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Join us for an evening of film and music as Director Will Chase premieres his award-winning film Coming Home: The Guggenheim Grotto Back in Ireland to our Upstate friends and neighbors.
The forty-five minute film will be followed by an acoustic set of some of the band’s fan favorites.
Director and self proclaimed super-fan Will Chase goes to Ireland to film the Irish duo The Guggenheim Grotto (Mick Lynch and Kevin May) as they perform for the first time in a decade, and possibly last time ever. A love letter to a brotherhood that has spanned decades through many ups and downs, the film becomes an homage to the duo’s body of work and to the nostalgia that holds for so many, especially each other.
Mick Lynch is a singer and songwriter from Dublin, Ireland.
As a founding member of the Irish bands, The Guggenheim Grotto and later Storyman, his music has featured in many TV/Film soundtracks, including One Tree Hill, Pretty Little Liars, Men in Trees, Eli Stone and Brothers and Sisters. The band’s four studio albums enjoyed great critical acclaim, topping the iTunes folk charts in the US and in Ireland.
Of their debut album “Waltzing Alone”, in 2005 , Nic Harcourt of LA’s KCRW declared it “one of the most beautiful records of the year”.
Their song “Philosophia” was such a favorite of Steve Jobs that he made sure it featured on the very first iPhone models. An Independent Music award followed in 2007 for best folk song/songwriting.
Parting ways with his writing partner, Kevin May, in 2013, Lynch has concentrated on his solo projects, releasing Aliens, Ghosts and Lovers in 2015. Single releases followed with Lawrence of Arabia(2022), Treading Water (2022) and Cold Old River (2023), the latter, a duet with Mary Stuart Masterson. Lynch’s one man show, An Irish Goodbye, directed by Will Chase (Nashville, Stranger Things, A Crowded Room) made its stage debut in April 2024 at Kaatsbaan Cultural Center, in Tivoli NY, to rave reviews.
An Irish Goodbye, with Lynch’s songs and visuals, is a tale of love and loss, of Lynch’s family back home in Ireland and his musical journey that ultimately led him to call Upstate NY home.
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Will Chase is a critically acclaimed director, producer, and Tony Award-Nominated actor. He recently released his documentary COMING HOME: THE GUGGENHEIM GROTTO BACK IN IRELAND, which won Best Short Film at the 2025 LIMEHOF Music Documentary Film Festival, and Best Director of a Documentary at the 2025 CHAIN Film Festival. His other directing credits include Mick Lynch’s one-man-show, “An Irish Goodbye” (Kaatsbaan Cultural Park), TRUNK SHOW (Best Short Film-2021 RIFF), DAGGER, “Today Show”, I’M
RIGHT HERE, Mick Lynch’s music video “Lawrence of Arabia”, and Lola Colette’s music video “Nowhere To Run” for JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4. As an actor, he has appeared in over fifty television shows, most notably as “Luke Wheeler” on ABC’s Nashville. Other TV appearances include THE CROWDED ROOM, STRANGER THINGS, SHARP OBJECTS, TIME AFTER TIME, THE GOOD WIFE, and the Peabody-Award Winning limited series DOPESICK.
Having starred in thirteen Broadway shows, he received the 2013 Tony Award Nomination and Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination for BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN MUSICAL for the Broadway revival of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, and most recently appeared in the Broadway revival of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS.
Will trained classically as a percussionist and as a conductor with world-renowned conductor Robert Spano at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and has premiered countless compositions, working and performing with some of the most important composers and musical luminaries in the world, including Lorin Maazel, John Adams, and John Cage. He is the father of actors Daisy and Gracie Chase, and lives in Brooklyn with his partner, composer/singer, Ingrid Michaelson.
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