Midland Celtic

Word on the grapevine is that Kaya Coffee House is hosting a brand new Irish session this Friday, 7pm-9pm. Moriath will be there, so it should be to a pretty high standard of quality.  If you know Irish tunes, come out and bring your instrument; if you don’t, it will be good listening in a very pleasant environment.

Jerry and Bruce from Hoolie, plus Andy Rogers and myself.  We’re setting up as I type this.

I’ll be doing a series of blog posts on upcoming Celtic music events in our area soon. In the meantime, here’s a quick list of things a bit further afield, put together by Colleen Gavin:

Feb 24- BreakFest at The Ark with performance by Mike and Colleen Gavin and Lance Wagner
March 4- Altan at The Ark
March 7- Lunasa at The Ark 8pm
March 8- Fiddle and Guitar Workshops with Kevin Burke and Cal Scott 7pm
March 11- Kevin Burke and Cal Scott in concert at Greenwood Center 4-6pm
March 17- St. Patrick’s Day Celebration with Mick Gavin
March 24/25- Fiddle Workshops with Patrick Orceau- Kalamazoo (pls. message for more info)
April 13-15- Midwest Fleadh Cheoil – Chicago
April 16- Tannahill Weavers at The Ark

I’m starting to worry I’m going to have to clone myself just to catch half of the great things going on!

Because the new session setup is 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at the Stein Haus and 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at the Midland Brewing Company, there will occasionally be months where the 1st Tuesday is the same week as the 2nd Wednesday — and this month is one of them! As a result, by the normal schedule there should be no session this week. But we decided to have a session this week anyway! It’s Tuesday the 14th at the Stein Haus in Bay City, a Valentine’s Day session!

Here’s the inaugural installment of the new Stein Haus session.  Kathy, Jerry, Randy, Linda, Bruce, and Randy.

Bruce Alvesteffer tells us “Wanted to let everyone know that the Bay City Irish sessions will now be held at the Stein House every 1st, 3rd, and 5th (if there is one) Tuesday of the month.” The first session there will be this Tuesday, January 31st, at 7PM.

Note that this is a slightly funky change in the schedule; if the first day of the month is a Wednesday, then the 1st Tuesday is the same week as the 2nd Wednesday, meaning the Bay City and Midland sessions will happen on the same week all month. We’ll see how this goes right away, as the first double-session week will be next week.