Doors at 6pm, music at 7pm. Dinner menu available (not included in ticket price)
$15 Advance / $20 Door https://bit.ly/KennedysKitchenUB
Kennedy's Kitchen is a talented sextet, that has been making Irish music together since 1998, averaging about 80 shows per year playing everything from backyard parties and weddings to pubs, concert halls, and national festivals. From their home in South Bend, Indiana, they have traveled as far as New York and Naples, Florida, recording five CDs along the way (they are working on their sixth).
The band is led by joHn Kennedy, award winning singer and guitar player. It's Kitchen Music from the home, the hearth, and the heart. Joining in is joHn's nephew Liam Ladewski, then Theresa Kubiak, Chris O'Brien, Rob Weber, and Jacob Turner.
Liam, Theresa, and Jacob are award winners themselves having competed in the All-Ireland Fleadh on their respective instruments. They play fiddle, flutes, whistles, mandolin, bouzouki, guitar, tenor banjo, harmonica, bodhran, and bass. They love to sing.
Over the years, They have performed at numerous festivals and music halls.
Among them have been the Michigan Irish Music Festival, Great American Irish Festival, LaCrosse Irish Festival, Chicago's Irish American Heritage Center Irish Fest, Milwaukee Irish Fest,The Acorn Theater in Three Oaks Michigan.The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center - University of Notre Dame,Warren Cultural Center in Greenfield, Iowa, The Schauer Arts and Activities Center in Hartford, Wisconsin, The Riveria Theater in Three Rivers, Michigan,Muskifest in Bethlehem, PA,
Norris Community Center in Naples, Florida, The Majestic Theater in Gettysburgh, PA, and the Kranert Center for the Arts at The University of Illinois.
Perhaps their their show is best described with these words from Tom Schaub, the entertainment director for the Muskegon Irish Festival. He said: “To hear Kennedy’s Kitchen is to experience the heart of music, the culture of the songs being handed from musician to musician, the beauty of melody untouched by gimmick and the magic of this group of musicians coming together with one aim - to leave you, and them, breathless. Then, on the the next song, they’ll have you partying and dancing as never before. One of America’s best!”