the fifth time by Irish storyteller, performer, and tour guide since 1991, Mr. Batt Burns (www.battburns.com), we will tour some of the traditional Irish attractions and spend a couple of days in a small Irish village, Sneem, soaking up the culture and beauty of this lovely country.
Our adventure runs from June 25 - July 6, 2020 and we invite you to consider travelling with us. Most of our tour consists of non-musicians who love to experience the beauty and culture of Ireland, while those of us who do play music enjoy the opportunity to listen to and play with the Irish musicians we will encounter in our hotel or in pubs.
If you might be interested in learning more about this tour, please contact me, Bob Goddard at [email protected] for an itinerary and pricing schedule.