Take a group of Kansas City musicians with a passion for Celtic music, an Irishman with a love of all things American, and you get a cross-pollination of elements that is high octane and progressive, yet rooted in tradition. What they have come to discover is something unaffected by fads, trends and the giant maw of mind-numbing commercialism. Some call it arse-kickin' music from the heartland. Robert Oermann of Music Row Magazine calls The Elders "a band to shout from the rooftops about."