Musical performance at Maguires

Join Celtic Ties Friday Nov 5th at Maguires' Pub in Historic Senoia from 7-11. Celtic Ties will party up with flute, fiddle, guitar and whistle playing traditional Irish music and drinking traditional Irish beer. You bring your own traditional thirst and appetite along with a love of jigs, reels, hornpipes, and strathsprays and we'll get along just fine. Bring a bodhran and you can sit in with the band.

Celtic Ties is playing again at Espresso Lane on the town Square in beautiful historic Newnan, Georgia. Rusty Tate will be joining us playing guitar and mandolin. He adds depth and power to the sound and we are excited to bring it to the square this Saturday from 6:30 till 9:00PM. You bring the clapping, whistling, hollering and dancing; enjoy well brewed coffee taste fresh desserts and tip the band. It's all good.

We are then at Maguire's Pub in beautiful historic downtown Senioa Thursday the 26th. We are looking forward to this new venue. Traditional Irish music played in an Irish pub on Thirsty Thursday(buy one of the house beers and get the second at half price). This is going to be a treat. You can help us convince Maguire's they should have traditional Irish music in their pub at least once a month. Support Celtic music on Atlanta's Southside and quench your thirst with a half priced draft. Join us from 7-10 PM Thursday August 26.

Learning Creativity

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Thanks to Trudy Nan's sense of truth and an affinity to HBO programing, we have a true Irish American wake at hand. We may not see the likes of this series again. It's The Best I've seen and there is fiddle content.

Friday July 17th fiddle gig Senoia Coffee House

We boys in Celtic Ties are in the Senoia Coffee House again this Friday night July 17. They ask us back because we don't eat or drink much of their profits and we clean up after ourselves. We will play 2 sets starting at 7:00pm and going till 9:00pm. The tunes are all traditional Irish tunes over 150 years old. These tunes, having passed the test of time and good taste, help us hide the truth of our ungraceful aging and cheap hair cuts. Please come on down and join in the rowdiness. The power of the tunes lightens the work for us and can moves the audience to spontaneous dance. So don't be shy about bringing your hoop and hollars, your whistle and wallets. Your gonna want to drink the coffee, taste the dessert and tip the band.

The urge to merge

This is the latest video project I have been working on at Griffin Tech. After about a month in production, The video team here, Thomas, Charles and I finished the final corrections last week. The merge video was produced for the Commission on Colleges and was shown at their monthly meeting and then was shown to Georgia's governor-Sonny Perdue. It will be up on the Griffin Tech webpage on Monday. Fiddle content insert here (played fiddle at night and worked gigs on the weekend). I've been practicing playing over "Rythmn Changes" and hope to spend the next month struggling within the key of Bb learning to use the diminished scale over the A section of the changes

Here it is, I've had this blog up and running for just over a week and the only one who has visited the site is my wife, and she didn't post a comment. Although we have a running commentary at home. I know the content is esoteric and not aimed at any group that I would want to belong. So, why don't I just rationalize and say, "This is a test to see if I could post and play in blogagog. So welcome to the playground". I can work with that definition.

For fiddle content. I've just gotten under my hat and fingers all the tunes in a 20 song Irish set. I play with a group named "Celtic Ties". There are three of us in the group. I'm on fiddle. Hollis a multi-instrumentalist is on penny whistle, mountain Dulcimer, hammer dulcimer, concertina, banjo, and guitar. Ed plays Bodrhan and bowed psalter. We are playing coffee houses, museums, weddings, schools and retirement villas all very tame venues. No vocals yet but we will be workin' them in.