Video 1: Dropkick Murphys, US National Anthem Video 2: Dropkick Murphys fire up the crowd with their hit “Shipping Up to Boston”

Video from the Baseball World Series 2013, Game 6 between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox, with the Boston Band, Dropkick Murphys, performing the National Anthem, with band member Tim Brennan on accordion.

The USA Today newspaper wrote “Dropkick Murphys sang the most Boston national anthem ever. Their rendition had an accordion, a banjo, and four members of the band screaming. It was so Boston it hurt.”

Many millions watch the World series on TV plus a large crowd at the stadium.

In the second video, Dropkick Murphys launch into their hit “Shipping Up To Boston” and the crowd go wild.

A version of the national anthem was performed at Game 6 of the World Series on October 30th at Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts by local band, The Dropkick Murphys. The Red Sox beat the St.Louis Cardinals and won the 2013 World Series.

The Boston based band have brought good luck to their home team before, and last night was no exception as the Boston Red Sox won the world series title in front of their home town crowd at Fenway Park. A pre-game interview with the band shared their excitement about having this magnificent opportunity to perform the national Anthem in front of their home town crowd. The performance was seen by a capacity crowd of almost 40,000 at the game as well as millions in the TV audience.

The Dropkick Murphys consisted of an accordion, a banjo and four members of the band singing. Dropkick Murphys also performed at Fenway earlier in the series, performing at this year’s clinching ALCS game on October 19.


The band’s association with the Boston Red Sox is long and proud: Their revamp of the turn-of-the-century Red Sox rally song “Tessie” became the theme song for the team’s 2004 World Series win. And, in an impressive statistic: Dropkick Murphys have played at Red Sox games multiple times in 2004, 2007 — and at the 2013 American League Championship Series clincher — with a perfect winning record at all those games.

Since their beginnings in 1996, Dropkick Murphys have risen from basic Irish-punk roots to become a self-described “rocking & rolling, raging, green-clover machine.” Starting out as a hardcore four-piece punk band, they gradually added Celtic influences and traditional folk instruments to create a unique hybrid sound that’s built them a large international fan base. The hardworking group tours nearly non-stop, and they’re particularly famous for their raucous annual St. Patrick’s Day shows in their native New England, which attract followers from all over the world.

Multi-instrumentalist Tim Brennan joined the Dropkicks in 2003, first playing acoustic accordion and mandolin, and later guitar as well. Combining hard-to-amplify acoustic instruments like the accordion with loud guitar amps and pounding drums is a real live-sound nightmare, and Tim struggled for years just to hear his instrument well on stage.

That all changed overnight when he discovered the FR-3 V-Accordion. Thanks to the instrument’s digital sound source, he gets the perfect accordion sound night after night, and at volumes that can compete with his raging rock band mates. As Tim puts it simply, “The V-Accordion is amazing. The members are: Al Barr, Tim Brennan, Ken Casey, Jeff DaRosa, Matt Kelly, James Lynch, Scruffy Wallace.

The bands’ main goal is to play music that creates an all for one, one for all environment where everyone is encouraged to participate, sing along, and hopefully have a good time. In the true spirit of punk rock they view the band and the audience as one in the same; in other words “our stage and our microphone are yours”.

The DropKick Murphys will release a limited edition vinyl box set on November 5, 2013. The box includes every studio album including for the first time ever on Vinyl — the full Singles Collections Vol. 1 and Vol. 2  (both on Double LP). Every album, from Do Or Die to Signed And Sealed And Blood, will be collected in a custom-designed keepsake box (complete with room to add future DKM albums!) and bundled with a 3 x 5 DKM PIRATE FLAG that we hope you’ll fly proudly.It’s a true limited edition: 2,000 copies.

For further information: management@dropkickmurphys.com