As the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, Entertainer of the Year at the East Coast Music Awards, and Juno Award winner for Best Roots/Traditional Artists - The Irish Descendants - will begin celebrating 20 years plying their musical trade. Having graced the stage at festivals and concert halls all over the world, including headlining Newfoundland’s 500^th Anniversary Celebration, The Irish Descendants will be representing the province, along with Great Big Sea, by entertaining at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games! Few bands last from one decade to the next, even fewer continue to make great music, and none continue to attract new fans the way The Irish Descendants do....

The Irish Descendants - 20 Years and Counting ... fresh on the heels of releasing their 13^th studio album "Encore: The Best of The Irish Descendants Vol. 2" are heading out on a seven-city tour which includes Sarnia, Port Hope, Huntsville, Lindsay, Brockville, Kingston, and culminating in Ottawa on St Patrick’s Day. What better way to spend the "week of the Irish" than with Newfoundland’s undisputed Kings of Celtic? "The Descendants had the first ten rows on their feet with the opening strums of their instruments" - Ottawa Citizen; "The Irish Descendants have the Atlantic lapping off the stage, the salt sting in the theatre air..." - Toronto Star. A live show that boasts familiar tunes and thunderous harmonies, coupled with a down-to-earth sense of humour, The Irish Descendants will tug at the hearts of both expat and wannabe Newfoundlanders everywhere.

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Robin McRae, Shantero Productions Inc., phone 613-346-2622; fax 613-346-2015; robin@shantero.commailto:terry@shantero.com