My oldest and dearest Bellingham friend and musical mate! Getting ready for our set in the serenade tent at the Jamboree...

Five standouts of the Bellingham music community who share a love of Irish music, and more importantly, of how the play it together:

Mishon Kirkland - vocals Jan Peters - vocals, harmonicas, bouzouki Zach Bouman - vocals, mandolins Margaret Inez Driscoll - fiddle David Pender Lofgren - Bodhrán https://gallowglassmusic.squarespace.com/

$5-$15 Door

Come one come all! This is an open session of Irish tunes as played by a community of devoted players from very advanced to just starting out. All ages, all levels - just have to pick up on the etiquette if you're a beginner. It's all about listening, learning, practicing at home, and not playing loudly until you know what you're doing!

Pint & Dale play fantastic songs of the raging sea with haunting harmonies, driving hurdy gurdy, bouzouki, and guitar, and share a great wealth of knowledge about the history of these amazing songs.

They play world folk festivals around the the states and the globe: http://www.pintndale.com/Pint_and_Dale-Music_of_the_Sea/index.html

$5-$15 Door

Come one come all! This is an open session of Irish tunes as played by a community of devoted players from very advanced to just starting out. All ages, all levels - just have to pick up on the etiquette if you're a beginner. It's all about listening, learning, practicing at home, and not playing loudly until you know what you're doing!

We've found a new monthly home at the Stone's Throw Brewery in Fairhaven, Bellingham. Each month we settle in and play for a couple of hours to an attentive and appreciative room, and in the summer months we're outside in the patio.

Great drink, great folks, great vibes at Stone's Throw.

Colm hails from Dublin, Ireland, lives in Seattle, plays guitar for people all around the world and sings beautifully. He works with Colleen Raney, Jocelyn Pettit, and many other luminaries of the traditional music world circuit.

Here's a taste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdPgZ30z2zU

$5-$15 Door

Come one come all! This is an open session of Irish tunes as played by a community of devoted players from very advanced to just starting out. All ages, all levels - just have to pick up on the etiquette if you're a beginner. It's all about listening, learning, practicing at home, and not playing loudly until you know what you're doing!

We'll be in the new outside venue at Aslan Depot and we can hardly wait to play there. We'll lay down rockin' jigs and reels and sing our takes on some Irish songs not oft heard.

Featuring: Margaret Inez Driscoll on fiddle Zach Bauman on mandolin, bouzouki, and vocals Jan Peters on harmonicas, bouzouki, and vocals David Pender Lofgren on Bodhrán (Irish frame drum)

https://gallowglassmusic.squarespace.com/

Love playing with this outfit on the ole cowboys songs and listening to them do Argentinian Tangos!

Flattery plays Irish & Folk Mondays:

A very fun group of friends who play fantastic tunes and sing beautiful songs with gorgeous harmonies. They light lip the house, or beer garden in this case!

Come one come all! This is an open session of Irish tunes as played by a community of devoted players from very advanced to just starting out. All ages, all levels - just have to pick up on the etiquette if you're a beginner. It's all about listening, learning, practicing at home, and not playing loudly until you know what you're doing!

Dale Russ Plays Irish & Folk Mondays!

This is about the 6th time Dale has come up to play for us. A true and internationally recognized ambassador of the Irish Fiddle.

Read more here:

http://www.fiddle.com/articles.page?articleid=19119&Index=9

$10-$20 Door

Come one come all! This is an open session of Irish tunes as played by a community of devoted players from very advanced to just starting out. All ages, all levels - just have to pick up on the etiquette if you're a beginner. It's all about listening, learning, practicing at home, and not playing loudly until you know what you're doing!

I get to play a whole hecka lotta harmonica with these fine and fun folks, and you just gotta hear my dear friend Lindsay Poynter sing.... it's super sweet. Join Ted O'Connell, Lyndsay and myself for the sharing of some mighty wonderful songs.

Irish & Folk Mondays Presents Merriweather!

This trio is so good they make old-time American fiddle music not just great fun to dance to but also a truly fantastic treat for the ears.

Clyde Curly - Fiddle Mike Haberman - Mandolin Sam Vogt - Guitar

$5-15 Door

Come one come all! This is an open session of Irish tunes as played by a community of devoted players from very advanced to just starting out. All ages, all levels - just have to pick up on the etiquette if you're a beginner. It's all about listening, learning, practicing at home, and not playing loudly until you know what you're doing!

It's that time of year again and I get to play some of the Boundary Bay Brewery Happy Hour sets with my good friend Robert Sarazin Blake. Hope to see you there!

We've found a new monthly home at the Stone's Throw Brewery in Fairhaven, Bellingham. Each month we settle in and play for a couple of hours to an attentive and appreciative room, and in the summer months we're outside in the patio.

Great drink, great folks, great vibes at Stone's Throw.