September/October

September was a very busy month with festivals.
The band had a wonderful time at the Sebastopol Celtic Festival with old friends from Old Blind Dogs. It started to rain just before the guys started their set, however, this just made for a more intimate and packed tent. The enthusiastic audience started standing and shouting halfway through the first pipe set!!

Oregon Part 2

Our last day at the Winston Games was wet so it was decided to play an acoustic set on the stage with our friends Golden Bough.


Thank to you all of our friends and fans for making our trip to the Pacific Northwest so memorable. Look out for us up there in the New Year.

Practice on the road

The boys are busy putting new material together for their new cd, recording in November and hopefully on sale in January 08. They gathered quite a crowd in this State Park,near Grants Pass.



It was much quieter in the hotel room, but maybe not for the other guests!



But the view was much better at our good friends Denis and Janet in Corvalis.

Pacific Northwest Tour 2007 - Part 1

The lads started the tour at a favourite pub, The Black Rose in Santa Rosa, this shot shows the new backdrop busted out for this tour.




The following two day long drive that took us through Oregon where the next gig was at Cozmic Pizza in Eugene, some old friends joined us for the night, thanks Paul for all of your hospitality. David had a new chanter for his Uileann Pipes - he loves to play them now!



Then on the road up to Kent, Washington before we hit the Islands of Bainbridge and Vashon. The stage at Bainbridge looked like a steel boat sunk into the ground, pretty cool.
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Bainbridge is a lovely island, thanks to Katherine for your tour and accomodation!!
After another couple of ferry trips we landed on Vashon Island, home of our good friends Mike and Cathy. David loves to play the pipes at their house, last year he was dressed in his kilt etc this year it was Jammies!!

UCSC Arboretum show in July

A few shots from the UCSC Arboretum Show in July, dancers from Rosemary Turco's school of Irish Dancers.

An update from the band.

2007 has been a very busy year so far for the band, we started off the year in a cold Wyoming with gigs in Pinedale and Rock Springs playing to audiences from Kindergarten to Senior Centers, workshops and theatre shows. We managed to make a side trip to Jackson Hole to see the elk and antelope and a great sunset over the Teton’s. This trip was not quite so memorable for David as he developed altitude sickness towards the end of the week but still managed to struggle through with the aid of oxygen tanks!

St. Patrick’s Day month found us in a very rainy Seattle for the St. Pat Day’s dash and then down in Arroyo Grande to play with Liz Carrol and John Doyle in a great show. We rounded off the month with our reunion concert at the Kuumbwa – look out for the dvd later this year.

In May we played one of our favourite places, The Red Barn, down in Los Osos then we zipped down south to play at the Fiddle and Banjo Festival in Topanga. Pictured here are John and Stu teaching a workshop on the crossover of Celtic music to Bluegrass.


The following weekend we were back up in Washington State at Port Angeles for our first visit to the Juan de Fuca Festival, a great place and wonderful crowds. It was great to meet and catch up with our old friends the Misty River girls who we first met in Shanghai, we do hope we can play a show together some time soon. Thanks to all for making us so welcome.

June 8th we were at the Utah Scottish Highland Games, our first visit to Utah, we shared the stage with two great guys from Arizona, Oceans Apart. Pictured here is a very inventive way to redesign a Mollys Revenge teeshirt by Courtney. It involved the use of scissors! We are hoping she will send us in the “how to” of her unique design.


We made a second trip down to the San Diego Scottish Highland Games, thank you to all our new fans down there, look forward to seeing you in October.

For all our Pacific Northwest fans look for us up there in August.