RØDE House Happy Hour | Irish Ceili and Seth Dancing with Ozark Folkways, The Bayard Trio, and Steve Green
Looking for the best way to spend your evening? Join us every Wednesday in the RØDE House for Happy Hour with drink specials and free live music from local artists.
In celebration of Irish History month, Ozark Folkways presents the Bayard Trio and Steve Green for an evening of traditional Irish music and dancing. Join us to enjoy some jigs and learn Irish Ceili and Seth dancing. All skill levels are welcome and partners are not required.
Free, no tickets required.
Ages 21+ only. Please present a valid ID upon entry.
This event is part of our RØDE House Happy Hour series.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ozark Folkways
Ozark Folkways is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, development, instruction, and celebration of Ozark arts and crafts. Founded in 1969, today Ozark Folkways continues to serve Ozark craftspeople by offering opportunities for folk transmission, formal learning, and access to shared resources at both Winslow and Fayetteville locations. Programming includes a variety of craft workshops, guided foraging, concerts featuring local musicians, jam sessions, traditional social dances, kids’ camps, cooking classes, fiber art and pottery makerspaces, a gallery featuring local artists, an annual Fiber Fest, and other celebrations of regional arts and crafts.
The Bayard Trio
The Bayard Trio consists of Bayard Blain, Don Killcullen, and Coral Bradshaw. Playing mandolin, guitar, bouzouki, and vocals, Bayard Blain is a local musician, esteemed luthier, and a former member of Fayetteville’s 3 Penny Acre and Wildwood. Playing fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and vocals, Don Killcullen met Bayard over a love of Irish music after moving to the Ozarks from California. Playing fiddle, guitar, and piano, Coral Bradshaw has been making a name in the local scene with a variety of bands and songwriters. Her violin harmonies and third parts set this group apart.
Steve Green
Steve Green grew up on a hill country farm in the Arkansas Ozarks in the 1950’s, a region well known for traditional music and dance. He has earliest memories of old time American square dances alongside German Polkas and Schottisches in his grandfather’s front room. Ozark style jig dancing was the start of a lifelong interest in percussive dance. As a percussive dancer, he teaches flatfoot and buck dance, but delights in combining traditional styles in a fusion that creates a sound welcome in jams and compelling on stage.
He has won firsts at the National Buck Dancing Championship in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and the flatfooting competitions at the Appalachian String Band Music Festival at Clifftop, WV, and the Augusta Heritage Festival in Elkins, WV. He has been chosen to teach Ozark Mountain Square dance at the John C. Campbell Folk School Winter Dance Week, 2025, in Brasstown, NC, the oldest, largest, and most prestigious folk school for the music and dance arts in the US.