Boston Rovers Irish Band from Wilmington, MA

MAKING SMILES ONE SONG AT A TIME JIM MURRAY - Manager and singer. Jim plays the guitar, mandolin and the Irish Bodhran Drum. Jim started his music career in musical comedies with various regional and semi-professional theatre groups around New England. Jim now is the manager, promoter and entertainer for three musical groups, one of them The Boston Rovers. His baritone voice lends a certainly quality to the musical performances . Jim has participated in musical performances in various locations around the world from England and Germany to Beijing and Shanghai ,China. While on his last tour of China, Jim and The Boston Rovers played at the Beijing International Folk Festival. The highlight of this tour was the unique pleasure of performing at two (2) of Beijing Universities; where as always, Jim and The Boston Rovers were received warmly and with great pleasure by the universities student body. Paul Harty: Singer/Guitar/Mandolin/Fiddle/Harmonica, etc. Paul is a seasoned performer in the folk, Irish, country, swing and bluegrass worlds. Paul says: "I was bitten by the Folk Bug as a teenager in the 1960s and have never recovered." Paul has traveled to China, England and Germany with the Jolly Rogues and has recordings with the Jolly Rogues, North Country, Blunt Instruments and St. James Gate. The Moody St String Band, the Reiner Family Band and O'Carolan, Etc also utilize Paul's talents on occasion . Taylor Whiteside performed for many years both as a solo folksinger and in the Irish band Northeast Winds, which opened for The Clancy Brothers on their US tours from 1985 through 2000. He also played backup for Tommy Makem during Tommy's solo years. He also is a member of The Brandywine Singers, a folk quartet that was big in the Sixties, (now we're all well over sixty – no, scratch that) and performs frequently with The Shaw Brothers (New Hampshire's "ambassadors of folk"). For several years he performed in Newfoundland in clubs and on the CBC. He has also worked with Irish tenor John McNally, The Kingston Trio, Crystal Gayle, Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey, Maloney, O'Connell and Keane, The Highwaymen, The Brothers Four, Jim Kweskin, Patrick Sky, Norman Blake, Dave Mallett, Utah Phillips, Josh White, Jr. Larry Young (aka Tobias Tripp) graduated from Dartmouth College where he majored In music and studied violin with Andrew Jennings and music history with Charles Hamm. Performing on violin,viola,guitar,cittern and voice and regularly runs Irish Sessions at O’Neils Irish Pub in Salem every Friday and Sunday night. From the Boston Herald November 2015 As the crowds slowly poured through the gates on Yawkey Way and the excitement began to build outside of Fenway Park, the music seemed to get louder and louder and the band kicked it into another gear. You could hear the accordion from a mile away. And, as you pushed through the turnstiles, you felt as if you had just walked into Ireland. An environment designed for baseball activities effectively transformed into an Irish festival. Not one person inside the gates was complaining. The five-member band Boston Rovers played harmoniously on the sidewalk, the crowd around them growing. The Wilmington-based Celtic band played some favorites — "Valparaiso," among others — but when they started playing "Whiskey In The Jar," things got serious. As spectators sang and even danced along, Jim Murray, the band's bodhran drummer, selected people from the crowd, tapping them on the shoulder to come up and sing in front of a crowd. "Are you having a good time?" he asked one woman. Good times were truly had by most yesterday at Fenway, where Irish men and women traveled from far and wide for a hurling match between Irish giants Dublin and Galway, the first of its kind at Fenway in 61 years. Authors Stephen Hewitt

• Sailing Home to Connemara | Taylor Whiteside
• Finnegan's Wake
• Rattlin' Bog
• Fields Of Athenry
• Courtin' In The Kitchen
• Molly Malone
• Caledonia
• Inisheer
• Smash the Windows/ Donnybrook Fair
• Swallow Tail/Kesh
• Tripping To the Well / Maggie in the Woods
• Johnson's Motor Car
• St Ann's Reel
• Si Bheag Si Mhor
• The Mermaid
• Maggie May
• Star of the County Down
• Four Green Fields
• Irish Lullaby
• Red is The Rose
• Butcher Boy
• Irish Eyes
• King of the Fairies
• Off She Goes
• Speed the Plow
• Mason's Apron
• Charlie on the MTA
• Wild Rover
• Th Unicorn Song
• The Wild Rover
• Isn't Grand Boys
• Hills of Connemara
• Nancy Whiskey
• Gypsy Rover
• Forty Shades of Green
• Brennan on The Moor
• Rosin the Bow
• Whiskey in the Jar
• Black Velvet Band
• Danny Boy
• All Around My hat
• Wild Colonial Boy
• Old Maid in the Garrett
• I'll tell Me Ma
• Irish Rovers | Jolly Rogues
• Mason's Apron | Jolly Rogues
• Leaving of Liverpool | Jolly Rogues