Music on Main with the Celtic Band

The town of Henderson hosts its "Music On Main" performance series every summer, and the Celtic Band and I love playing there. It's a fun atmosphere, always a great crowd and they let me heckle them mercilessly about dancing when we play jigs (which they never do, but that doesn't stop me).

The stage is a paved area outside Toody's Cafe.

Sam The Drummer takes a break. Sorry girls, he's married. 

In fact, his lovely wife Jess took all these photos for us.

Martha set the night a-flame with those blisteringly fast jigs she played.

We're a multi-generational band now, as Martha's new little grandchild

was born just a few days before we performed 

(she's promised to bring up the child to learn Irish whistles).

Marti drove down from the cabin to play with us.

She just became a grandmother, too!

I'm looking forward to a new little fiddler joining the band.

And there I am, against a backdrop of cars lined up

to hear us and get ice cream at Toody's.

(I got some for the way home!)

Well, they may not have danced, but I do believe

I saw some toes tapping in the audience...

It was a fun band reunion after not seeing each other since St. Patrick's Day. We're looking forward to performing at the new Riverfront Park in Mankato in July, perhaps with a couple of new pieces I've been working on.