It just wouldn’t be St. Patrick’s Day without honoring the great tradition and the mighty joy of being Irish. With rip-roaring music, song, and dance, Harris Center for the Arts presents An Irish Hooley with Slugger O'Toole in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. The 6 musicians of Slugger O’Toole, one of the best loved Irish bands, make a welcome return to the Harris Center, Folsom for a great Irish celebration of St. Patrick’s Day! The group shares its passion for the music of Ireland and the Celtic Nations by concocting a heady brew of foot-stomping pub songs, heart-rending ballads and deft instrumentals. With traditional instrumentation including fiddle, button accordion, mandolin, banjo, bodhrán, pennywhistle, flute and guitars, the band thrills audiences with its brilliant close-harmony a Capella renditions of the Irish classics that are true to the Celtic core. “Seeing these guys live makes me feel like I’m at a pub in the west of Ireland.....I’ll take a Guinness please!” (Conejo News Press). Tickets are available online at www.harriscenter.net or from the Harris Center Ticket Office at 916-608-6888 from 10 am to 6 pm Monday through Saturday, and two hours before show time. Parking is included in the price of the ticket. Harris Center is located on the west side of Folsom Lake College campus in Folsom, CA, facing East Bidwell Street. Founded in 2006 by longtime friends Matt Foyer, Dan Harper and John McKenna, the Irish-American band Slugger O'Toole ‘made their bones’ playing the pubs of Southern California. Leaving their mark on legendary haunts like The Auld Dubliner, O'Brien's, Joxer Daly's, the Tam O'Shanter and the world-famous Molly Malone's, the band also played plenty of Irish wakes, wild weddings and private hoolies along the way (including a couple of particularly raucous affairs for Mel Gibson!). Following the release of their 2008 debut CD Hammer and Tongs and a knock-out performance at LA's 1,200-seat Ford Amphitheater, Slugger O'Toole burst onto the Festival circuit. They played the terrific crowds at the LA County Irish Fair & Festival, the Great American Irish Fair in Irvine, the Bakersfield Celtic Music Festival, the Kern County Scottish Games & Gathering and the Big Squeeze Accordion Festival. In 2013 the band documented one such performance on their independently released CD, Slugger O'Toole Live at Folsom."