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FLOGGING MOLLY

The Los Angeles based folk punk band is coming back to St. Louis March 10th.
Wayne Bell LOMM Reports
It’s a good time to be Flogging Molly, the Los Angeles-based
folk punk band that features Irish instruments like tin
whistle, bodhran, fiddle, mandolin, banjo and accordion to
lend tradition to their energetic electric sound. Their social
media is filled with pictures from packed-out shows and
color washed stages from their recent U.K. tour. The band
is globe-trotting for almost the entirety of 2019 with dates
spanning Europe throughout January and the first
half of February.

Crowds go wild for this energetic, fun band
The band is touring to support their sixth album, “Life Is
Good” released on Vanguard Records, which touches on
social-political topics ranging from immigration policies
to the economy to boomtowns turned ghost towns. Amidst
the somber topics, Flogging Molly never stray from the
LOM’s Wayne Bell with Nathen Maxwell of Flogging Molly optimistic bounce and catchy, Celtic mirth that have
A big draw during the weeks surrounding St. Patrick’s Day, made them crowd favorites for over 20 years.
the group will swing back stateside and land at the Pageant “The one thing we are is a positive band,” adds Dave King.
on March 10th this year with Memphis-based Lucero and “When people come and see our shows, it’s a celebra-
Face to Face from California.
tion--of life, of the good and of the bad. And we have to
take the good and the bad for it to be a life.”
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