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Music for the Church
of the Wailing Banshees

LIVE CONCERT

Friday, March 20, 2026 – 7:30 PM

Is nothing sacred!

Chris Crilly’s Music for the Church of the Wailing Banshees is not your father’s pub Irish. This jaunt “between the jigs and the reels” is tinted by Chris’s background not only in Celtic music, but by his childhood exposure to the music of West Africa and what we used to refer to as the “Middle East”.

There are jazz and baroque influences and vestigial earworms from his childhood in the English choral tradition. This concert will have the audience humming the tunes all the way home.

For this Hudson Village Theatre concert, Chris is delighted to be in the company of: Greg Smith (guitar), Bill Gossage (bass) and Stuart Jackson (Uilleann pipes and percussion).

Tickets: $28.00 (+ tax & service fee)

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Chris Crilly

Chris Crilly, a native of Co. Down, Ireland was a founder member of BARDE. His music is influenced by many styles from Celtic to baroque, classical to Ghanaian Highlife. Chris toured and recorded with the Canadian Celtic group BARDE, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, St. Lawrence Choir, Stan Rogers, Teresa Doyle amongst others.

He recently released an album of original and traditional Celtic music: Music for the Church of the Wailing Banshees. His score for the widely acclaimed 2001 film, Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner, won the Genie for best achievement in music. Chris lives in Havelock, Québec.

Bill Gossage

Bill Gossage was born and raised in Montréal. He is a talented multi-instrumentalist, best known for playing the upright bass. Currently recording and performing across Canada with LaNef Sea Shanties featuring Sean Dagher.

He has also toured with Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Susie Arioli, Jordan Officer, Ray Bonneville, Connie Kaldor, and for many years with his talented brothers Dave and Thom Gossage. Bill has played on numerous recordings including Sarah McLachlan's Shine On.

Greg Smith

Greg Smith is a Montreal-based sound and visual artist, a guitar player and live sound designer, having toured extensively with artists such as Québec rap group Loco Locass and Ukrainian experimental folk group Dazoque. He worked for many years with multi-disciplinary artist Li Alin.

Greg is also an award-winning audio engineer and stop-motion filmmaker and was the recording and mixing engineer on Chris’s recent album: Music for the Church of the Wailing Banshees.

Stuart Jackson

Stuart Jackson is a percussionist and uilleann piper from Virginia. An active performer of traditional and contemporary music, he devotes himself to an in-depth engagement with musical works primarily from the 20th century: the graphic scores of John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and others.

As a traditional Celtic musician, he has also studied the traditional music of pipers including Seamus Ennis, Tommy Reck and Leo Rowsome and has taught at the Irish Arts Centre in New York. Stuart lives in Montreal.

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Tickets can also be purchased by contacting the box office directly:
450 458 5361 or hvtbox@villagetheatre.ca.