Wednesday, November 5, 2008


Gosh I've been remiss to have waited so long to add anything to our Blog!! My apologies!!
So let's remedy that.
Here's what's happened since the Cobblestone accident....
In late August, Bo was the host of a fabulous House concert: Paddy Keenan, one of the best Uillean pipers in the world, and one of the founding members of the historic Bothy Band, along with Tommy O'Sullivan, and special guest Pete Grant, a great musician from close by in Auburn. Here are links to find out more about all three of them:
http://www.paddykeenan.com/
http://www.tommyosullivan.net/
http://www.petegrant.com/

We were all extremely entertained, and though Paddy and Tommy were obviously exhausted, they were gracious enough to all a few of us to play a few tunes with them....and the next night they did another house concert in Auburn at our friend Sharon's house. Bo was asked to come up and play a set of tunes with them, and when Paddy remarked about having played at Bo's house the previous night, he also mentioned that he had the opportunity to play with a "fiddler as good as any [he] had heard, here or in Ireland." Which made me feel all warm and fuzzy! We also got a bit of video of the evening, which we'll post soon on our website. A wonderful time was had by all, at least on our end! 

Also, Chris got the cast off his leg - though he had to wear one of those removable Velcro boot thingies for about a month, and he's not completely 100% yet (still on light duty at work), he's finally able to wear two matching shoes!! Woot!

So what else......we made it through the KVMR Grass Valley Celtic Festival (9/27-28), where we had a great time, met the members of Solas, and became completed enamored of their new album "For Love and Laughter". We are using that as inspiration for tunes for our next recording, for which we have started organizing and choosing.....perhaps studio time in January....


More to come shortly!!

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