Potcheen

Artist Information

Biography

Listed in Denver Post underground music poll "Top 100 Bands in Colorado" 8 years running
* 2006-12 Westword Music Showcase. Best World music Band in Colorado"
* Awarded: "Best Way to Drink and Drive while Invoking the spirit of the Irish. "Best of Westword" 2006
* Winners of the 2006 South Park Music Fest " Immersive Studios VIP Award".
* Named "Best Encore" at the South Park Music Festival: Colorado Music Buzz.
* 2005 Runner Up: Coors New Sound Throwdown


They have performed with such acts as: Gaelic Storm, Los Lobos, Flogging Molly, Paula Cole, Michael Franti & Sprearhead, The Elders, Rusty Anderson (Paul McCartney), Black 47, The Prodigals, The Young Dubliners, The Bridies, Enter The Haggis, Scythian, The Glengharry Bhoys and Zilla (michael Travis from String Cheese Incident). Widespread Panic, William Topley, Ben Harper, Eileen Ivers & THe immigrant souls, Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Les Claypool, Perpetual Groove, Railroad Earth, Ozomatli, North Mississippi Allstars, New Monsoon, Yonder Mt. String band and so many more!!!!

Instrumentation

Christian Blochinger - Drums, Percussion & lead Vocals
Bobby Krech - mandolin, Fiddle
Joaquina Lluma - Bass Guitar
Joseph Barton - Lead Guitar

Discography

2005 "The Potcheen folk band"
2006 "Up She Rises"
2006 "Live at the soiled Dove"
2006 DVD " Live at the Bluebird Theater"
2007 "Bottom of the bottle battle"
2009 "Steel Blue Sea"
2011 "Live at Carbondale"
2012 " Take no Prisoners" (In Studio Now)

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Audio

• Magic Fiddle/Red haired boy
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• Devils dream
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• Drunken Sailor
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• Swallowtail jig
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• Devil went down to Georgia - Hardrain
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• Harvest Home
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Press

• Piracy at its Best! [+ Show ]
  

  Potcheen: a guaranteed fun time for one and all. The Potcheen Folk Band is a whole other breed of ba...Potcheen: a guaranteed fun time for one and all. The Potcheen Folk Band is a whole other breed of bands. They bring an intense stage presence to a room

• BEST WAY TO DRINK AND DRIVE WHILE INVOKING THE SPIRIT OF THE IRISH (2006) [+ Show ]
  

  Potcheen Folk Band's Booze Cruise Last fall, the Potcheen Folk Band shelled out for a 1983 MCI Crus...Potcheen Folk Band's Booze Cruise
  Last fall, the Potcheen Folk Band shelled out for a 1983 MCI Crusader 2 coach bus. Talk about a great investment -- not to mention a phenomenally brilliant marketing ploy. Several times a month, the magic bus -- outfitted with several video monitors, plentiful seating and a fully stocked cooler full of brews -- makes stops at numerous pre-determined locales across the Front Range like a gambling charter. The booze cruise then shuttles fans to whatever venue the Irish-centric act happens to be playing that night for several hours of drunken whiskey songs, rebel songs and general pirate debauchery, then deposits them back at their cars with (hopefully) plenty of time to sober up.

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  Potcheen turned out to be awesome. With a sound akin to Flogging Molly and the Dropkick Murphys, tha...Potcheen turned out to be awesome. With a sound akin to Flogging Molly and the Dropkick Murphys, thanks mainly to Shelby's gravely, garbled vocal style, Potcheen transformed that quaint little mountain tavern into a rollicking Irish pub. Even more noteworthy was MacGregor's exceptional fiddle playing, which danced atop traditional arrangements with the ease and grace of Michael Flatley. Named after Irish moonshine, the band pounded out song after song about drinking. And the more it played, the rowdier and drunkier everyone got.Potcheen continued its barrage for two more neck-breaking sets, tearing through at least thirty songs over the course of the night. It was a great scene, with folks locking arms and Riverdancing in front of the stage.

Setlist

Can play up to 4 hours of music.

over 100 Traditional Irish & Scottish drinking and rebel Songs, Bluegrass, Rock-a-billy, Cajun, blues, Jam, Rock and Punk:

40+ Covers songs. Derek Warfield, . Flogging Molly, Gaelic Storm, Great Big Sea, The Pogues, Charlie Daniels Band, Grateful Dead, Beatles, The Proclaimers, Dropkick Murphys, Johnny Cash & More

25 Originals. ex: Pog Mo THoin, Steel Blue Sea, Me Father Was a Sailor, Grace O'Malley, Rocks of Dun-an-oir, Off to the alehouse, Molly Anne, A pirates Lament, Craic House

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