Slainte! Only 5 days left until we kick off the legendary St. Patrick’s Day weekend here in Chicago! The weekend is sure to be lots of good fun with loads of Irish music and plenty to drink (we’re quite sure)! So, this page has been bare for quite a while, and we’re just chimin in here with a quick update to say hello.
Here’s what we were up to this weekend gettin ready for St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago: We got off to a rocky start for the usual Sunday Irish music jam session at the Crowley household! After a night of drinkin down in the city (and buckets of rain all night!), and waking up with a splittin head ache, things didn’t seem to be gettin much better on Sunday morning. You could say that the ‘luck of the Irish’ definitely didn’t seem to be with us! The phone rang around 12Noon, and it’s AJ ‘Shamus’ O’Simek ringin to let me know that there may be no Irish music this weekend for the Red Rebel County!? We were already off to a bad start (for our Friday the 13th gig!) - spooky…huh? Now, this ain’t a good omen when your next show is on Friday the 13th! Not only do we have no power at the Crowley household (the regular Irish music jam spot for Red Rebel County), but the basement was flooding (it rained cats and dogs here in Chicago on Sunday)! For F@#!s sake! What’s a band to do, we all thought? Only 5 days left before the big St. Patrick’s Day weekend of Irish music in Chicago, and we have no place to put the finishing touches on some of the Irish music classics you all have come to love and expect!? So, we pooled our thoughts about where the Irish music could go on.
Thanks to one Mr. Doug Crowley, we packed up the truck and we moved to Beverly….Hills that is; swimming pools and movie stars. Well, not really (on the swimmin pools and movie stars), but the band all headed over to Mark and Lisa’s place and fished all the gear out of the water, so that we could move the Irish music jam over to Beverly Hills to do a dress rehearsal for the South Side St. Patrick’s Day parade gig (in Doug and Mary Kay’s garage.)
All in all, it was a successful Irish music session: The band jammed out with some Irish music, the friends and family drank like champs, and after all was said and done, we are confident that we are ready to rock you for with some rock hard Irish music in Chicago this St. Patricks Day weekend!!
So, with a loud hurray, join us in the affray, we quickly have cleared the way, for the rocky road to to Chicago and St. Patrick’s Day….1, 2, 3, 4, 5! We’ll see you all this upcoming weekend…if you have any requests or ideas for Irish music in Chicago at one of the upcoming gigs, hit us up on our Myspace or Facebook pages?
Cheers….and more to come later in the week about St. Patrick’s Day weekend gigs and festivities!
Red Rebel County
