Hey kind friends and companions,
I hope you all get a chance to go out and hear and/or play some good jigs and reels.
I’ll be at five bars and a retirement home in the span of three days… And I’ve taken the week off after!
Cara 
No bars this time…We will be playing only one job this weekend - a concert at a church.
If you get bored, check the band’s website, sometime:
The best to 'ye all…
Byll
playin’ at the Crossed Keys (a pub)and then a few quiet drinks with my wife as it’s our 14th wedding aniversary.
playing flute at a St Patrick’s celebration.
In the morning I will be playing cornet at a church service in memory of a friend’s deceased sister. She died 10 years ago and left 2 little children. Very sad story.
I am going to go out and get pissed!
Turner :roll:
Me too! I’m off to see the doings at the Southbank (of the river Thames) with a couple of friends, should get to hear some tunes & see some dancing too!
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Throwing a session-party tomorrow night as a Pre Paddy’s party, then fiddling at a celtic festival on sunday.
Hi!
I’m going on tour! For the first time ever… I’m going with a group of musicians from college and a pipe band, to Pittsburgh/Wexford PA, Buffaly NY, and then Long Island NY - I’m looking forward to it! It’ll be crazy!
Ok, must go pack 
Deirdre
No specific plans for THE DAY, but there’s a Lunasa concert I’m going to on the night before.
I’ll be preforming at an old folks home. Taking the advice from a few fellow chiffers, I have talked 3 friends into backing me up on guitar and mandolin and they are even going to sing! I will be playing both my hammered dulcimer and my whistle. Wish me luck as it is my first time performing for an audience. 
Cheers,
Kathy 
3 sets at an Irish pub in a suburban town, so hopefully they won’t notice that we throw in Scots tunes and some used-to-be-celtic but now old-timey American tunes (like Kitchen Girls etc).
And they are making me croon Danny Boy. I can’t wait (for the pint after I sing it).
We had TWO gig offers for the saturday before but the @#$% fiddler wants to go CONTRADANCING instead of making $$$. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Saturday I’m playing Highland pipes, flute and whistle at a retirement home then piping at the pub that evening. Sunday I’ll be piping and fluting at one of the arts centers then back to the pub in the evening. Monday I only have plans so far for the pub. Homosexuals will be allowed to assemble at all of these events.
Cheers,
Aaron
Prolly gonna sit in my back yard (spring break rocks) and whistle badly to annoy my drunk neighbors.
'tis a monday, meaning i will be at school/work (i work on campus) from 7:30am until 10pm. so, i guess i’m not doing anything fun.
good luck to all of ye performers
Aaron could you explain to me how you make the flag move like that please?
Good luck, Chattie Kathy! You can’t miss with this music.
All the best on your tour, Dierdre! And be sure to tell me when your next tour comes to Michigan. Keep us posted on the world tour when that happens, too.
Weekenders, it falls upon my lot to sing “Danny Boy” as well. Your post made me laugh.
Sam, play your heart out! I love the idea of giving the frat house a taste of the whistle.
Cara
I’m lending my house to the St. Andrew’s Society of the Black Hills so we can stay warm before we line up for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade here in Deadwood, and I’m baking a billion pounds of short bread! Once I get the flour off my hands, I just might go and busk on the porch of the Franklin Hotel and play Hector the Hero for the Highland pipe band Deadwood hires from Montana on my B-Flat Generation, or maybe not, there’s gonna be a street fulla college kids barfing up green beer! Sigh! :roll:
Thanks Cara,
I figured they could cover up my mistakes, 
Now if I can just cover up theirs! We all decided as long as we have fun and none of the residents die while we are playing that we will have done well! 
I will post a report when I get home on Monday. Oh yeah, we are also doing “Danny Boy” :roll: but with my side kicks being the gospel jammers, I don’t know how Irish it will sound. Especially since the guy singing is a Polish/redneck/Dairy farmer! I think we will be presenting a new spin on Irish music!
Cheers,
Kathy 
Starting the festivities at lunchtime by playing background music at the open day in the Irish Club of Belgium. Onwards later in the afternoon to a reception given by Irish Army personnel attached to various international bodies here. Then to the Embassy to enjoy the hospitality of our extremely popular ambassador and wet the shamrock at the taxpayer’s expense. Unfortunately, as I’ll have to bring my pipes with me to the latter two venues, I’ll probably have to go easy on the jar in case they’re spotted and I’m asked to play.
On the 18th, singing in the choir and playing a pipes solo at the annual Mass in the historic Irish Franciscan College in Louvain - we do the O Riada Mass, and the acoustics in the College chapel are so wonderful that we even think we sound good ourselves, no matter how bad we’ve been during rehearsals elsewhere. Then a bunch of us will play more background music for a reception in the adjoining Irish Institute. Will also probably get the usual last-minute call to rustle up a few musicians to add atmosphere in the bar of the sportsground where an exhibition match of Gaelic football is played on the Sunday before or after St Patrick’s Day. All in all a quiet week, compared with the way things used to be when I came here first.