Ceol Cridhe

Imagine yourself in a neighborhood pub in Ireland or Scotland. In a room full of friends and casual acquaintances, a local band is livening up the evening with a set of folk songs, reels, jigs and airs on fiddle, guitar, harp, piano and voice. Including old favorites, the band is also interspersing modern songs that conform with the ancient traditions of the Celtic lands.

This describes the scene that Ceol Cridhe (pronounced Ke-ol Cree), a Frankfort-based trio, creates when they perform. Presenting a mélange of traditional music from the Celtic lands of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, and more modern selections "in the folk tradition," Ceol Cridhe brings Celtic music into the twenty-first century. Ceol Cridhe consists of Jack Twombly on the guitar, bouzouki, and lead vocals; Bob Cox playing fiddle, bodhran, and backup vocals; and Bryn Bowen Cox on electroharp, keyboard, concertina, and backup vocals.