Lunch at The Bull Run Restaurant of Shirley during St Patrick's week features Peter O'Malley and The Irish American Step Dancers (from Leominster) on March 14, 15 and 16. (Wednesday through Friday). Lunch is served from 11:30am - the menu includes a corned beef and cabbage option - and the show starts at 1pm. Call (978) 425-4311 for reservations. $6 cover. Peter O'Malley turns on the Irish Blarney with his songs and jokes. The Irish American Step Dancers are a troupe of 12 girls, aged between 5 and 20. Their teacher, Anne O'Connell-Boucher, is from Gardner.

Full schedule if lunch-time entertainment available at www.bullrunrestaurant.com.

Bill Kirchen (formerly with Commander Cody) and Too Much Fun will be performing at the Bull Run Restaurant, route 2A, Shirley, MA. at 8pm, Friday, March 16. Bill plays American roots music. He celebrates an American musical tradition where country music draws upon its origins in blues and bluegrass, and in the Western swing of Texas and California honky tonks. The show opens with Ellsworth & Hicks, who were finalists at the Crossroads Music Awards 2000 for Contemporary Folk, but they really do folk/ blues/ jazz/ R&B all rolled into one. Doors open 6pm for dinner. Tickets are $14 in advance and $17 day of show. Call (978) 425-4311, or visit one of the ticket outlets, listed on www.bullrunrestaurant.com.

The Bull Run Restaurant of Shirley is throwing a St Patrick's Day party at 8pm, Saturday March 17 with NRBQ - Rhythm & Blues & a Whole Lot More. This 30-year-old band plays a singular, freewheeling, genre-busting blend of musical flavors - rock, pop, jazz, blues, R&B, polka, rockabilly etc. etc. They have appeared on soundtracks to "Where the Heart is" (Ashley Judd) and 28 Days (Sandra Bullock). Tickets are $15 in advance. $19 day of show. call (978) 425-4311, or visit one of the ticket outlets, listed on www.bullrunrestaurant.com.

Carol O'Malley joins the St Patrick's week line-up at the Bull Run Restaurant of Shirley, from about 6pm on Saturday, March 17 - St Patrick's Day itself. Carol will entertain visitors to the Tap Room with Irish ballads, accompanied by Irish fiddle, and Mike Sowa on the piano. There is no cover charge. Call (978) 425-4311 for more information, or visit www.bullrunrestaurant.com.

The Bull Run Restaurant is a popular, historic New England concert venue and restaurant. The Guercio Family, Innkeepers for over 50 years, have maintained and enhanced the ambience of this Pre-Revolutionary Tavern, and they attract top performing artists from New England and beyond, including Jay Geils, Tom Rush, Duke Robillard, Don White, Sleepy La Beef, Commander Cody, and many more.

Ticket Outlets: Tickets and pre-concert dinner reservations can also be made at: Action Music & Sound (Acton, Gardner and Leominster); Music Box (Fitchburg); Centre Music House (Framingham); University Music (Lowell); Robinson Music Co (Marlborough & Westborough); Bearly Read Books (Sudbury).