Solas bring Shamrock City back to the road, with a stop at BOMBYX

The Irish band, fresh off its 30th-anniversary run, plays the 330-seat Northampton room on Wednesday, March 3.

Some records are built to be heard in a room where you can hear the story. Solas's *Shamrock City* is one of them — a whole album that follows one immigrant's life through mining country, labor and murder — and next March the band brings it to one of the most intimate rooms in the Valley.

Solas play BOMBYX Center for Arts & Equity in Northampton on Wednesday, March 3, 2027, at 7pm. Tickets are $35–$55 through Tixr, and the show was announced on October 26. BOMBYX holds about 330, so this is a seated, up-close evening rather than a big-hall concert.

The ticket page bills the run as the Shamrock City / Tell God the Devil tour, and that name is the hook. *Shamrock City* came out in 2013 and tells the story of Michael Conway, a real-life ancestor of one of the band's members, following him from Ireland into the mining towns of the American West, according to coverage from WBUR and the Long Beach Current. The band toured the project heavily when it was new — Loveland's event listing shows a Shamrock City Tour stop in 2013 — and a Mountain Stage set on NPR drew from the same material, including "Tell God and the Devil."

A whole album that follows one immigrant's life through mining country, labor and murder.

Coming back to that record now follows a big couple of years for the band. Solas went on an indefinite hiatus in 2017 and returned in 2025 with a 30th-anniversary tour, as the Boston Irish and WYDaily reported. That run kept going well into 2026, with stops at the Newton Theatre in New Jersey and the Colonial Theatre, and it came with the band's first live album, sold at shows. The current lineup includes founder Seamus Egan and Winifred Horan, along with Nuala Kennedy, John Williams and Alan Murray.

Revisiting *Shamrock City* a decade and more after it came out is a different kind of statement than an anniversary victory lap. It is a concept record, and playing it in full, or close to it, asks a crowd to sit and follow a story. That is where a room like BOMBYX makes sense: 330 seats is small enough that every verse lands.

The practical part: it is a Wednesday, with a 7pm start that suits a weeknight, and the price range means the better seats are likely to go first. With this capacity, waiting until March is a gamble.

Solas have been playing for three decades, and they have chosen to spend part of 2027 telling one family's story again. Northampton gets to hear it from a few rows away.

Sources: Solas — Shamrock City / Tell God the Devil Tour 2027 at BOMBYX — Tixr (tixr.com); Solas — Radio Boston, WBUR (wbur.org); Shamrock City comes to Long Beach — Long Beach Current (lbcurrent.com); SOLAS; Shamrock City Tour — Loveland (business.loveland.org); Solas on Mountain Stage — NPR (npr.org); Seamus Egan and Solas tour — Boston Irish (bostonirish.com); Irish band Solas celebrates 30-year anniversary with tour stop in Williamsburg — WYDaily (wydaily.com); The Newton Theatre presents Solas 30th Anniversary Tour — New Jersey Stage (newjerseystage.com); SOLAS 30th Anniversary Tour — The Colonial Theatre (thecolonialtheatre.com); Solas at BOMBYX — JamBase (jambase.com)