In the mid-1990s, Irish-American band Solas (Gaelic for ‘light’) burst onto the Irish traditional music scene, and today its five members continue to define the path for the Celtic music worldwide and defy the association of Irish music with pubs, green beer, and March. Solas is often drawn to musical social commentary and have covered political songs, but their fresh and unexpected arrangements of age-old tunes combined with unparalleled musicianship (on flute, tenor banjo, mandolin, whistles, guitars, bodhrán, violin, accordion, concertina, low whistle, and keyboards) make them unforgettable.