Tempest to perform ‘non-geeky' folk

Chester — Tempest, a San Francisco-based Celtic rock band, will perform at Bodles Opera House on Friday, April 20. The band mixes rock and roll with traditional music. In a review, The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that Tempest “brought down the house with its mad, high-energy mix of Scottish, Irish and Scandinavian traditions filtered through driving rock and roll. Here’s a band to convince your oh-so-bored adolescent kids that folk isn’t so geeky after all.” The band members include Lief Sorbye, the lead singer and electric mandolinist, who is originally from Oslo, Norway; fiddler Michael Mullen; bassist Damien Gonzalez, who is also a drummer and didgeridoo player; guitarist James Crocker, a native of Devon, England, and a former member of the U.K.’s folk-rock band Equation; and Cuban-born drummer Adolfo Lazo. Tempest is regularly featured at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Denmark’s Skagen Festival, Britain’s Cropredy Festival, and the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and hosts an annual festival of its own called Karfluki Fest. The group’s latest studio CD is titled “The Double-Cross.” Bodles is located at 39 Main St. in Chester. Showtime is at 9 p.m. Tickets are $17.50. For more information, call Bodles at 469-4595.