The fates were set against me seeing a band on my bucket list when they were in town last summer – Flogging Molly. First a semi-truck mistook my shiny red car for a Pokeball and drove over it and just before their set the heavens opened and a strong thunderstorm forced the Cabooze Plaza to cancel the concert and send everyone scrambling to save equipment. Flogging Molly played an impromptu acoustic set inside the Cabooze to diehard fans that had braved the elements a couple of hours later. Of course, the thanks they got was some angry people who had fled being upset that they missed that set. Tickets were refunded, Irish curses were muttered at the whatever gods were in charge of the weather that night, and life moved on.
Now Flogging Molly are back in the Twin Cities and this time they are not taking chances with the weather. They will be playing the Palace Theatre on 5/16. A few Tickets are still available HERE A digital download of Flogging Molly’s forthcoming album, Life Is Good, is included with every ticket ordered for this show.
Founded in Los Angeles in 1997, Flogging Molly has always defied categorization. The infectious originality of their songs is a badge of honor and key to the band’s creativity, their urgency. They infuse punk rock with Celtic instruments—violin, mandolin and the accordion—and they merge blues progressions with grinding guitars and traditional Irish music. “We’re not a traditional band,” explains Dublin-born frontman Dave King. “We are influenced by traditional music and inspired by it, but without question we put our own twist on it.” Theirs is music of exile, rebellion, struggle and history. The band’s only criteria for its music are simple and bone-deep: that it matter.
Tour Dates:
May 13 Fillmore Auditorium Denver, CO
May 14 Sokol Auditorium Omaha, NE
May 16 Palace Theatre St. Paul, MN
May 18 Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield, OH
May 19 Morgantown Amphitheatre Morgantown, WV
May 20 The Fillmore Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD
May 21 College Street Music Hall New Haven, CT
May 23 Irving Plaza New York, NY
May 24 Irving Plaza New York, NY
May 26 House of Blues Boston, MA
May 27 State Theatre Portland, ME
May 28 Metropolis Montréal, Canada
May 30 The Danforth Music Hall Toronto, Canada
Jun 01 20 Monroe Live Grand Rapids, MI
Jun 02 Aragon Ballroom Chicago, IL
Jun 03 The Fillmore Detroit Detroit, MI
