'Round The House - Irish Traditional Music & Song

Round The House - Irish Traditional Music and Song

Photo: Jorga Riggenbach

A dynamic band with great musicianship and energy brings authentic Irish music, with a twist of Tucson, to concert, contradance, and festival stages. Their traditional songs and dance tunes (jigs and reels, hornpipes, etc) flow from driving to tender and back again. Fiddle, mandolin, guitar, bouzouki and bodhran lift the tunes, and surround and support the clean and lively vocals. Known for creating great rapport with audiences, they have a enthusiastic following that is growing every year.

Based in Tucson Arizona, Round the House has also played in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas and California in recent years.

Round the House is:
Sharon Goldwasser – fiddle
Dave Firestine – mandolin, bouzouki, banjo
Mark Robertson-Tessi – guitar, bouzouki, mandolin
Claire Zucker – vocals, bodhran

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ALERT - PA / NJ Tour Coming Up!
Round the House playing 11 dates in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in June
Here the dates:
June 13, Pittsburgh, PA - Contradance at the Swisshelm Park Community Center, 8 pm
June 14, Pittsburgh, PA - Claddagh Irish Pub, 8:30 pm
June 15, Pittsburgh, PA - Workshop and House Concert, TBA
June 16, Harrisburg, PA - Concert at the Unitarian Church of Harrisburg, 7:30 pm
June 17, Princeton, NJ - Concert at Looking Glass Pond, 8 pm
June 18, Princeton, NJ - Contradance at the Suzanne Patterson Center, 8 pm
June 19, York, PA - Concert at the Box Lunch Revue, Cherry Lane Court, 11:30 am
June 19, Glenside, PA - Contradance at the Glenside Memorial Hall, 8 pm
June 20, Harrisburg, PA - O'Reilly's Pub, 8pm
June 21, Glen Rock, PA - Penn-Mar Irish Festival, 10:45 am
June 21, West Chester, PA - Four Dogs Tavern, 8 pm
Visit our calendar page for more information on venue locations

First place Traditional/Ethnic music
Tucson Area Music Awards (TAMMIES)
Sixth year in a row!!
2002 - 2007!

'Til the Wee Hours (CD) voted the Best New Release in 2004

Quotes from Published Sources

Lively fiddle-driven tune sets… Natural unforced soprano... Commendable...
--- Dirty Linen

A great band, presenting traditional Celtic tunes and songs with grace, skill, imagination and a lively heart
--- Arizona Irish News

A stellar job at focusing on instruments and showing them off, sounds rising, then falling as another takes the center stage. A lot of variety as well as great musicianship and energy. Lovely.
--- Celtic MP3 Magazine

The style in which they perform brings a fresh air to the stage or stereo
--- Ceili magazine, Southwest Celtic Music Association, Dallas Texas

The instrumentals are crisp and lively... Claire's voice has a lilting authentic quality...
---Black Rose Acoustic Music Society, Colorado Springs, CO

Open arrangements, superb playing, and great choices of material.
--- Tinsmith

Versatile and sprightly... Exquisite soprano with a gift for chiseled ornaments...
--- Tucson Citizen

Marvelous quartet... Precise picking and fancy fiddle flourishes... It never fails to force a smile...
--- Philadelphia Folksong Society

Thoughtful and incisive approach demonstrates a deep love for the music... Treatment of songs brings out new highlights and undertones...
--- Pay the Reckoning

Studied and precisely authentic... The playing and singing are no less than astonishing...
--- Tucson Weekly

Booking Highlights

Regular local venues: Auld Dubliner Irish Pub, Javalinas Coffee and Friends, Janos, Greenfire Concert Series, Tucson Friends of Traditional Music Contradances
North Texas Irish Festival, Dallas Texas (2005, 2007)
Black Rose Acoustic Society, Colorado Springs, Colorado (2007)
California Traditional Music Society Summer Solstice Festival, Calabasas California (2005, 2006)
Tucson Friends of Traditional Music "Dance in the Desert" contra dance camp (annually since 1999)
Durango Meltdown Festival, Durango, Colorado (2005)
Albuquerque Biopark concert series, Albuquerque, New Mexico (2004)
Numerous Irish / Celtic / Folk Festivals throughout Arizona
Five full length collaborative performances featuring dancing by the Bracken School of Irish Dance and the Maguire Academy of Irish Dance (since 2002).

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