Woody Pines in Ireland, 24-9 May 2013

As Loudon Temple of the Brookfield Knights agency in Britain announced last summer, the band Woody Pines, based in Asheville, North Carolina, are making a month-long tour in these islands, ending on 2 June 2013.

Announcing themselves as playing 'viper jazz, ragtime, and country blues', in April 2012 Woody Pines played a short but successful tour in Ireland, beginning with the Red Room, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, and including Clonmel World Music in Co. Tipperary, where their shows were sold-out. The shows on this year's tour are as listed on their online schedule:

Fri. 24th May: Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow
Sat. 25th: Seamus Ennis Cultural Centre, Naul, Co. Dublin
Sun. 26th: The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
Mon. 27th: The Atlantic Bar, Portrush, Co. Londonderry
Tues. 28th: The Red Room, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone
Wed. 29th: Balor Arts Centre, Ballybofey, Co. Donegal