By SALINA POST
Ireland with Michael LIVE is coming to Salina in April.
The multimedia event combines the music, dance, and stories of Ireland and features leading Irish tenor Michael Londra.
Tickets start at $35 and go on sale at noon on Friday. Buy online at stiefeltheatre.org or by calling the Stiefel at 785-827-1998. Additionally, the Stiefel box office is open for phone or walk-up sales from noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
About the concert from the Stiefel Theatre
Following the overwhelming success of Seasons No. 1 and No. 2 of the Ireland With Michael travel and music series on PBS in 2021 and 2022 (over 78% reach of all U.S Households), the LIVE theatrical show based on the PBS program will tour U.S cities in 2023. Season No. 3 of the PBS show will air on stations from January 2023.
Emmy® award-nominated singer and the voice of Riverdance on Broadway, Londra interlaces songs and stories of Ireland to a backdrop of spectacular footage filmed for his PBS travel series in his new show Ireland With Michael LIVE. In doing so, he creates an immersive journey around the Emerald Isle for his audience. Irish dancers, fiddles and pipes add to the feast of Celtic talent onstage, drawing the audience across the Atlantic Ocean to Ireland.
Ireland With Michael – LIVE is a celebration of Irish culture and music. Londra shares his own connection to songs and stories of his home county, his love of traditional music backed by his immensely talented band and world-champion Irish dancers.
The stunning set for Ireland With Michael LIVE adds a multimedia dimension to the show. Conceptualized and designed by an award-winning Broadway lighting and projection designer, the backdrop incorporates drone footage and excerpts from Londra’s PBS travel show of the same name. In both the television show and in Ireland With Michael LIVE, Londra tells the story of Ireland the only way he knows how - through music.
About the artist from the Stiefel Theatre
Londra is an Emmy®-nominated, internationally acclaimed Irish singer, producer, and TV host from the opera capital of Ireland, a small town on the southeast coast called Wexford. His big break came when he was cast as the lead tenor in Riverdance on Broadway and subsequently on the U.S. National tour of the same show, which he toured for two years. Londra’s first solo album Celt was produced by acclaimed producer, Steve Skinner, who co-produced the Grammy-nominated soundtrack of RENT. In 2011, Londra produced a concert special for PBS called Beyond Celtic, which he co-produced with Mindfox Productions. The special aired on stations across the United States in 2011 and earned him two Emmy® nominations. In 2013, Londra became a mentor for Grammy® University teaching music business students from Vanderbilt and Belmont Universities in Nashville.
Londra has been a featured guest singer with Irish supergroups De Dannan and Téada. In 2013, he performed with Judy Collins for the Kennedy family at the JFK 50 celebrations to honor President John F. Kennedy’s trip to Ireland in 1963. His version of Danny Boy is described as “one of the best recordings of the piece in history” and has been viewed 11 million times on YouTube.
To learn more about Londra or his tours of Ireland go to IrelandwithMichael.com.