Young Dubliners book The Airport Tavern for the night after St. Patrick's Day

The Los Angeles Celtic rockers play Tacoma on Thursday, March 18, 2027, with tickets at $32.50–$37.50.

Every March, Irish-leaning bands pack their calendars around the 17th. Young Dubliners have taken the day after, and they are spending it in Tacoma.

Young Dubliners play The Airport Tavern on Thursday, March 18, 2027, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $32.50–$37.50 through See Tickets. The date was announced Oct. 20, and The Airport Tavern holds about 500.

It is a long lead, four and a half months out, but that is how St. Patrick's week works for a band like this one: the dates fill early, and so do the rooms.

If you only know them as the band that shows up every March, here is the short version. Young Dubliners are a Los Angeles-based, Irish-American Celtic rock band that formed in Santa Monica in 1988, according to Wikipedia. Keith Roberts, born in Dublin, is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist and the one constant member through the years. Coverage like Encyclopedia.com's entry tells the origin story: Roberts came to Southern California wanting to be a rock journalist and ended up opening a pub and starting a band instead. The group began as a bar act before going full-time in the mid-'90s.

The sound mixes traditional Irish instruments with a rock band's muscle, and the band often gets mentioned in the same breath as Flogging Molly and The Pogues. Their 2007 covers record, *All Due Respect*, ranks among their most successful releases, and the most recent album is *Stop Shaking Your Head*, released in August 2025. The current lineup is Roberts, Chas Waltz, Justin Pecot, David Ingraham and Ethan Jones.

That August 2025 record is the reason this show is more than a holiday hangover. It gives the set something newer to sit next to the songs longtime fans come for, and a 500-capacity tavern is the right scale for both: close enough to see the fiddle bow move, loud enough for a room that is ready to stomp.

The Airport Tavern fits the band's history, too. A group that started out as the house act in a Santa Monica bar is in its element in a tavern with a stage, not a theater with assigned seats. Expect a crowd that knows the choruses and a band that has spent more than three decades learning how to work one.

The timing has one more upside. By March 18, the green beer will be gone, the downtown pub crawl crowd will have gone home, and the people left in the room will be the ones who actually came for the music.

Tickets are on sale now. Circle the date, and maybe save the green shirt for one more night.

Sources: Young Dubliners at The Airport Tavern — See Tickets (prod-nts-api.seeticketsusa.us); Young Dubliners — Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Young Dubliners — Encyclopedia.com (encyclopedia.com); Young Dubliners — Qobuz (qobuz.com)