Whelan and Ventura

Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm         Tickets: $20 advance | $25 doors

Advance tickets can only be purchased online-we do not sell advance tickets at the venue. Refunds are not available within 48 hours of the event. Tickets do not guarantee seating during shows at the Royal Room. 

We are now accepting reservations for diners! After purchasing tickets, please visit the Reservations page to book a table. Table reservations require advance tickets, and are only for guests who plan to dine at the Royal Room.  We do not take reservations over the phone.

Seating for non-diners is first come, first served. Please arrive early to guarantee a seat!

The Royal Room is All Ages until 10pm. 

Whelan and Ventura

For over 50 years seven time All Ireland champion John Whelan has fearlessly explored the creative reaches of musical artistry and expression while carefully preserving the musical roots from which he originally flourished. John is a celebrated recording artist, and has recorded more than 15 CDs, appearing on more than 30 albums with other artists, and spent several weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard World Music Charts, plus John has received the “Musician of the Year” award from the Irish Music Association — twice. He is widely known for the Kips Bay Ceili Band, and for forming the John Whelan Band, which the Cincinnati Enquirer described as playing “music that stretched the boundaries of traditional Celtic," plus his energetized duo performances with Grammy Award-winning fiddle player Eileen Ivers during the first years of Riverdance.

Multi instrumentalist Jacopo Ventura hails from Italy, and is widely known in European music circles, having been with Folkemiseria, Ensemble Sangineto, and Lyradanze, among others, and currently with popular New Grass Band Gadan, with Enda Scahill. Jacopo has toured with John before in the Transatlantic Project, and is well versed in the Celtic tradition. During the last years he has collaborated with renowed and famous musicians from the national and international world music scene and performed in some of the most renowed world music festivals in Europe and abroad.