Traditional Irish music sessions transcend stereotypes

For Rochester’s traditional Irish musicians, preserving heritage is more than a once-a-year beer-soaked bar hop.The banjo player and the tin whistler in the corner of Barry’s Old School Irish, a cozy pub on Main Street in Webster with forest green walls and tartan-upholstered bar stools, were in the middle of a lively session before a good crowd on a recent blustery Saturday afternoon. Then someone brought up the looming St. Patrick’s Day holiday, and the musicians could not co