Everything falls off the stand, halfway through the first tune of the set… A great set, mind – Greenside Festival in the Yorkshire Dales.
Our monthly gigs at The Snickleway Inn on Goodramgate in York for September onwards are confirmed – take a look at our Forthcoming Gigs page.
Thursday 22 September
Thursday 13 October
Thursday 24 November
December – CANCELLED (sorry – Bob our guitarist will be out of action in December)
We had an unfortunate incident with the band’s website. The software provider did an upgrade (of a function we don’t even use) and broke the site. Our web master restored it, but only back to where it was a year ago, and it took a few days before we noticed it had travelled back in time.
This is why we had to take it down for maintenance. It also explains why there’s a bit of a gap between summer 2021 and summer 2022. We’ve tried to rebuild it from memory!
We always do one or two gigs around St Patricks day. These are usually a bit different to our usual set. This year we arrived to set up and were told the other act had pulled out, so could we please play from 7pm to 9pm, which we were booked for, then continue to 10.30pm. We have a lot of tunes in the back catalogue, so we made it through.
The next day we had a lovely gig in Bishop Wilton village hall – a completely different crowd and a great night!
This is exciting! Subject to the continued lifting of Covid restrictions, we will be playing these Thursdays at The Snickleway Inn on Goodramgate in York:
Thursday 22 July
Thursday 19 August
Thursday 16 Sept
Thursday 21 Oct
Thursday 18 Nov
Thursday 23 Dec
Rehearsals are going well and we’ve got a clutch of new tunes and a song or two all ready to go! We’re just waiting for the venues to reopen, and for an appointment at the hairdressers…
We made another of those home videos – this is a set of tunes we first heard at Celtic Connections in Glasgow, played by Vishten, a fantastic trio from Prince Edward Island in French-speaking Canada.
Many thanks to Angela for putting together the video and to Jack for mixing the sound – all recorded on iPhones at home in York.
Not long until we’ll be rehearsing together again – a new era begins!
Playing all acoustic, traditional instruments in venues from pubs to major festivals, extensively reworking tunes and songs from the Irish, Scottish and Eastern European traditions.
