The Princeton Folk Music Society presents Poor Man’s Gambit, a Philadelphia-based Irish music band, at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, at Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane, Princeton, N.J.
The multi-instrumentalist group comprises Deirdre Lockman (fiddle and vocals), Corey Purcell (button accordion, cittern, bodhran, vocals, and dance), and Federico Betti (guitar and fiddle).
Lockman and Purcell are steeped in the traditional Irish culture of the Philadelphia area. Both started as step dancers in childhood, and both went on to dance competitively at national and international levels. In time, however, they found their true calling in Irish music.
Betti found a different path to joining the trio. He grew up in Milan, Italy, where he first learned to play the fiddle and fell in love with traditional Irish music. In 1996 he co-founded Inisfail, a group that would become a leader in the Italian Irish music scene. He moved to Ireland in 1999. He immersed himself in the Galway traditional music scene, and in 2010 began teaching fiddle at the Galway City branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann.
Tickets in advance or at the door are: $25 ($20 members, $10 students 12-22, $5 children 11 and under). There is ample free parking. For tickets, live-stream access, and information: www.princetonfolk.org.
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