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08/11/2026

Ok, totally not my fault, but it turns out that time flows ever forward whether I’m paying attention or not. It seems we snuck in an early Saturday on the 1st, so 3rd Saturday is coming right up! So, don't go to the Old 121 like I was planning for the 2nd Sat session, this is the 3rd Sat session at Fiction Beer company!

Let’s do a jig this week. The Blackthorn Stick is a great tune and once you get the main twist, it becomes pretty easy to play. Also called the Coach Road to Sligo, you can play it with Tar Road to Sligo and Trip to Sligo for a Sligorific set! So many ways to get to Sligo, but only a single Road to Lisdoonvarna… Dots here if you need https://thesession.org/tunes/702/702

Teaching the tune starts at 6:30pm, fast session to follow around 7:30, hope to see y’all there!

Picture of a road to Sligo to get you in the right mindset.

07/17/2026

Coming right up! Join us tomorrow at the Fiction Beer Company for a learning and then open session!

We'll be learning Old Grey Cat at 6:30 and then speeding things up at 7:30.

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07/14/2026

Wow! A whole 6 days notice! I have time to even give a reminder in a bit. But its been a heck of a week. I’ll just out and say it, as such things happen, but my Dad had a heart attack and I was down with him in Texas helping him recover, which he did, and is now doing well. Certainly not what I was planning on doing the past few weeks but glad things are back on track.

Looking forward to playing tunes with people, as it’s been a minute for me. So come out to Fiction Beer this Saturday and help me shake off that rust!

We will be learning Old Grey Cat. I think it’s technically a hornpipe? But it’s listed as a reel on the Session. Also I know it’s played at Contra Dances a lot. Some dots for ya!

https://thesession.org/tunes/3420/16464

Also, a helpful practice video with my helpful cat. Always helping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX_9oFAqfHo

06/19/2026

So much. Always so much. But it's important to take a moment and play some tunes! So that's what I'll be doing this Saturday, which is the 3rd saturday of the month, and I totally didn't forget that because things are insane and only in a panic at the last minute realize I hadn't sent out any emails or notifications for the event that I totally didn't make like 3 minutes ago!

Come learn new tunes! Drink cold beer! Have some Craic!

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05/13/2026

Ok, so yeah, the glorious dream of being on top of these with magic automation is gone. You’re regularly scheduled “if I can remember” standard updates are back! Yay consistency! I’d hate to mess up all your expectations…

Suffice to say, May is a crazy month. My youngest graduates Highschool this Saturday, so John Hammer has graciously offered to lead the slow session through Calliope House (good jig!) and I’ll try to show up for a bit and will be around but will be running about for family stuff as well. Please do come out and play with us though!

Slow session at 6:30pm, regular at 7:30pm, and since I haven’t been able to get any firm commitments from a band for June, we’ll just plan regular summer sessions for the rest of the time. I am doing a concert series at The Bug Theater on June 17th and July 15th that I’ve tentatively titled “HumpFest” because it’s on Wednesdays, but that’s more Ren Faire themed. I’ll keep you posted regardless, and yeah, that’s probably all I should be taking on right now.

Thank you all for supporting live music, coming out to play, and tolerating my randomness in newsletters!

04/08/2026

2 Weeks out! I'm almost ahead of things! Join us for Denver Celtic Night at Fiction Beer Company (fictionbeer.com), 6532 E. Colfax Ave, Denver CO.

So I just spent 4 hours trying to get this stuff automated, and I'm almost there! It saves me like 10 minutes every time! This means that it will only be... Wait a sec... Uh, well, I'm sure it's worth it. Probably. In anycase, maybe next month I'll even send this out like on the FIRST of the month. So amaze! And now it turns out all the stuff I made is completely borked so I'm redoing it all manually. Weee! Maybe I should just practice learning new tunes instead. YES THAT IS THE ANSWER!

But there's other news! 2nd Saturday's have a new session at Old 121 Brewery in Lakewood! That's way to the west! I'll try to get more details on that but if Fiction is too far East for ya, this might be a nice alternative. That's THIS Saturday. In anycase, Slow session starts at 6:30 in 2 weeks (not this weekend, dunno what the Old 121 session is geared towards, but may want to check it out and discover). Pretty sure it's this location: https://www.old121brewhouse.com/oak-st-lakewood-co. Oh god, there are 2 locations right next to each other. I'll figure that out and send another update for sure.

In anycase, Uh, yeah. Lets learn, a barndance! Gypsy Princess is a fun one and pretty straight forward. Yeah! Lets do that. I’ll try to remember to post links to dots, but for now, here’s a great recording to listen to for it: https://youtu.be/H0Bfgl7CBic?si=6n6RtVn88HbXhoN-

Regular session at 7:30 per usual, so, stick around! We’ll do tunes! We’ll do songs! We’ll do socialization and generally have some great craic!

Here's a photo from last month's concert with Dal Riada. It was great! You should come to the next one! I have to like get on a plane in 2 hours and probably shouldn't have rushed this!

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7101 East Colfax Avenue
Denver, CO
80220

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