MacTalla Mor Irish Pipes Band to Play at Newtown Arts Festival

From Newtown Cultural Arts Commission--

Exciting News - MacTalla Mor will be performing at the Newtown Arts Festival on Saturday September 13th at 4pm!!!

Music fans will get a hearty taste of bagpipes when Celtic Radio Award winner MacTalla Mor takes Newtown by storm. The New York Times calls MacTalla Mor “Celtic Music for the Masses”.

MacTalla Mor features champion great highland bagpipe and Gaelic melodies, in a high energy mix of traditional Celtic, rock, blues, jazz, reggae, Latin, hip-hop and Mor. The band, which is made up of members of the Ofgang family has performed at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, in historic Windsor Station Montreal, Canada and Central Park New York. They’ve played for ESPN, CBS, NBC, and ABC TV. Fans of the group range from age 1 to 100 and include legendary musicians Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones and Jose Feliciano.

MacTalla Mor’s haunting rendition of The Mist Covered Mountains was named Celtic Radio Song of the year in the roots traditional category. This year the band kicked off its east coast U.S. tour in April with a special performance for Alex Fergusson the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament at British Memorial Gardens in New York City.

The band formed over 10 years ago when members of the Ofgang family decided to combine their musical talents into one never-before-heard style. Brothers Jesse and Levon Ofgang play bagpipes, uilleann pipes, drums and guitar, their mother Patty Ofgang, plays the Bodhran, (a traditional Celtic hand drum), their brother Erik Ofgang plays the bass and is a professional magician who does magic during the shows. Potential fans need look no further than the band’s slogan, “The Pipes Are Calling Resistance is Futile.”

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Photo: MacTalla Mor