So, Ibbie, "Ziggy played guitar" from the looks of how your axe is strung.

Wolf, perhaps if we ever jammed, it could be multiple bodhrans (which tend to develop hypnotic rhythms) or my bodhran to your flute (good for dancing).

But bodhran's only what I double on. I play the Highland bagpipe. Different sort of woodwind... a compass of nine notes, A to A plus a G on the bottom, one dynamic -- fff -- and no rests. Scale Of Bagpipe is a pentatonic-with-supplements approximation of B flat, and that is the only scale it plays -- oh, and my A is everyone else's B flat too.

@Urbane Guerrilla: Are you familiar with the band Brother?
Aussies who play the US Celtic circuit. Three dudes who play, variously, bass, drums, and guitar - plus bagpipes and digeridoos...

grats on the gig ibram -- doing stuff alone is so much harder than being in a band. to this day, i shake like a friggin leaf if i have to play without anyone backing me up.

If I ever have my B-flat Clarinet recorked, we might have a heck of a jam there.

Or an accordion, of all things!

Flint, I might have heard Brother among others at the Highland Games at Pleasanton, CA. Quite a few years back though. There are a lot of electro-Celt-folkie groups with a piper and I'll listen to about any of them. There are a lot of pipe tunes that would sound very well wrung through a lead guitar, IMHO. I should learn guitar and put this before the public.

Back in the day there was an electro-Celtofolk outfit in your general neck of the woods called Celtic Stone. They seem to have lasted 1980-86, and I heard them at the SCA's Twenty Year Celebration on the Texas Renfair grounds outside of Houston. There's a charming history here.

Gig on the 21st... with a band, this time!

We're gonna do The Kids Aren't Alright (offspring) and Blitzkreig Bob (do I even need to say?), plus another song to two tbd.

@Urbane Guerrilla: I'm taking my baby to Celtic Heritage for her one-month birthday!

WHAT?!? You want to get dismissed early or something??

Nice reference. But seriously, we'll mostly be walking around to the booths of various people we know(showing her off!) as opposed to disturbing the musical acts with baby interference. Although, she does nicely during the day, in her little canvas baby swing that I carry her around in.

And, of course, if she gets fussy, mama can stick a boob in her mouth.

Just as long as she hides in the porta john where she belongs.;)

That looks like a nice festival. Ours are usually smaller here, although you are in Texas.

You should see North Texas Irish Festival or the Highland Games!

One of the local radio personalities on station KVEN Ventura is going to take a stab at a local upcoming Highland Games. I think he's praying he won't rupture himself tossing the caber. Novice class, I gather, circa eighty-five pounds @ fourteen feet. The more advanced strong-guys-in-kilts generally compete at over a hundred pounds of log. Highland Games athletes are generalists; everyone enters every event at the games, which list may vary.

Little baby girl attended her first Trinity River Whalers show from outside of the belly.

Alright, the band is GO for the gig next saturday. The Kids Arent Alright, Blitzkreig Bop, On Mercury (RHCP) and Immigrant Song (Zep, duh).

Aren't you doing See Spammer?