The Kerry Boys 3/8/20 Thornton Wilder Hall Hamden

It is rare that I am junior by 20 years at a musical event, but the Kerry Boys at 3pm on a pre-St Patty Sunday, at the library no less, brought out the oldsters. The KBs have been spinning their yarns for 30 years. Two guitars/vocals, banjo, and electric bass is their lineup. Lead singer and frontman has the Irish brogue and corny inter song banter that moves the set along. The other guitarist and sometimes mandolin player is Pierce Campbell, a local folkie who I've seen often back in the day as an opening act. The band engages the crowd with various sing-along and clap-along segments. Most tunes are traditional, with the exception of Galway Girl ( thanks Steve Earle). I realize that Danny Boy, the lynchpin of any Irish set, is the most impossible song. With high notes, swooping falsetto, the bloke that wrote it must be chuckling in heaven as he looks down on a planet of Irishmen, true and faux drunkenly yodeling their way the verse.