The Dubliner Pub

Irish Diplomacy
2026-04-01 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Genre bending trad music. An eclectic Irish-American band with members from varied facets of the rich Twin Cities music scene. Members include Datta Hartman (accordion and vocals), Bill Lee (harmonica, whistles, bagpipes), Ric Lee (fiddle and mandolin), Shawn McBurnie (vocals and bodhrán), John Goolsby (upright bass), Sherry Taplin (clogging and autoharp), Michael Ries (guitar and vocals), and Sunil Bawa (percussion).
Irish Diplomacy shines when playing original material you’d swear came from the tradition, pulling Appalachian and Irish roots together, or adding a twist to an old chestnut.

Dan Israel & Mikkel perform the Nebraska album
2026-04-02 17:00 - 19:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Dan Israel and percussionist extraordinaire Mikkel Beckmen perform Bruce Springsteen’s classic album “Nebraska” in its entirety. Hope you can join us.

Test Site 67
2026-04-02 20:00 - 23:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Scottie Devlin’s Test Site 67 is a local super group! These guys will make you laugh, dance and listen. Wide range of covers songs and their own. Never a dull moment.

Irish Music Session
2026-04-03 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-04-10 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-04-17 18:00 - 20:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Weekly trad session at the Dubliner.

Release The Craicen
2026-04-03 21:00 - 2026-04-04 00:45 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Release the Craicen was a startup band new to the Irish scene in 2017. They debuted in a pub sing along on St. Patrick’s Day. You can often find them down at the Dubliner Pub in St. Paul. Focusing on a Pogues and Flogging Molly influenced Irish Rock-Folk-Punk style, classic rock rhythms raise up rousing choruses while fiddle and accordion tunes reminisce days gone by. Between classic pub songs, modern Paddy Rock covers and an original or two, Release the Craicen has something for everyone.
We enjoy a diverse mix of bands and their unique styles of playing. We combine them into our own style. Those bands include The Pogues, Flogging Molly, The Tossers, The O’Reillys and the Paddyhats, The Dreadnoughts, Dropkick Murphy, Great Big Sea, and two of our local favorites The Langer’s Ball and St. George’s Folly.
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The Northerly Gales
2026-04-04 20:00 - 23:45 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
The Northerly Gales is a Twin Cities-based Celtic/Americana group. From the soaring highland pipes and fiddle to the driving rhythm, the Gales are always ready to rock. Whether you’re looking to tap your feet, forget your troubles, or just share a pint over some great tunes, look no further than The Northerly Gales.
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Wildrose Fox
2026-04-05 17:00 - 19:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Caitlin Robertson, a Minnesotan guitarist and singer-songwriter, writes original songs that weave intricate place-based, poetic narratives that tell simple truths with both sweet and haunting melodies. Her songs illustrate her connections to the landscapes she has lived in, and speak universal truths of love, heartache and longing. Collaborating with Robertson is Wildrose Fox.
Caitlin describes the style of her music as being “folk-rock-country-pop”. Her songs weave Minnesota-prairie-farmgirl, wild-unsettled-Alaskan-woman, and Southern-swampy mystery into intricate narratives that tell simple truths with both sweet and haunting melodies.

Sunday Trad Session
2026-04-05 20:00 - 23:45, 2026-04-12 20:00 - 23:45 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
New Irish Trad Session, every Sunday at 8!

The Great Irish Sing-Along
2026-04-06 19:00 - 21:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
New! First Monday of every month.
Hosted by Justin O’Carrick.
Drink promotions available.
Instruments are acceptable, but we don’t want an orchestra!

The Dub Pub Quiz
2026-04-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-04-14 19:00 - 21:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Hosted by Larry Raneri. Gift card prizes, merchandise giveaways. Drink promotions.

Irish Céilí Dancing
2026-04-08 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-04-15 19:00 - 21:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Join in the fun every Wednesday with instructors Paul, Justin, and Alex, and live music.

Tom Dahill and Ginny Johnson
2026-04-08 19:00 - 22:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Tom and Ginny bring alive the soul of Ireland. Using accordion, concertina, fiddle—and more—they play heavy music with a light touch. Performing tunes learned from the old masters, they delight audiences with passionate reels and playful songs not heard anywhere else.
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Charlie Parr
2026-04-09 17:00 - 19:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
An easily confused and very shy individual, Charlie Parr has been traveling around singing his songs ever since leaving Austin Minnesota in the 1980’s in search of Spider John Koerner, whom he found about 100 miles north at the Viking Bar one Sunday night. The experience changed his life, made him more or less unemployable, and brings us to now: 13 recordings, 250 shows a year or more, 200,000 miles on a well broke in Kia, and a nasty fear of heights. Resonator fueled folk songs from Duluth Minnesota.
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DD & Company
2026-04-09 20:00 - 23:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
DD & Company is Dick Danaher (accordion, clarinet, tenor saxophone, vocals) and Nick Jordan (guitar, vocals, tinwhistle, and foot percussion) and Philip Rampi (percussion).
Dick Danaher is a long-time luminary of the Twin Cities roots music scene, on various saxophones and accordion, most recently with Dan Newton and the late and great Rockin’ Pinecones
Philip Rampi plays bass / percussion, octave mandolin, banjo and cello with the adventurous string band treVeld, and with Josh Cleveland and the Cedar Street Band
Nick Jordan is a guitarist and singer with a love for many kinds of roots music; he is equally fond of sublime Swing ballads and raucous Jug-band hollers. He has been working for years in a duo with fiddler Mary DuShane of Prairie Home Companion fame.
DD & Company play and sing Swing, Zydeco, Western Swing, Old-Time Country, Rockabilly, and Jug-Band music, plus the odd Tango and Irish jig. The tie that binds their music is catchy dance rhythms from many cultures, propelled by the big voice of the accordion, jazzy solos on clarinet and sax, the rich tones of an electric archtop guitar of fine vintage, fierce double percussion from a small drum kit and relentless foot percussion in the French Canadian style. All band members sing enthusiastically.
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The Langer's Ball
2026-04-11 20:00 - 23:45 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
The Langer’s Ball, the two-piece Irish Folk-punk band, has been writing, touring and performing for over 15 years. Playing their own brand of traditional drinking songs and original material, their sound is harder-hitting and bigger than you’d expect it ever could be. With a thumping beat and a flurry of notes and harmonies, you’ll dash to refill your drink and cheer for more.
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The Inland Seas
2026-04-12 14:00 - 16:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Celtic/Americana ensemble with lush vocals, whistle, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin & percussion. Tunes range from rousing pub songs to emotive ballads. Featuring Jae Bea, Kamela Lise, and Drew Kelly.
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Ray Barnard
2026-04-12 17:00 - 19:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Review of Ray Barnard & The Reverberation’s album Tinted Windows To the Soul by Joe Robbie Luke – (The Roots & Funky Numbers):
At first I thought – Sweet, a converted blue-eyed souler proclaiming his authenticity. Wrong. Thankfully, Ray Bs got his own bag. Vocally, he’s drunk deep from the Bill Withers-Pops Staples well understated (and underrated). Song-wise, hes kinda Mayfield, kinda old Nashville, kinda Gamble & Huff, kinda his own deal. There s also this subtle sense of classic reggae percolating in the production. This gives it a much different slant than retro stars Sharon Jones, James Hunter, and Amy Winehouse. The clever use of horns and MPC loops adds cool neo-soul flourishes. My faves are: ‘Carolee’ and ‘Classified,’ a dense, funky, stonewall to a nosy ex-lover. I was intrigued by the protest song in reverse, Deportation Day, and loved the spooky, visceral Race with the Devil. Overall this CD is a shining jewel from out of left field.

Sea Shanty Sing
2026-04-13 19:00 - 21:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States

The Twin Cities Céilí Band
2026-04-15 19:00 - 22:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States

Mary DuShane & Nick Jordan
2026-04-16 17:00 - 19:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Mary was the original fiddler for the Powdermilk Biscuit Band on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion radio show. Over her long career, she has worked in bands playing country rock, old time, country swing, country blues, jug band, jam band and Cajun music.
Mary is very happy to be teamed up these last few years with Nick Jordan, a seasoned musician who sings well and plays guitar, mandolin, flute, whistle and foot percussion. Together they present a lively array of vintage songs from various genres, plus Appalachian and Celtic fiddle tunes.
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Devil Dodger
2026-04-16 20:00 - 23:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Devil Dodger is a Twin Cities based musician specializing in American roots music and has released six studio albums. His music draws on a range of themes from lost love, heartache, jail and going to his grandfather’s farm as a child. He is also poet and writer, but is most well-known for telling stories and talking shit.

Wild Colonial Bhoys
2026-04-17 21:00 - 2026-04-18 00:45 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Wild Colonial Bhoys—The Irish-American rockers from Minnesota are still going strong after 20 years! Where has the time gone?
Their latest EP (and twelfth overall recording), titled Scór (from the Irish for “score”, meaning “twenty”), was made in 2023 in honor of their 20th anniversary as a band.
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Their shows are a rollicking good time, the music is tight and the banter is lively, and they’ve honed their craft over their two-decade career.
Catch the Bhoys live – it’s Celtic Rock that ROCKS!
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Tune Pals
2026-04-18 20:00 - 23:45
John McCormick & Mary Vanorny are joined by Ryan Behnke and Thomas Gurke to make up the Tune Pals. Just like it sounds, pals that play tunes and have a darn good time doing it.
Traditional Irish music on accordion, fiddle, pipes, and guitar is what you’re in for, with blasts of jigs, rakes of reels, and other tunes to keep your toes tappin’ all night!
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Sweet Rhubarb
2026-04-19 14:00 - 16:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
With inspiration and influences from folk, pop, country, bluegrass, and “this ‘n’ that,” Sweet Rhubarb brings an eclectic mix of songs written by others and well-crafted originals. Exquisite vocal harmonies are a hallmark of their performances, which are always fun, warm, engaging, and inspiring. Personnel include Burna Krugler (vocals, guitar, bass, and occasional banjo), Ann Fate (vocals, guitar, banjo, harmonica and percussion), and Priscilla Thomas (vocals, bass, and guitar). The St. Paul, MN trio has been delighting regional audiences since 2009.
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Phil Heywood
2026-04-19 17:00 - 19:00 | The Dubliner Pub, 2162 University Avenue, St. Paul, 55114, United States
Phil Heywood plays fingerstyle guitar with a bluesy swing and a bucketful of whatever it takes to turn an instrumental piece into an arresting lyrical narrative. His lucid playing encompasses the down-home rhythmic groove of a Mississippi John Hurt or Leadbelly, and the sheer fluidity and melodic flair of such contemporaries as Leo Kottke. The internationally renowned Kottke, in fact, once handpicked Heywood to tour and perform duets with him. A soul-satisfying instrumentalist, Phil draws listeners in with his voice as well, singing in a warm, plainspoken baritone that blends smoothly with his rock-solid guitar work.
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