Across the Pond - check us out! Celtic Band from New Oxford, PA

AWARD-WINNING Across the Pond performs for Irish and Celtic Weddings from North Carolina to Quebec and Ontario in Canada. And they perform for Irish & Celtic festivals, European & International festivals, corporate events, colleges & universities, night clubs & pubs, municipal concerts, performing arts centers, and private parties. They have performed for state & national conventions, and have opened for international musicians such as Scotland's Jim Malcolm (of Old Blind Dogs) and Canada's Enter the Haggis. Across the Pond is Michael Morrison, Molly Shortridge, Lavinia Reid, and Dan Diviney, the Mid-Atlantic States' tried and true Celtic folk group. With ancestral blood of Ireland and Scotland pumping through their veins, they breathe new life into traditional tunes and songs with their unique and exciting arrangements. Their high-energy, traditional Irish & Scottish music is uniquely their own. Named in the Top 20 Celtic Folk bands in the World for 2014 by the Celtic Music Podcast, Across the Pond's high energy performances are sure to get everyone's attention early and hold it until the last note. They have lovey hauntingly beautiful slow airs sure to make you wedding ceremony or reception memorable. In March 2015, they were announced co-winners of the Texas Scots Talent Competition. Their song I Know My Love was named Top Celtic Song for 2015 in the Contemporary category by Celtic Music Radio, and another track was nominates Best Roots Traditional set. They have been booking many weddings, both with The Bash and directly, and are playing weddings in Washington, DC, Baltimore, Lancaster, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, State College, Virginia Beach, Montreal, Niagara-on-the-Lake and many, many more places. The band can perform music for the ceremony, cocktail hour and reception. Their repertoire includes both Irish & Scottish tunes and songs. And they can add some Appalachian Mountain music if requested. They are easy to work with and do their best to help make your wedding an especially memorable experience. Mike grew up playing bluegrass, old-time and blues guitar, eventually branching out into rock and country. He began performing full time in 1995 with country rockers Latigo Smith before moving on to help form regional powerhouse Hired Guns. Nowadays Mike carries a full schedule of guitar students, as well as being a first-call, freelance artist for a variety of genres. Across the Pond is his first Celtic band. Molly Shortridge (B.M., Temple University), started out her music career as a music therapist and classical flutist but became enamored with Celtic music over the years. As the owner of a music and arts center, “The Perfect 5th”and also “The Fluteplace of Central PA”, she maintains a large teaching studio. Molly has taught flute pedagogy seminars at national and regional conventions, and workshops in colleges. She has also performed in orchestras, ensembles, and as a soloist, throughout central PA and Italy. Additionally, she is a published artist who specializes in flute related artwork. She performs with Across the Pond on an array of flutes; from the silver Boehm flute, a wooden 6-holed Celtic flute, whistles, alto flute, piccolo, and more. Dan has been playing whistles and bodhran at Irish sessions throughout the US and Ireland since 1999. He was self-taught on both instruments and can't read a lick of music. He plays a Seamus O'Kane bodhrán (rack & pinion model) and Burke, Reyburn & Copeland whistles. Dan hosts two traditional Irish seisiuns at the Garryowen Irish Pub in Gettysburg each month. He previously formed two other Irish bands, and has recently begun performing solo. Lavinia Reid is a third-generation fiddler, who started private instruction at age seven in Ithaca, NY. Her grandfather, a fiddling blacksmith from Cumberland, Md., jammed with her on Celtic tunes, and her mother was concert mistress of her high school orchestra. Lavinia was concert mistress of her junior high orchestra, but by high school played professionally. She was a founding member of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, played four years with the Pro Musica String Quartet until her move to PA in 1999, and has also played in rock, blues, country and jazz-fusion genres with various bands through the years. She is also a gifted composer, focusing on children’s ballets, opera, and musical theatre. Her works have been regularly performed in both Pennsylvania and New York. Our listed pricing range includes from 1-hour, local gigs, to much longer weddings and corporate events, both nationally and internationally.

• Planxty Irwin | Turlough O'Carolan
• Sí Beag Sí Mór | Turlough O'Carolan
• County Down | Tommy Sands
• 69th Street Polka | traditional
• Another Jig Will Do | traditional
• Arran Boat Song | traditional
• Bank of Ireland | traditional
• Banks of Spey | traditional
• Blarney Pilgrim | traditional
• Blood of Cu Chulain | traditional
• Boys of Blue Hill | traditional
• Brenda Stubberts Reel | unknown
• Castle Kelly | traditional
• Chief O'Neill's Favorite | traditional
• City of Chicago | Luka Bloom
• Connaught Rambles | traditional
• Denis Murphy's Polka | traditional
• Donnybrook Fair | traditional
• Down by the Glenside | traditional
• Eagle's Whistle | traditional
• East to Glendart | traditional
• Fishers Hornpipe | traditional
• Flowers of Edinburgh | traditional
• Foxhunters Jig | traditional
• Galtee Mountain Boy | Patsy O'Halloran
• Galway Girl | Steve Earle & Sharon Shannon
• Girl I Left Behind | traditional
• Guinness Mouse | unknown
• Haste to the Wedding | traditional
• Haunted House | traditional
• Health to the Company | traditional
• I Know My Love | traditional
• I Know Who is Sick | traditional
• Inisheer | Thomas Walsh
• Irish Washerwoman | traditional
• Jock Stewart | traditional
• Joe Cooley's | unknown
• John Ryan Polka | traditional
• Julia Delaney's | traditional
• Kesh Jig | traditional
• Kid on the Mountain | traditional
• King of the Fairies | traditional
• Leaving of Liverpool | traditional
• Little Beggarman | traditional
• Loch Leven | traditional
• Maids of Mt. Kisco | traditional
• Maireads | traditional
• Master Crowley's | traditional
• Merrily Kiss the Quaker | traditional
• Morning Dew | traditional
• Morrison's Jig | traditional
• Mug of Brown Ale | traditional
• My Darling Asleep | traditional
• Off to California | traditional
• Paddy Taylor's | traditional
• Pipe on the Hob | traditional
• Rakes of Kildare | traditional
• Rakes of Mallow | traditional
• Red is the Rose | traditional
• Rights of Man | traditional
• Rocky Road to Dublin | traditional
• Rolling Hills of the Border | traditional
• Saddle the Pony | traditional
• Sally Gardens Reel | traditional
• Scotland the Brave | traditional
• Shady Grove | traditional
• Sheebeg Shemore | Turlough O'Carolan
• Silver Spear | traditional
• Smash the Windows | traditional
• Star of the County Down | traditional
• Strayaway Child | traditional
• Swallowtail Jig | traditional
• Tell Me Ma | traditional
• Temperance Reel | traditional
• The Ferryman | Pete St. John
• The Old Favorite | traditional
• The Scotsman | unknown
• Welcome Poor Paddy Home | traditional
• Whiskey Before Breakfast | traditional
• Whiskey in the Jar | traditional
• Wild Rover | traditional
• Pachelbel's Canon | Pachelbel
• Will learn new pieces for weddings