carolina chocolate dropsCarolina Chocolate Drops, one of the rare sights to see, old-time African-American string bands don’t tend to be busy, but then few are as good at it as these are, your dance card fills up a bit quicker.

Winning the 2010 Grammy for Best Traditional Folk album for their fourth album ‘Genuine Negro Jig’ they return to us with a 5th album in hand released only a month ago on February 24th called ‘Leaving Eden’.

The North Carolina based band will be in Dublin to play Whelan’s on October 8th 2012 with tickets for this one costing you €20. Tickets are on sale Tuesday 17th April and are available from a multitude of operators including Tickets.ie, Ticketmaster.ie and Whelanslive.com.