Tabor Academy is sponsoring "An Evening of Irish Music" on Friday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. in the Fireman Center, 235 Front St. The concert is open to the public and free of charge. The featured performers are Gerry O'Beirne, Jay and Abby Michaels and The Buzzards Bay Buccaneers. This concert is funded in part by the Joseph A. Tomlinson Fund for Visiting Artists at Tabor Academy.

Born in Ennis, County Clare, along Ireland’s music-rich west coast, Gerry O’Beirne is a renowned singer, songwriter and guitarist. He grew up in Ireland and in Ghana in West Africa, and has since lived in England, California and Mexico. His own compositions blend the passion found in traditional music with the freshness of contemporary song.

O'Beirne has put out several albums and toured the globe. He has performed at the White House, opened for the Grateful Dead and played electric guitar with Marianne Faithfull. He  also appeared on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion.

Multi-instrumentalists Jay and Abby Michaels make up the duo The Harper and The Minstrel. Their unique sound is influenced by celtic, medieval, renaissance, baroque and folk music. This duo specializes in airs and ballads, the occasional jig and reel and unique arrangements of traditional and contemporary celtic music.

The Buzzards Bay Buccaneers are the duo of Bob Littera (Irish bouzouki) and Kelly Reed-Hathaway (autoharp and guitar). They have been playing together since 2009 at renaissance faires, colonial events, private functions and Irish sessions throughout New England. Their upbeat repertoire includes jigs, reels and hornpipes.