Time for Hot Gigs and Cold Beers!!

With the weather getting warmer, the Festival season gets into full swing. Or at least gets a good swat at it...or maybe just a putt...either way, there are Festivals aplenty coming up here in northern California, starting this weekend with the Sacramento Valley Highland Games, taking place in Woodland at the Yolo County Fairgrounds. 

There will be all the regular Scottish Games fun: beer, whiskey tasting, guys in kilts, bands with Bagpipes (with guys in kilts), bagpipes competitions, Scottish dancing competitions, guys in kilts throwing big heavy things, ladies in heavy dresses following around the guys in kilts, a few sheepdogs, some smoked turkey legs, Scottish fiddling, and perhaps a few guys in kilts drinking beer and/or whiskey.

Many or all of these things can be experienced this weekend, April 26th and 27th in Woodland, and then again in Livermore on the weekend of May 17th & 18th. Click here for more info on the Livermore Games.

On the homefront we've got a Fox & Goose last Tuesday session coming up on the 29th, as well as some Contra Dances coming up soon. We've added all kinds of goodies to our website, www.nine8thsirish.com, including a link to the video footage that was part of our Pre-St. Patrick's Day Fox & Goose show, when KCRA-Channel 3 news came in and stirred up the place!! It's kinda fun to watch.

So come see us soon, add your words to our Blog if you want, send us an email anytime, nine8thsirish@nine8thsirish.com, and most importantly, follow Mark Twain's advice:

"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."

New Website!!

Well, we've successfully negotiated through the maze of domain names, hosting options, database operating systems and so on. After all that, we can now say that our website, though not perfect, is finally up and running!!

Our website lives at www.nine8thsirish.com, and contains the requisite photos, song samples, links, shameless self-promotion, and more!! Soon we'll add a form to join our mailing list (we're still getting that set up), and we'll have sound clips of all the tracks off our CD. For now, there are a few full tracks, plus a link to the live radio broadcast from last year's Main Stage set at the KVMR Celtic Festival. Just visit the MUSIC page.

Check it out, click on everything (it's virtually unbreakable!! ;-)

Cheers and blog on, baby!!

N8i

Until Next March 17th........Deep Breath, everyone!!

Though we had a great time on March 17th, St. Patrick's Day, and all the musical-filled days prior to that, we are OK with having a few days to catch up on our rest!! As we are all so fond of saying, Real Musicians Have Day Jobs.....and we all had to go to work on Tuesday after being at the Casino until almost 10pm!! But we really had a great time, and want to say thanks to a few people for helping us make it through the weekend:
-Frank and everyone at the Fox & Goose, we love you!!
-Janet and Phyllis at the Vallejo Yacht Club...we're checking our calendar for next year!!
-Thanks again to Laurie DesJardins and the gang at KVMR-FM radio....we'll be crowing about that for a long time!! We'll see you all in September, one way or another!!
-Kyle and the whole crew at the Long Way Home Saloon - your enthusiasm puts us all to shame!! We'll be back to visit as soon as we can make it out to Willows!!
-Don Dibono at Entertainment Services, and Pete Adams at Colusa Casino Resort - thanks for the opportunity, and we're ready for more music whenever you want us!! Everyone was so nice to us at Jacks Lounge....Bo even made a bit of a profit on his blackjack investment!! Let's do it again sometime soon!!

We'll be back at the Fox & Goose for our monthly Irish session on March 25th, so we get a few days to catch our breath after such a wonderful weekend!!
Love ya!!

Linda, Chris, Kathy and Bo

N8i on KVMR Radio, and on TV!!

Here's the latest in our world:

We successfully made the trip up to Nevada City to the KVMR studio, where we joined Laurie DesJardin for a bit of chat, a few tunes, and some promo. We got a recording of the segment, and will post it as soon as we can!! 

We were at the Fox & Goose on Friday night, where a great time was had by all! We played a few tunes, we were on TV, we made some new fans, sold a few CDs - WAIT, did I say we were on TV??!! Yes I did. Turns out the local news, KCRA-Channel 3, was there doing a live broadcast, and had a bunch of revelers with Nine-8ths Irish rockin' and reelin' in the background!! We hope to get a video record of it, perhaps our first YouTube video, but for now, it's exciting to just talk about it and be able to say we were on TV!! So we had a few beers, a few shots, even a car bomb was imbibed, but no one was hurt in the making of the evening, and we're hoping that those who took us home with them did not regret it in the morning! ;-)

Saturday night, we traveled down to Vallejo California, where we were the entertainment for the night at the Vallejo Yacht Club!! This was our second year in a row enjoying their hospitality, and a great corned beef and cabbage meal to go with the beautiful view! Barring a minor vehicle mishap, it was a great evening, and we've already been asked back for next year!

Tomorrow, Monday, St. Patrick's Day, March 17th, we'll be hopping in the trusty Ford Escape Hybrid to travel to Willows California, then over to Colusa Casino Resort, where we'll end up our SPD weekend, then it's back to work on Tuesday!!

More to come later.......

linda

Hello from Nine-8ths Irish!!

We've just set up this blog in anticipation of our new website that is currently in the design/construction phase. We'll have something posted soon at (you can probably guess....) www.nine8thsirish.com!! So keep checking back, and we'll also get all the band members to do something on the Blog so it can be just as silly as possible!!