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Join the phenomenon of the Tartan Terrors blending their energy of a rock show with humor and step dance. With a distinctive sound and proud tradition of making Celtic music fun and accessible to any audience, the Terrors have played extensively across North America.

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Tartan Terrors THURSDAY, APRIL 28 OPPERMAN MUSIC HALL • 7:30 P.M. • $40 • GENRE CONTEMPORARY CELTIC, WORLD MUSIC, ROCK With an arsenal featuring classic bagpipes and fiddle, driving drum tones, and signature guitar styles, audiences will understand why Dig This Magazine declares the Tartan Terrors “one act to keep an eye on!” The Tartan Terrors use their sonic blitz to underscore award-winning Step and Highland Dancers and internationally recognized comedic performers alike. The Terrors have performed on four different continents, in some of the most prestigious festivals, highland games and theaters of North America.

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Members of the Tartan Terrors have performed on 4 different continents; in some of the most prestigious Festivals, Highland Games and Theatres of North America including: Lone Tree Center for the Arts, Colorado; Strand Capitol, Pennslyvania; Oshkosh Opera House, Wisconsin; Dublin Irish Festival Dublin, Ohio; Newport Irish Festival, Newport, Rhode Island; and Good Morning America (a full list is available upon request). Join the phenomenon of the Tartan Terrors and see why Celtic Beat Magazine hails them as “the heirs apparent to the [Celtic] mayhem”.

BIOGRAPHIES IAN WILKES IRMISCH Ian is co-artistic director with his sister of the Tartan Terrors. He has an extensive career in the professional arts. At the age of 5 he had already performed in the prestigious Great Hall of Hamilton Place, and he has never looked back! Ian holds credentials with ACTRA, CAEA, and the AFM. Ian has appeared with the Spirit of a Nation Tour, Charlottetown Festival, Robin Hood, Ross Petty Productions, 42nd Street, Hamilton Theatre Inc, Brigadoon, Drury Lane Productions and across the United Kingdom performing in 32 performances. He has appeared in a number of film and television productions including:

Death to Smoochy, Superstar, Road to Avonlea and The Santa Clause. As child he has trained at his mom’s school Sundance Studios, and went onto Ryerson University, under the direction of Nadia Potts of the National Ballet, Sheridan College and in New York City. In 1996, the Wilkes-Irmisch siblings formed the Tartan Terrors, and Celtic performances have never been the same. Ian has performed his way through Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. One of Ian’s goals is to own his own brewery whose chief export is six-foottall bottles of Schooner Beer!

EMILY YARASCAVITCH Emily began step-dancing at age 4 and took up the fiddle a short time later. Her love for both led her to the competition circuit at 6 years of age. She has classical violin training through the Royal Conservatory of Music and plays various fiddle styles.

Emily has won such prestigious titles as: 12 and Under Canadian Junior Champion; 18 and Under Maritime Fiddle and Stepdance Champion; 18 and Under Junior Canadian Champion; a Grand Masters Junior Showcase Performer; Canadian Open Duet Champion; and a Canadian Grand Masters finalist.

She is a graduate of the University of Waterloo in Honours Sciences with Minors in Biology and Music. Emily released her debut album My Passion in 2009 and released another with her trio, Branches of Silver in 2015. She has toured with the Scott Woods Band and plays

regularly with the Nathan MacDonald Duo and Branches of Silver. Emily is currently a full time violin and stepdance instructor in Oshawa, Ontario.

DANIEL PENTECOST Daniel Pentecost began playing the violin at 12 years old. He studied the Suzuki violin method with Beverly Drukker. Moving quickly through the method, he began playing with youth orchestras in the area including The Sumner County Youth Symphony, and The Youth Strings Orchestra at the Blair School of music.

Shortly after starting the violin, Daniel began studying the bagpipes. Playing throughout high school and college, he competed in solo competitions throughout the southeast, eventually making it to an Amateur Grade II classification. He also had the honor of competing with such bagpipe bands as Nashville Pipes and Drums, The Tennessee Scots Pipe Band and The Atlanta Pipe Band.

When he was 14, he started studying different fiddling styles with Crystal Plohman at the Blair School of Music and played in the group Fiddle Frenzy, which she directed. It was also at this time that he first saw Barrage, a fiddling group based out of Calgary, Alberta. It was Barrage that inspired Daniel to pursue music as a career.

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Daniel attended Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he majored in Commercial Violin with emphases in Performance, and Composition and Arranging.

There he had the honor of studying violin with Elisabeth Small, Tammy Rogers-King, and Tracy Silverman; composition with Dr. Bryan Clark; and arranging with Dr. Jeff Kirk.

While at Belmont he performed with The Belmont University Symphony Orchestra, Southbound and Phoenix. He performed in three broadcasts of Christmas at Belmont, played fiddle with Jenna Basso in both the Country and The Best of the Best Showcases, and was part of the house band for the 2010 Commercial Music Showcase.

After graduating with honors from Belmont, he auditioned for, and was hired by Barrage.

He toured with Barrage from August 2010 till May 2012. While with Barrage he played in 8 different countries on three continents. These tours included two tours to China, three to the Netherlands and two to Italy. He performed with them for festivals; awards shows; and Beijing TV’s Global Gala broadcast for the 2012 Chinese New Years Celebrations at the Water Cube, home of the 2008 Olympic aquatic events.

guitar. Jake regularly gigs around the Greater Toronto Area with Big Otter Creek as well as many singer-songwriters. Jake was fortunate enough to travel a lot growing up and therefore experienced a vast amount of music around the world first hand.

PHILL HOOD Phill is a singer-songwriter and performer from St. John’s, Newfoundland. Since moving to Toronto in 2003, he has been blessed over the years to share the stage with many of the city’s most talented musicians. Phill spends most of his time playing Celtic and rock music in many venues across the Greater Toronto Area, whether it be with his cover band Ladyshake and bandmate Jon Mccann, or as a solo artist (myspace.com/phillhood), there is rarely a moment that Phill is not wielding his guitar and singling a soulful melody. Having grown up in rugged Newfoundland, Phill was exposed to Celtic music and culture at a very early age, but did not truly embrace it until he left his homeland to study music in Toronto and started to miss the sounds that reminded him most of home. Having honed his craft in many a dark pub, Phill quickly found himself in a network of similar minded musicians and began working with fiddlers on a regular basis, trying to match the music of his roots with the flare and passion of a modern rock show.

2022 marks Phill’s eleventh year with the Tartan Terrors, and if you haven’t met him at a show yet, then you’ll usually find him either serenading a group of people with a sing along, or carrying on with locals at a nearby pub.

CHRIS KERBA A 20-year guitar veteran, Chris is proud to suit up in blue! For the past 10 years, he has played professionally both with the Tartan Terrors and Eclectic Revival. In addition to playing guitar, Chris is also an accomplished Bodhran player. His take on classic Celtic tunes, as well as new age music will have you singing all the way home! In addition to his love for music, Chris also a professional comedian, actor, writer, and director.

CHARLIE MCKITTRICK Charles Richard Thomas McKittrick fell in love with drums at age nine but he fell in love with rhythm and music long before that. He discovered a pair of pipe band drumsticks in his Father’s closet at age six, and has been leading straight from the heart ever since. His hometown of Hamilton, Ontario provided many early opportunities as a budding musician, including the year he was a percussionist with the Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.

Over the course of his 20+ years playing, Charles (or Charlie as he is most often called) has toured North America extensively with such bands as MicLordz & Sauce Funky (MLSF) and TimeGiant. TimeGiant would also provide him the privilege of traveling to Germany and Singapore to perform in front of international audiences. Some notable acts that he has been able to share the stage with include: Snoop Dogg, The Tea Party, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience, Headstones, Sam Roberts Band, The Trews

Now a permanent Nashville resident, Daniel is continuing to pursue a career in music. He performs regularly with The Field Larks, Autumn Rose, Gary Ray, The Tartan Terrors, Jared Mitchell, Jamie Tate, The Lockets and Megan Moreaux, and is enjoying teaching in the Middle Tennessee area.

JAKE SAENZ Jake is a Toronto-based bass guitar and guitar player. Jake plays in a handful of bands covering all genres of music including hard rock, country, folk and Celtic. After playing many different instruments ranging from drums and bagpipes to guitar and piano, Jake ultimately chose to focus on bass guitar and

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- - Thornton Wilder

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In 2009 Charlie earned his Bachelor of Music from the University of Windsor where he studied classical music as a percussion major under the direction of Dr. Bryan Malito and Dr. Nicholas Papador. For the last 10 years Mr. McKittrick has been an active drum instructor, providing one-on-one lessons either as a contractor at various professional facilities or at his own private studio.

Aside from drumming with Tartan Terrors, Charlie also performs with Andria Simone, Henry Taylor & The Longhorse Rangers, Flat 5, Nighttime Ritual, Jeremy De Freitas, Jay Macedo, Ladyshake and Phill Hood & The Exclamation. Being a singing multiinstrumentalist, Charlie often appears solo where he plays acoustic guitar and sings either his original material, or from a 300+ cover song repertoire. Pit band work is another area of music that Charlie has had the chance to explore, including drum performances of Little Shop of Horrors, The Phantom and Evita. A recent highlight for Mr. McKittrick saw him drumming for Finger Eleven at the 2016 Edge CASBY Music Awards.

Aside from performing and teaching full-time, Charlie is composing video game music for Once Upon A Time In The 80’s as well as recording his debut solo album entitled Spirit Of Change. What’s next for “The Kit Trick” McKittrick? The answer lies just on the other side of his unwavering decision to dedicate the reminder of this lifetime to his very first true love; music.

IN MEMORIAM ELLEN WILKES IRMISCH, 2019 Ellen was the co-director of the Tartan Terrors with her brother since 1996 and she felt incredibly blessed to work with such incredible fellow artists. She performed throughout North America in numerous Theatres, Festivals, Renaissance Faires and Corporate Events. Past performance credits include: Carousel and Our Town, Stratford Festival; Beatrice (Much Ado about Nothing); Viola (Twelfth Night); Belle (Scrooge); Tim Allen’s The Santa Clause; Anne of Green Gables II. Choreography highlights include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Memories of the Rat Pack, Much Ado about Nothing, A Christmas Carol, Ontario Renaissance Faire, Great Lakes Medieval Faire, Hello Dolly,

Emily Yarascavitch and Peter McArthur

Motown Review, Jasper Station and the Canadian

PETER J. CORNEIL 1975-2019

performed with many Celtic artists, including,

Peter’s passing. He was a foundational member

Premier of Norm Foster’s Sitting Pretty. She

It was with great sadness that we learned about

Bonnie Rideout. Al Pettaway, John Doyle and

of the Tartan Terrors, and is someone who

Matt Bell. A member of the British Association of Teachers of Dance (BATD), Ellen was a Fellow in Ballet, Stage, Highland, and a member Scottish National, Step Dance and Freestyle. She taught for over 29 years and until 2009 headed up the Academy of Film & Performing Arts, a facility her mother started in 1961. She was a member of Actra, CAEA and AFM and received training at York University, Ryerson University Dance Program, and was a graduate of the Ryerson Theatre Program. One of Ellen’s greatest prides in being a Tartan Terror was the work the

helped to created many wonderful memories in our performances. Known as Otto Bahn, he was also involved with the Indie Wrestling Circuit, had been an employee of TD Bank and most recently, Ford Canada. Peter’s love of his life was his beautiful partner Amber, and his three stepchildren Bronwen, Cullen and Finn.

He will be deeply missed, however his great laugh, many stage antics and true friendship will live on in our hearts. Thank you for your incredible support and the next time you are out, raise a glass to honor Pete, and may we

band has done to support breast cancer research

always remember to live life to the fullest, as

and other charitable organizations.

he did every day.

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