Hailing from the historic Gold Rush Country of America, the five member Black Irish Band of twenty years, have a musical style that is as timeless as the rugged landscape of the west, a tribute to the people whose lives were spent building the world we now take for granted. The band has a large compliment of traditional maritime and railroad music, as well as ethnic tunes in their repertoire. They excel at Irish & Scottish, Italian, and American folk music with an assortment of original songs and traditional western ballads. The bands musical style captures he spirit of the immigrants of this land, the men and women who tamed the Wild West. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.