On the radio

KMSU Radio 89.7 FM was having a St. Patrick's Day party at the Jazzman Cafe in the student union at Minnesota State University, and they invited me and the girls of the Celtic Band to play (SamTheDrummer was working in the cities and couldn't make it). Amid the bustle of students and the whir of the cappuccino machines, we played Irish jigs, reels, sad songs and ballads.

That's the ever-dashing Jim Gullickson on the left,
making sure things run smoothly
and providing a play-by-play of our show.
Though I couldn't get him to dance no matter what I did.

I guess I'd forgotten to tell Marti and Martha
that we were going to play live on the air.
Oops.
But, as always, they rose to the occasion.

Then Marti raced off to her strings festival and Martha went home to her family. And I took the harp home, retreating to the little Irish cottage of my fantasies, remembering the waves pounding the Western shore, smelling the peat and the green...

And so closed the last gig of the St. Patrick's season, 2009.