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The explosive Celtic-rock quintet Enter the Haggis is back. There aren’t many groups in North America who could lay claim to possibly 18 different genres of music, but Toronto’s Enter The Haggis is one of them. To engage this quintet is to indulge rock, fusion, bluegrass, traditional Celtic fare, agitpop, folk, even Latin flavors. Sounds awfully confused, right? Wrong. ETH is one of those rare jewels that actually pulls it all off as if to own everything.
ETH’s live show is a musical feast- viscerally dynamic, emotionally uplifting and intellectually stimulating. The band’s oeuvre darts effortlessly from the trad strains of, say, The Chieftains and the Pogues to the frenetic pop of early Elvis Costello and even to the Latin-tinged spirit of the Buena Vista Social Club and beyond, complete with Lewington’s deftly guitar playing, the reeling of Brian Buchanan’s flawless fiddle, the diverse rhythmic machinations of bassist Mark Abraham and drummer James Campbell, and Downie’s transporting pipes, not to mention the near-perfect vocal harmonies. In fact, if you’re game, the group’s undeniable power is documented in Live at Lanigan’s Ball, a film chronicling an Enter The Haggis performance at New York’s Hartman Theatre, originally taped for a PBS special.
With its bleating bagpipes, reverberating guitars and fierce drums, Enter The Haggis sounds as if it's orchestrating a manic pub crawl. --The Washington Post
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