Stage show produced by The Dubliners' John Sheahan celebrating 50 years of songs, stories and craic from the Irish folk band.
The Dubliners Encore comes to the Perth Concert Hall on Friday 12 November 2027, a stage show produced by John Sheahan, one of the original members of The Dubliners. It's a celebration of the band's history, and Sheahan describes it as packing 50 years of songs, stories and craic into one night.
To get where they ended up, it helps to know where they started. The Dubliners began in O'Donoghue's pub in Dublin in 1962 as the Ronnie Drew Folk Group, fronted by Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna and Ciarán Bourke. Their breakthrough came in 1967 when Seven Drunken Nights was picked up by a pirate radio station and played alongside the Beatles, the Who and Jimi Hendrix, propelling them to gold discs and global fame. Decades of line-up changes followed, and their 1987 collaboration with the Pogues on The Irish Rover won them a new, younger audience. They paved the way for countless Irish and Scottish acts, from the Chieftains and the Pogues to U2 and the Fureys.
By the time this show comes around, the original members are all gone: Ronnie Drew died in 2008, Luke Kelly in 1984, Ciarán Bourke in 1988 and Barney McKenna in 2009. John Sheahan, a renowned fiddle player and Irish icon, is the one producing the show, and he's the one who describes it as 50 years of songs, stories and craic in a single evening. It's a look back at the band's long run, from the early pub days to the gold discs and the later collaborations.
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The show is at the Gannochy Trust Auditorium in the Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, Perth, PH1 5HZ. It starts at 19:30 and runs for about 150 minutes, so you're looking at two and a half hours of music and stories. Tickets are £29.50 to £38.50, which includes a £2.50 booking fee per ticket.
