Traditional Irish Musical Pub Crawl

The experience was fun. My complaint is that the title of the activity is somewhat deceiving. It is labeled as a pub crawl. Well we did travel as a group to 2 pubs…but the musicians traveled with us and the experience was the same. If 2 different sets of musicians were experienced I would give it a much higher rating.

I could see that the rest of the room was really enjoying the banter between Booster and Niall, but I was feeling under the weather and found it too manic and disjointed really. There were lots of anecdotes nested inside other anecdotes meaning that it took ages to get to the actual music, but if you're in the mood (and can follow the quick-fire irish accents), I think you'd find it fun. NB it's a big group and you only go to two pubs, 10-15 mins walk apart, so less of a 'crawl' than you might expect.

I was looking g forward to this tur and it didn't disappoint. We visited 3 pubs outside of the Temple Bar area to hear jigs and reels played on Irish pipes, flutes, tin whistles, fiddles, concertinas, accordions, guitars and banjos. The pubs were crowded but we made it into all three.

The Irish Musical Pub Crawl was one of the true highlights of our trip to Dublin. The music was fabulous - but we also learned some history, which was interesting and entertaining. Our very favorite part was the sense of community created by the two performers with all the audience members, including asking about where people were from, identifying various Irish heritage names, and providing opportunities for performing (singing, dancing, playing the piano). The entire experience was just delightful - as my husband noted, it made us feel better about humanity.

Brenda and Owen were great musicians who were entertaining and talented. We enjoyed the sing-a-longs and learned a bit about Irish music. So much fun!