Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc

Subject: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: chazkratz
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 09:28 PM

The fine African American old time string band The Carolina Chocolate Drops newsletter reports the following:

This week, we are so, so excited to be playing in Ireland!

Tomorrow, we will play our first show on the Emerald Isle - at The Errigle Inn in Belfast!

Then, on Thursday we will head over to Omagh to play at the Strule Theatre. Finally, on Friday we'll be Rathfriland at the Bronte Centre.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be touring all over Europe, with stops in Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Holland and Belgium. Check out our calendar for all the details. We are very excited and will try to update as much as possible.

If you know anyone in this neck of the woods, please send them our way!

Thanks!
-the Carolina Chocolate Drops


Charles

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: Gulliver
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 09:50 PM

Thanks for that!

I hope they come down this way--I've seen several videos of them and they are excellent, especially if you like old-timey music.

Don

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: Gulliver
Date: 25 Feb 08 - 10:11 PM

They're not too far away--Naul, next Saturday night, so I should make it...

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: Ernest
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 02:08 AM

Since they not going to play anywhere near me or within traveling distance: will you please give us a report, Gulliver?

Best wishes
Ernest

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: nickp
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 05:49 AM

And England and Europe:

Tue 26 Feb Errigle Inn, Belfast
Thu 28 Feb Strule Theatre, Omagh
Fri 29 Feb Bronte Centre, Rathfriland
Sat 1 Mar Seamus Ennis Centre, Naul
Sun 2 Mar Playhouse Theatre, Derry
Mon 3 Mar Maverick @ Zebra, Maidstone
Tue 4 Mar St Bonaventure's, Bristol
Thu 6 Mar North Mundham Village Hall near Chichester
Fri 7 Mar Cluny Newcastle
Sat 8 Mar Tolbooth, Stirling
Sun 9 Mar Memorial Hall, Sheffield TBC
MOn 10 Mar New Morning, Paris, France
Tue 11 Mar Mediator Club, Perpignan, France
Wed 12 Mar Le Jam, Montpellier, France
Thu 13 Mar Blues Autour du Zinc, Beauvais, France
Tue 18 Mar Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland
Wed 19 Mar Landgoed Roepaen, Ottersum, Holland
Thu 20 Mar Q Bus, Leiden, Holland
Fri 21 Mar N9, Eeklo, Belgium

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:11 AM

Enjoy, folks! And if you get a chance, of course, give them the standard wonderful mudcat welcome - you'll be glad you did.

I'm so excited for these guys, and for people over there to have a taste. It's a match made in heaven : )

Dani

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: BanjoRay
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 09:30 AM

The gig in the Sheffield Memorial hall on March 9th seems to be a non-goer. It's not on the Choc Drops' website list, nor the Memorial Hall's - they've got another name that night.
Real shame - I was looking forward to it. I saw them in North Carolina and got to meet them - they're great. Heavily influenced by the old fiddler Joe Thompson, they put a superb black feel into Old Time music.
Ray

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: Gulliver
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 10:17 AM

Hi Ernest, how are you doing? Yes, if all goes well I'd be more than happy to provide a review. It's a funny co-incidence--only last Saturday we had a little bluegrass/old-time sing-song in the Garda Club, and I was telling my friends about the Chocolate Drops, and we were saying we'd have to go to the States if we wanted to see them, and here they are now on my doorstep (metaphorically speaking)!

Don

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: nickp
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 12:00 PM

Hey Ray, that's a shame - you could always blast up the A1M to Newcastle! Or come down to Bristol. Nick

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 09:29 PM

I am very glad they are spending that long over there. They are excellent....

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: Ernest
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 07:57 AM

Hi Don,
the luck of the Irish certainly! I am fine but a little disappointed that CCD won`t make it to Germany...

Best wishes
Ernest

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: Leadfingers
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 02:55 PM

Something must have gone wrong !! M H played them on his Prog tonight !
Nice to hear some good stuff other than on Late Junction .

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 04:36 PM

Nearest gig to me is on Monday at Maidstone, and I won't be able to make it there. Too bad. Here is a YouTube clip of the group. Yes indeed!

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: Shaneo
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 05:45 PM

They must be doing pretty well, I just heard an interview on R.T.E radio today, they played a few songs live on air. Sounded like 5 string banjo, fiddle, and some kind of wind instrument that I couldn't make out what it was. A good sound indeed.
Playing out in ''The Naul'' the weekend, 10 minutes drive for me, It might be too late for a ticket,

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 06:30 PM

Look at that link I gave and you'll see what instruments they would have been most likely to have been playing.

Subject: RE: Carolina Chocolate Drops in Ireland, etc
From: nickp
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 10:15 AM

The Naul is a tiny venue (Seamus Ennis Centre?) if it's the one I'm thinking of but worth a phone call.

That wind instrumnet could well be a jug (as in jug band).