Randal Bays, Susan Waters and Clint Dye in Concert
Vashon Havurah
15401 Westside Hwy SW, Vashon 98070
Saturday February 28th at 7:30pm

The Masters of Irish music concert series will kick off the season with another group of remarkable Irish musicians from the Northwest. Local master fiddler and composer, Randal Bays will join forces with Susan Waters on fiddle and vocals and Clint Dye on guitar and vocals for what will surely be a special evening indeed. We are lucky to have such talent in the Northwest. The concert will be held at the Vashon Havurah.The Havurah is located at 15401 Westside Highway SW. Requested donation is $25 at the door. Please contact Jan Strolle at 206-228-0730 or janstrolle@comcast.net to make a reservation. The concert will be on February 28th is at 7:30 p.m. and there will be an Irish music session afterwards. Musicians and non-musicians are welcome at the session.

Randal Bays is an acclaimed American fiddler who’s been deep into Irish traditional music for many years and is well known on both sides of the Atlantic. He has a special love for the fiddle traditions of Counties Clare and Galway, where he’s spent many a night playing tunes with the masters of that intricate music. Randal has recorded and toured in the US, Ireland and Europe with such musicians as Martin Hayes, James Kelly, Daithí Sproule, James Keane, and many more. He's performed and taught Irish fiddle at most of the major North American festivals and in 2021 he received the Irish Artist in America Achievement Award from O’Flaherty Irish Music. Randal lives in the Seattle area and is the Artistic Director of Cascadia Irish Music Week.

Susan Waters is a native of Vermont, where she grew up in the midst of a musical family, immersed in the instrumental and song traditions of that part of the world. As a teen she traveled widely in Europe with various singing and dancing ensembles. She took up the fiddle in her 20s and soon developed a strong, rhythmic style perfectly suited to the fiddle music of western Ireland. Susan met Randal in the late 90s and they've been playing tunes together ever since, finding time along the way to get married and raise two sons, both fine musicians themselves.

Guitarist Clint Dye is a recent addition to the Seattle Irish music community. His great musicality, rhythm, and style have made him very welcome in sessions and concerts around the Northwest. Clint got his start playing traditional Irish music by accompanying step dancers and singers in the Busch Gardens show Celtic Fyre in Williamsburg, VA. During this time, he began to cut his teeth in Irish music sessions and worked in several groups at festivals and events on the east coast. Clint also plays with John Whelan in his new band Taisce Baile.