This year, St. Patrick's Day was on a Tuesday. We all took the day off work (because as we know, REAL musicians have Day Jobs!). We are hosts of the Twice-a-Month Sunday Session at deVere's Pub, and they included us in their First Annual St. Paddy's Day Block Party!! They actually closed down L Street - one of the busiest streets in Sacramento - and had an all-day St. Paddy's Party...we played from 11am to 1pm, and had a few of the Kennelly Dancers come in as well. By the time we left, it was well on its way to being a blow-out party!!
But leave we did....and headed up I-80 to Reno! We got to Ceol Irish Pub a bit past 3:30pm, and had just enough time to set up our system, get a quick sound check, and start playing! The local news was preparing to do a live broadcast, so we played during their broadcast, which included a few dancers as well as N8i on stage...and they did three or four of those live broadcasts throughout the evening!! We played till around 7pm, and just had a blast!! The crowd was great, a few people finally got brave and danced, and the green everywhere was soooo cool!! We just love Ron, Tom, Stacie and everyone at CEOL, and are hoping to head back up there in May.
Synopsis: 2009 St. Patrick's Day, no casualties, played some good music, met some great people, and then headed back to work on Wednesday, with only the slightest of hangovers! I'd say it was a great success!! Until next year.....
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