Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: GUEST,MC Fat Date: 13 Mar 06 - 06:44 AM Myself and Irish piper Brian Howard will be at the Freemasons at Hillsborough Corner Sheffield on Friday afternoon. |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: greg stephens Date: 13 Mar 06 - 06:33 AM The Boat Band is playing at the Squirrel Inn, Wollerton, nr Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, UK, Europe, the World, the Solar System, the Galaxy, the Universe. If you're coming, bring an extra tenner. OUR NEW CD IS JUST OUT!!!!!!!! |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: Daithi Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:18 AM Hope you have a great time Bloke at your gig in Beverley! Gone2theDogs (er..Ian and me!) are playing a bistro, "Christpher's",in Lincoln Friday lunchtime, then the Jolly Brewer's in the evening. Saturday night we're supporting a couple of other acts at Lincoln's Drill Hall. The first and last will be gentler - but the Jolly Brewer gig will be deadly!! They're always up for a riot and a dance - great fun there! See you at a session again soon... Slán go fóill - Dáithí |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: alison Date: 12 Mar 06 - 11:50 PM starting Wed & playing everyday until sunday including 8am - 12 midnight Fri a very lucrative little week here in Sydney slainte alison |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: GUEST,jets Date: 12 Mar 06 - 05:40 PM I will be playing the 4 Irish tunes that I know and some other stuff at the Maine Street arts in Brunswick Maine USA. From 6.00pm to 7.oopm. Joe .E. Theriault S/ jets |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: melodeonboy Date: 12 Mar 06 - 05:36 PM I agree with the previous comment from Guest. I certainly have nothing against Irish music, but I fail to see why St. Patrick's Day should be of such great significance in parts of England where the number of Irish people is minimal, whereas St. George's Day is ignored. It's all a bit of a theme park, ain't it? I can remember spending St. Patrick's night in a fairly large town in Co. Donegal in the mid nineties. I went to seven pubs in search of traditional Irish music and found blues, rock, country, a disco and even some buggers singing "Streets of London"!, but not a trace of traditional Irish music. Had I stayed at home in Kent, I could have made a short journey into Maidstone (where the Irish are very few and far between) where they had traditional Irish music on offer for St. Patrick's night! And as for lager with green food colouring in it: well, nuff said. |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: Declan Date: 12 Mar 06 - 02:20 PM No gigs this year as I'm going on a holiday in Spain on 16th. I'll probably find an Irish Bar and join the locals the current pats, ex-pats and wannabe Pats in a glass of green St Miguel. |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: GUEST Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:03 AM and why not St Georges day? never could understand why the English celibrate this Irish Holiday but let their own pass without a word. English singing Irish rebellion songs, doesn't seem right somehow, but they will do anything for money! |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: Richard Bridge Date: 12 Mar 06 - 07:23 AM Fri 17 AND Sat 18 at the Ship, North Kent, England |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie Date: 12 Mar 06 - 07:02 AM ...I'm playing in Holmfirth as well on friday night, across the road from Sean Cannon at the Nook, should be good as I've got Kenny Clarkson and Malcolm Stocks from the 'Hot Punch Ceilidh Band' doing it with me! And on Saturday night we're over in Swinton near Manchester, can't remember the name of the pub but it's got a Lion in the title? |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: GUEST,Peter at The Picturedrome..Holmfirth Date: 12 Mar 06 - 06:19 AM Sean Cannon of the Dubliners will be playing at The Picturedrome in Holmfirth this Friday night (17th)..plus The Cassidy School of Irish Dancing.......Should be a good one....www.picturedrome.net |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: Jeremiah McCaw Date: 12 Mar 06 - 02:20 AM I'm happy to say I'm taking part in two celebrations. (Warning - sneaking in some bald-faced promo here) First one is on St Paddy's Day itself. In Brantford, Ontario: The Brantford Open Stage is doing a fundraiser for itself. Details here. Second one is on the 18th, in nearby Waterford ('bout 25 minutes south of Brantford) in the newly renovated Old Town Hall. This building includes a 1904 old-fashioned concert hall / ballroom that is just a delight to perform in. Tom Jordan and Friends (including meself) are doing a concert there to raise funds for the continuing restoration of the hall as well as for certain impoverished musicians (ahem). Click on the Old Town Hall link for fuller details. |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: Kaleea Date: 12 Mar 06 - 01:44 AM I'll be playing a couple of days early at a bar in a popular beach area. They found out I do "Celtic" & snagged me for some womens' event. They say that it's a good thing that I perform acoustically because they don't want the loud drunken brawl stuff. On St. Pat's I'll be doing some of what I normally do, playing a couple of nursing homes doing the Irish American stuff & visit elementary schools storytelling, playing & singing & teaching a basic jig. Because I'm still kinda new to San Diego, I'm not in a Ceili band yet. I normally prefer a nice family Ceili to the loud rock bar scene. |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: Briagha Date: 11 Mar 06 - 11:15 PM Like you, Windsinger, I learned early on that my solo Scottish & Irish folk singing doesn't appeal to the rowdy crowds in the pubs... but then, they don't much appeal to me either, so everyone is happy. But I also learned that every nursing and convalescent home around is dying for Irish music during St. Pat's week. It's great-- I have tons of gigs for the next week, and they're easy for me because I don't have to set up sound.. it's just me and my guitar, "unplugged." The pay for each gig isn't great, but with so many of them, it's a lucrative week, plus I get to play for appreciative audiences. The only down side is that they will all want to hear those non-Irish Irish songs like McNamara's Band and When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, but I've found a way to put a bunch of the choruses into one 7-song medley that makes a great closer... They all get to sing along and have a grand time, and I don't have to learn the verses. |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: Bat Goddess Date: 11 Mar 06 - 04:31 PM The Press Room in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Curmudgeon and his group have played there every St. Patrick's since Jay Smith opened the place in '77. And Bob Frost (banjo) only missed one year. It'll be my third year as an official part of the band rather than as a "guest vocalist" later in the evening. Hope the audience is like it was last year -- the best ever. Older crowd of listeners (!!!) earlier in the evening and a younger crowd that was more interested in listening (!!!) than carousing lter in the evening. You'd think the cover would keep the carousers downstairs, but that doesn't always happen. Linn |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: GUEST,Tom Bliss Date: 11 Mar 06 - 04:29 PM Where are the Melborn crowd going this year? (Melborn, Bradford UK, RIP) |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: DonMeixner Date: 11 Mar 06 - 04:18 PM 11 jobs in the next two weeks. Just added two more. P.J. Dorsey's in Syracuse, NY on the 17th. The Hotel Syracuse on the 18th for parade day. are the biggies. All the rest are private clubs and parrish parties. Like Clinton said,"Playing all day, and making a BUCKET of cash!" Fully reported and declared on 1099's bucket of cash. Don |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: gnu Date: 11 Mar 06 - 03:54 PM I will again be at home, nursing my injuries. I envy you all! Break two legs and a pint for me. |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: Bloke in the Corner Date: 11 Mar 06 - 03:48 PM The Ringside, Beverley Road, Hull, England. Greg on the box, Carol Dawson on the flying fiddle fingers, me on all the other bits. I don't know, but it may be free entry - so to speak. Anyone local coming? |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: DannyC Date: 11 Mar 06 - 07:10 AM Here's what we're up to in Lexington and Northern Kentucky. I am way too old for this: Today - Saturday, March 11th 2:00PMish McCarthy's on Upper Street, Lexington, KY - after the parade - (w/ Beverly Buchanan, Labhrás Draper, his son Brendan, and my singing daughter, Katie. We will likely be joined by a gazzillion wiggy shtep dancers.) (The jawdropper last year was when a couple of nearly-extinct Kildaremen traiped thru the garden door in foxy redcoat regalia having settled their horses in the back bar. Fortunately for all, the horses had priorly emptied themselves on Main Street during the parade.) Thursday, March 16th 7:00PMish Mulligan's, Lexington, KY - A song or two and few quiet tunes (859) 277-0071 Unplugged and unstructured participatory Irish craic. Players, singers, punters and clappers welcome. Friday, March 17th 12:30PM 'til 3PM - The Pub, Crestview, KY 5:00 - 7PM Jack Quinn's, Covington, KY www.jackquinn.com 10PM 'til Capitulation - McCarthy's in Lexington, KY Cheers, Danny |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: Padre Date: 10 Mar 06 - 10:52 PM Playing at Brian Center Nursing Home - Low Moor, VA Padre |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: Cluin Date: 10 Mar 06 - 10:19 PM The Legion in Blind River, Ontario. |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: michaelr Date: 10 Mar 06 - 07:27 PM I'll be at Murphy's Irish Pub all day, first doing sound for the opening act, then playing with my band, Greenhouse. The next day we're playing at a church CB&C dinner. I don't really look forward to playing on P-Day because it's such a zoo -- but the money is better than usual. Cheers, Michael |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: open mike Date: 10 Mar 06 - 01:17 PM I will be playintg together with a small crew of folks' and a story teller is joining us in the entertainment at a benefit for a community garden in a small rural town in the mountains...if the snow permits access. Laurel and the Wild Mountaineers String Band. |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: Windsinger Date: 10 Mar 06 - 01:08 PM I may well end up here Friday. Not playing, just imbibing; it's where we spent St. Pat's. (Wish the website listed who's headlining. They MUST be featuring a band, it'd be suicide for them not to!) Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: Sorcha Date: 10 Mar 06 - 12:44 PM Nope, nada....just go have fun. |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 10 Mar 06 - 12:37 PM Playing all day, and making a BUCKET of cash! |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: dulcimer42 Date: 10 Mar 06 - 12:15 PM Yes, hammered dulcimer music at the local restored "opera house." "A half hour of wallpaper music as they eat their dinner. |
Subject: RE: St. Patricks' Day Gigs? From: cyder_drinker Date: 10 Mar 06 - 12:13 PM Our "roving friday" session falls in one of the local Bikers pubs this St Pat's. Rock on! (Just picture drunk riverdancers in leather, you'll get the picture. It's gonna be like the Rocky Horror show, but without the high heels and stockings!) |
Subject: St. Patrick's Day Gigs? From: Windsinger Date: 10 Mar 06 - 12:01 PM So of the Celtic musicians among you: who's playing where next weekend? Myself, I may have to sit this one out. Harp-music doesn't appeal to the average rowdy-minded tavern drunk on The Day -- or when it might, it's too easily drowned out by hurdy-gurdies, concertinas, drums and the like. More power too them, it means I can take the evening off, relax, and listen while I knock back a few shots. ;) (I may have a quieter, smaller gig lined up for the 18th though.) Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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