Brock McGuire Band to Perform
February 26, 2015
UT Tyler Office of Marketing and Communications
UT Tyler to Present the Brock McGuire Band in Concert March 4
February 26, 2015
Media Contact: Hannah Buchanan
Editor/Writer–Strategic Communications & Media Relations
Marketing and Communications
The University of Texas at Tyler
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February 25, 2015
The University of Texas at Tyler will present the award-winning Brock McGuire Band on Wednesday, March 4, Dr. Paul Streufert, UT Tyler executive director of special academic programs, announced.
The public performance begins at 6 p.m. in the UT Tyler University Center theater.
“We are excited to bring a group of such caliber to our campus,” Streufert said.
Event co-sponsors are the UT Tyler Honors and Global Awareness Through Education programs and School of Performing Arts.
Passion and precision, authenticity and diversity: these are the hallmarks of the Brock McGuire Band in concert. They are steeped in tradition and perform it with abiding respect and creativity. The band’s repertoire runs wide and deep; their tight, tenacious blend of instruments emphasizing mostly Irish music but also sprinkling in impressive arrangements of American Old Timey, Bluegrass, French-Canadian and other Celtic traditions.
American music critic Bill Margeson has hailed their new CD collaboration, “Green Grass Blue Grass” with 14–time Grammy Award® Winner Ricky Skaggs, as ‘A Masterpiece.’
Fronted by Moving Cloud founding members Paul Brock and Manus McGuire, the group received the “Irish Instrumental Band of the Decade” Award from the Irish American News.
Appearances by the Brock McGuire Band include the Grand Ole Opry, Irish Fest, Chicago Cultural Center and the North Texas Irish Festival, among others.
For more information, contact Streufert, 903.565.5823 or pstreufert@uttyler.edu.
One of the 15 campuses of the UT System, UT Tyler features excellence in teaching, research, artistic performance and community service. More than 80 undergraduate and graduate degrees are available at UT Tyler, which has an enrollment of more than 8,000 high-ability students. UT Tyler offers courses at its campuses in Tyler, Longview and Palestine as well as a location in Houston.