St. Patrick's day hooley at the Crossing 2006!

We are currently in Soundfield putting the finishing touches on a extended play demo. It includes 10 tracks (5 vocal and 5 instrumental). We will be selling it at performances, rallies, streetcorners, boweries, (just about anywhere we can) in order to line our pockets a bit and raise funds for the full length-large press album. If you are interested in obtaining a copy, please contact us at tlancaster@hotmail.com (or better yet-see us at a show) and we will get it to you in the most convienent way possible. Price-$10

Well, it looks like we have the wonderful opportunity to play again at Mother's Trust/Mother's Place (Sri Sarada Devi ashram) www.motherstrust.org . We will be performing for their coffee house series on April 9th with a great old time string band out of Lansing, MI called the Java Junkies http://my.voyager.net/~bonhanno/javajunk.htm (This site gives a picture and tells you a little about them). They will play first from about 5 to 6pm, then we hit the stage from 6:30 to 7:30. If you have never seen the Java Junkies before then here's your chance! They are great!!! The concert only costs a few bucks and all the proceeds go to benefit the ashram.

Is it that time of year again already? Yes-time for St. Patrick's day. We will be playing downtown Grand Rapids at River Bank Books and Music www.riverbankbooksgr.com from 12:00 noon until 2:oo pm. Put some Irish creme in your coffee and join us for a hooley! After that, we pack up and head off to what used to be called the Westwood Ranch (Now I believe it is called At the Crossings-5760 W River Rd NE Belmont, MI 49306). We will be playing there from 6 pm-on trading off sets with a group of Irish tenors. They are changing the name and dedicating the new bar with a rousing set of pipe tunes from our own Jessie MacIntosh! Hope to see you there and in the meantime Slainte!!!

Congratulations to our friend Drew Nelson www.drewnelson.net as he won best folk album of the year at the 2006 WYCE jammies for his new album Immigrant Son. It also looks like he has been picked up by a record producer/radio programmer in Scotland and will have UK and European distribution! I am happy to report that I had the privilege to play fiddle on several tracks- Brand New Day, Immigrant Son, Anchorage and Terry's tune which is a little ditty I came up with for the album's title track. It was good fun recording at Mackinaw Harvest Music www.mackinawharvestmusic.com and we wish Drew all the best!