Hi Everyone!

I have started taking bookings for The Halifax Ghost Walk for 2024.
I’ll have tours every Friday, Saturday and Sunday starting May 3rd.
Then 7 nights a week starting June 7th (with a few exceptions)
Private tours and school groups starting in April.

To make a reservation email dustyshalifaxghostwalk@gmail.com
*check https://www.facebook.com/thehalifaxghostwalk for updates.

July 7, 2020

Hi, a few new videos on https://www.youtube.com/dustykeleher Farmers Market Busking For Shut Ins continues at facebook.com/dustykelehermusic/live/
Every Saturday Morning 10am til Noon ADT.

May 3, 2020

Hi, I hope everyone is doing well during this time of lockdown.

I continue to perform what I’m calling Farmers Market Busking for Shut Ins every Saturday morning over at www.facebook.com/dustykelehermusic/live/ Hopefully adding some normalcy to our Saturday mornings. A chance to tune in for a few minutes while having breakfast or unpacking your groceries.

I had plans to re release 2003’s Wanderers Grounds on vinyl this year and I may still do that but the pandemic has delayed those plans. The record was nominated for best folk/roots record by the Music Industry of Nova Scotia (now known as Music Nova Scotia). I made some changes to the original release. Two songs didn’t age well and there was one recorded and mixed at the time but for some forgotten reason was left off the first pressing. These two songs have been dropped and the third put back on. It can be found on bandcamp.com/dustykeleher.

Also on the bandcamp page is a song I found on an old hard drive. A silly blues songs called In The Doghouse.

March 28, 2020

For the next couple of weeks I will be performing at home for live streaming at facebook.com/dustykelehermusic. Every Saturday morning, as if it were a trip to the farmers market, I’ll sing for a couple hours. 9:30 -11:30.

Be safe everyone.

March 25, 2020
The Road to Connemara; songs and stories in the old style, the full 2018 Halifax Fringe show, is now up on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SinFU0GeUxs

Hi everyone,  Welcome to my new website. I'm still getting my head around it, like how to load the bands in town stuff on to the show page, but let me tell you about two I have coming up.

The big one is the Record Release Party for the double LP The Way to Grace b/w The Road to Conamara, a two record set of originals supported by a band of the finest Irish players in Halifax. There's harp, fiddle, bodhrán, whistles, uilleann pipes, bass and percussion.

It's happening Saturday February 24 in the Seanchai Room, upstairs at the Old Triangle in Halifax, NS. It starts with a proper session at 7 then the release set at 8.

I'll also be playing Saint Patrick's Day March 17 with Ellen Gibling on harp at Finbar's Irish pub in Bedford NS

Here is a video of me on Global television from Monday February 19

https://globalnews.ca/halifax/videos/

March 17, Finbars Bedford 10am with Ellen Gibling on harp

Halifax, Nova Scotia, February , 2018

DUSTY KELEHER TO RELEASE DOUBLE LP AT THE OLD TRIANGLE
Saturday, February 24th In the Seanchaí Room

The Way to Grace b/w The Road to Conamara; songs and stories in the old style

Growing up, Dusty Keleher ‘s family was always proud of their Irish heritage. He had heard tales of his grandfather, Howard, performing at variety shows in Halifax in the 1930’s, and being called on to sing at parties, weddings, funerals; any sort of social gathering. But Dusty knew there was more to it than just that. So, when circumstance and fortune allowed him a bit of time, and a little bit of purse, he set out to uncover the history, culture, music and folkore of his roots.

Dusty is now releasing the fruits of his labour and study; a thesis, his latest recording, The Way to Grace (b/w The Road to Conamara). The album, a two-record set, pressed to vinyl and cd, is the culmination of a decade’s worth of exploration and study of Irish history, folkore and song.

The Way to Grace is a collection of originals, many inspired by his studies and travels throughout Ireland. “I spent a lot of time absorbing Irish melodies and sounds and they have distilled within me until I could call them my own,” says Keleher.

It was recorded with Charles Austin (Superfriendz, Buck 65, Old Man Luedecke, Al Tuck) at the Echo Chamber in North End Halifax and features Ellen Gibling on harp, Gina Burgess on violin, Colin Carrigan on violin, Glenn Coolen on whistles and pipes, Mark Currie on bodhrán, Benn Ross on percussion and Lukas Pearse on the bass.

The Road to Conamara is a tribute to the great Joe Heaney who was a master sean nós singer and storyteller. Sean nós (in English, “old style”) is an Irish form of acapella singing. Keleher found his way to Heaney while enrolled at the Irish Studies Department at St Mary’s University and The National University of Ireland – Galway (NUIG).

The Road to Conamara is a collection of a cappella songs and stories from the tradition, recorded at his home in the Irishtown district of Halifax one afternoon over a bottle of Jameson’s.

Keleher’s Irish roots run deep in Nova Scotia. Six generations ago his great-great-great-grandmother Mary Leahey, from Midleton, Co. Cork was on one of the few boats from the famine to make land in Halifax. Her husband Patrick, and son John, were butchers in downtown Halifax. Their shop was one block up the hill from where Dusty will release his record.

Saturday, February 24th In the Seanchaí Room at The Old Triangle

The Way to Grace b/w The Road to Conamara will be available at the show on Vinyl and CD.

For Bookings contact Dusty Keleher directly: dustykeleher@gmail.com