OSF - Bear's Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt features the Chieftains performing live in San Francisco in 1973 & 1976 CD

Celebrating 60 years of The Chieftains, the Owsley Stanley Foundation presents Bear's Sonic Journals:  The Foxhunt, The Chieftains Live in San Francisco 1973 & 1976. The 1973 recording finds The Chieftains on their first tour in the U.S., playing an unscheduled gig at Jerry Garcia's invitation to open for his bluegrass band, Old & In The Way.  The evening presented the perfect pairing of Irish traditional music, and its cousin, American bluegrass.  Bear's recordings of Old & In The Way cemented his reputation as a master of live concert recordings.  This is the missing half of that story -- both sonically and musically -- and one of the gems of Bear's Sonic Journal archive.  The 1976 recording (CD only) includes a second complete concert recorded by Bear, this time at the Great American Music Hall.  If The Chieftains arrived in San Francisco as relative unknowns in '73, they returned in '76 as a global sensation, headlining before a sold-out crowd at a larger ve