Gaelic Storm books a post-St. Patrick's Sunday at the Buskirk-Chumley

The Celtic rock band plays Bloomington's 600-seat Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Sunday, March 21, 2027, at 7 p.m.

Most years, the week of St. Patrick's Day is the busiest stretch on a Celtic band's calendar. Gaelic Storm is saving one of the nights just after it for Bloomington, and a 600-seat theater is about as good a place as any to keep the party going.

Gaelic Storm plays the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Sunday, March 21, 2027, at 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale through OpenDate, and the date was announced Oct. 27. The theater holds 600.

Gaelic Storm has built its following on Celtic rock: traditional Irish and Scottish tunes and drinking songs played with the drive of a rock band, the kind of set where fiddles and pipes trade off with a rhythm section and the crowd is expected to sing. NEPA Scene, previewing one of the band's theater stops, summed it up in a headline as Gaelic Storm bringing Celtic rock to the room, and that's the promise here too.

The band has been on the road steadily, with a run of theater dates stretching from last summer into early 2027, and Bloomington lands right in the thick of the season when this music is in highest demand. March 21 falls four days after St. Patrick's Day, which makes it an ideal time for anyone who spent the holiday itself at work, or for the people who want one more round after the parades are over.

Fiddles and pipes trade off with a rhythm section, and the crowd is expected to sing.

The Buskirk-Chumley is a good match for that kind of show. A 600-seat theater gives a band like this enough room to bring the full sound while keeping the audience close enough for the singalongs to actually work. Theater shows also tend to draw a broad crowd for Celtic acts, from longtime fans who have seen the band many times to families bringing someone along for the first time, and a Sunday evening start makes that easy.

It's also a nice change of pace for a Bloomington weekend. A 7 p.m. curtain on a Sunday means you're home at a reasonable hour, and the energy of a Gaelic Storm set is a strong argument against ending the weekend on the couch.

Tickets are on OpenDate now. With the show close enough to St. Patrick's Day that people will be in the mood for it, and a room with a fixed number of seats, it makes sense to pick yours sooner rather than later.

Dig out something green you didn't wear on the 17th, warm up your voice, and plan on a Sunday night that ends with the whole theater singing.

Sources: Gaelic Storm - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Gaelic Storm brings Celtic rock to the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre - NEPA Scene (nepascene.com); Gaelic Storm - OpenDate tickets (app.opendate.io)