The ShamRocks

Hungry Monk Music has been offering a twice monthly Monday night Celtic class for the past yeasr or so. This class has organized itself into a group we now call The ShamRocks. Right now the group consists of two fiddlers, Rebecca Culver and Claudia Jos, a guitarist, Jonathan Graham, a bohdran player and percussionist, Kelly Measom, and a harpist/mandolinist, Abby Kent. These students have been working really hard and have put together a set of music that includes jigs, reels, an O’Carolan tune, some Renaissance music, and more. They have played at a Hungry Monk Coffee House but their big debut was at the Edgar Allan Poe Library on Sullivan’s Island this past April. The group played really well. So well, in fact, that they received an offer to perform at the Governer’s Mansion in Columbia for a group of international students. Unfortunately, that performance was a mere 2 weeks later and the logistics could not be arranged. There will be more offers in the future and The ShamRocks are busy building their repertoire.