Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Carnival of Souls
- Editor
- Mar 1
- 2 min read
On St. Patrick’s Day weekend, let the magic of Irish reels and Celtic jigs sweep you away! Join Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Carnival of Souls on Saturday, March 14th at 7:30 PM in Lincoln Hall — an evening alive with stirring vocals and joyous melodies that will have your heart dancing.
Feel the rhythm, share the laughter, and start your festivities surrounded by the spirit of Ireland. Seats are filling fast—don’t miss your chance to be part of this unforgettable celebration! Leprechaun magic will abound with the call of the Highland bagpipes and all those lucky enough to be Irish – and those hopefuls who wish they were Irish – will tap their toes and kick up their heels!
Back by popular demand for the 2026 St. Patrick’s Day weekend celebration, the Lowry family CARNIVAL OF SOULS led by Brian and Kelly Lowry with Roy Abbott, Daryl Hartman, Jonathan Shegog and Caitlin Lowry Shegog is the finest Celtic band in western Pennsylvania. Reserve your spot today and let the band carry you home with their performances on highland bagpipes, bodhrán, guitar, flute, tin whistle, accordion, and keyboards PLUS hauntingly beautiful ballads and joyous Irish story-telling vocals
Sure to bring a tear to the eye will be the moving and powerful performance of Highland Cathedral with Jonathan Shegog playing bagpipes and Brian Lowry the recently restored McKissick Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ.
THIS CONCERT WILL SELL OUT. Let’s go Green! See you the on the 14th!
Tickets: $20 Adults, Students & Children under 6 Free.
Buy online at alleghenyriverstone.org or reserve by calling 724-659-3153 and pay with cash or check at the door. Walk-ins welcome!
Listen to their music from their CD No Scone Unburned – Forty-two Pound Checque/Wind that shakes the Barley on their website, Carnival of Souls.
More samples of No Scone Unburned and their second CD, SconeHenge, is available through their website and on CD Baby. CDs will be available for sale at the concert.
CARNIVAL OF SOULS has been performing traditional and original Celtic music in Western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia for over twenty years. The group uses a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional instruments to produce a rich range of music that would be at home in a pub in Dublin or a coffee shop in Shadyside.
Dirty Linen
“… it’s when the band gets creative that their sound gets most interesting. There are dreamy arrangements of “Lagan Love” and “She Moves Through the Fair” with echoing keyboards and rainsticks, a version of “Bogie’s Bonnie Bell” with a rythmic variation that turns it into a sad calypso, and a rocking hammered dulcimer reel set.
The Pittsburgh Tribune/Review
“…Arrangements are tight, and the songs bristle with tin-whistles, accordion and galloping bodhran, an Irish drum played by vocalist Bob Hartman. The band proves equally adept at pint glass-rattling rave-ups such as “Allistrum’s March” and the lush, languid American Indian ballad “Shenandoah.”
Erin go bragh!!
