Join local Celtic band Émigré for songs and tunes to celebrate May Day and Bealtaine!

Bealtaine is an ancient Irish fire festival—a time of communal celebration focused on protective rituals for coming journeys and transitions. In modern times, this holiday has come to overlap with International Workers Day, also known as May Day. At this show, Émigré will play a big ol' set of Irish, Scottish and English folk songs and tunes, while highlighting rebel history through some of its songs, and leading a sing-a-long or two! Come watch and listen, or take the opportunity to enjoy the music while perusing Firestorm.

Émigré began in the fall of 2016 in Johnson City, Tennessee, when Austin Gregory (guitar, bouzouki) and Saro Lynch-Thomason (vocals, shruti box) began to combine their diverse musical talents and experiences with their love for the traditional music of Ireland and Scotland. In 2023 the band welcomed Megan Drollinger as fiddler. Today Émigré performs a variety of music tracing the diaspora of the Irish and Scots across the ocean to North America. The band’s name comes from the dispersal of people, ideas, and music that resulted from centuries of emigration from Ireland and Scotland and the unique music that has resulted as these were combined with others from a world away. Learn more at facebook.com/emigreband