Kells St. Patrick's Irish Festival

Celebrating 41 Years of Irish Tradition!

Schedule of Events:
21+ w/ ID after 9 PM

Kells opens at 11:30 AM

Music begins at 6 PM
Music by Buck Mad Boys, Mairtin O hUigin, Oliver Mulholland & David Garbers

The Buckmad Bhoys are Cormac Duffin and Declan Keenan from Co. Antrim in N. Ireland and have been playing together for four years.  A Buckmad Bhoys show takes the audience over the edge with their own personal twist on Irish traditional music fusing it with rock, jazz, blues and punk. They released their first album Darkness & Light in 2016 it is available on iTunes as well as many other download sites or can be bought at their shows as a hard copy.  Check them out on Facebook and Instagram. This is a band you won’t want to miss so get yourself down to Kells Irish Pub, Seattle during St Patrick’s week and let the Buckmad Bhoys help you party hard.  

Born in Belfast, Mairtin O hUigin is the youngest son of three. His mother is from Ballymena and his father from Glenravel in County Antrim, where he has lived most of his life. Years ago Mairtin joined a band from South Derry called Celtic Rogue where he was joint lead vocalist. He has spent many very happy years traveling all over Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the US. These days, most of his gigs are local and you can usually catch him at the Central Bar in Cushendall.  Mairtin, born in Belfast the youngest son of three. His mother from Ballymeana and his father from Glenravel in County Antrim,where he has lived most his life. Years ago Mairtin joined the band Celtic Rogue from South Derry where he was the lead vocalist. He has spent many happy years traveling and singing all over Ireland as well as Europe, Australia and the US. He has played and sang with many  Irish singers including The Wolfe Tones, The Dublin City Ramblers and more recently Damien Dempsey.. Always an entertainer and crowd pleaser..

Garbers is a solo acoustic live-looping artist from Botswana that uses a guitar and a shaker to live-record beats and rhythms, building creative songs that are full sounding, and entertaining. In 2003, David Garbers began pursuing his musical journey writing songs as a way to journal his life and make something that would outlast him. He found that playing music with friends was a bond that felt a bit deeper. Starting the childhood band USED2Bsyris, the 3 piece rock unit took Garbers north to England where he had a chance encounter with Paul McCartney in 2007, and in retreat for a more stable way of life he studied Audio Engineering in 2008. He has since toured internationally as a professional sound engineer, played in 7 different bands (most notably 4 piece alternative rock act South of Nine) gaining radio play in South Africa with songs 'Circles' and 'Jozi'. He has performed on stages alongside musical icons in multiple countries and over the years Garbers has not only performed his own music in front of thousands of people, but he won a lottery, relocating him from Johannesburg to Denver, CO in late 2019. Now residing in Seattle, WA and armed with his fourth and latest single, ‘Existence’, Garbers hopes to share his story and inspire others to follow their dreams too.

Entry is Free