Subject says it all…
This one?
I suppose we could expect Tommy Martin for one will be in attendance.
Barring last minute schedule changes and unanticipated failure of my colleagues to honor their commitment to cover the practice for the weekend I should be there too…with the K&Q Beehive C set, and B and D chanters of their make in tow as well.
I guess I’ll be there too. It’ll be my first time.
Have they told you about the initiation process yet Bill? 
You have to bring in and actually drink Budweiser at the Tap Room, right?
I’m going to try to be there
Jeff
Initiation? Can you expand on this a bit, Pat?
Ack! Yellow beer!! Reminds me of when the only beer you could get at Dublin, Ohio’s Irish Fest was Killian’s Red - never got a headache faster in my entire life.
Yellow Beer?!??
They don’t call it Bud-Mud for nothing.
Don’t worry there’ll be plenty of fine ales to be had at the Tap Room. All home-made. In fact I sampled a few last night myself.
I definitely be looking forward to hearing the Beehive set! I’ll have to tune up my C chanter for a tune with you.
So Patrick, whats this initiation business. I’m getting nervous now. Is it like a hazing thing. Maybe we’ll get Mr. Reitmann to scream at pipers, “tune up them drones” and poke them with sharpened regulator tuning pins.
Drop and give me 10!!! 
See yiz there.
Tommy
I realize my incredible ignorance in asking, but what’s this event all about? Open to the public? I’m in St. Louis and interested in coming to listen.
Never mind- just noticed the link!
Yeah, drop on by and check it out. There will some mighty music happening all weekend long.
If you haven’t seen Tommy Martin or Michael Cooney playin the pipes, it’s worth dropping in just for that alone, they’re two of the very best with very different styles.
Pat, are you joining in the revelry?
I’d like to be there, but I’ll be at the NPU Tionól instead 
Anyone else out there heading for Virginia (County Cavan, that is) ?
No E
Ah, lovely Cavan. I’ll be there with the “inlaws” this summer but will miss the tionol. The St. Louis one sounds good, too, Mary Bergin’s teaching, huh? Have fun everyone!
Justine
Larry-have a safe flight and bring back some tunes for all of us back in Cal-
April fools joke is on me!
I had canceled my plans to travel to the tionol as one of my colleagues told me he had 17 patients in hospital to turn over to me on April 1. I could not in good conscience ask one of the other colleagues to cover for me this weekend, even though she had agreed, so I had decided to stay and work instead of attending the tionol in St. Louis. Today, my awnry colleague tells me he now has 20 patients plus three of my patients having surgery today he has to see yet bringing the total to 23. When I told him of the alteration in my travel plans he let me in on the joke…there are only 2 plus my three having their master glands probed by a “brane surgin” today. So…I’ll be there! WhoHoooo!
or maybe a “brawn sturgeon”??? 
any pics form this weekends festivities posted yet???
Mike