Summer 2008

Hi everybody.  Thanks for visiting our website.  This is our seventeenth year together and we're still going strong.  Our friends, families and fans have been a big part of our success and we continue to be very grateful.  Our newest CD "Donegal" has proven to be an unqualified smash.  It's getting airplay and positive reviews throughout the world.  It's nice to be based in upstate New York and yet be known far out of the region.  Here in the northeast, folks always seem to complain that we don't get a spring.  This has been one of the best springs that any of us can remember.  Hopefully the great weather will hold up throughout the summer and into the fall.

Hair Of The Dog will be appearing at many festivals this summer.  They include The Chicago Gaelic Park Irish Festival, The Greater Hartford Irish Festival, The Great American Irish Festival in Central N.Y., The Cortland Irish Festival, The Capital District Scottish Games, The Danbury CT Irish Festival and The Irish 2000 Music And Arts Festival in Altamont, NY.  We will also be performing at numerous town concerts, clubs, parties and weddings. In all, close to fifty appearances this summer!

After the summer, we'll be returning to The Parting Glass, our home base in Saratoga Springs, NY.  The Parting Glass is not only a fine music venue, but it's also a great place to eat.  And they have the awards to prove it.  In February, The Parting Glass won the award for "Best Chowder off-Broadway" and in April, they won two awards; one each for main dish and dessert in the second annual Saratoga Mardi Gras Festival.  About twenty restaurants participated and The Parting Glass received close to six hundred votes.  Kudos to Linda DiBlasio, Susan Thomas, Kathy Hearn and chef Aaron Mondore.  The Mardi Gras Festival raised funds to help the rebuilding efforts in Waveland, Mississippi.  And don't forget, Hair Of THe Dog will be in residence the entire month of January, 2009 for our second annual "Hair-A-Thon".

And finally, it's with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of our friend Joe Dolan.  Joe was a leader in The Capital District Irish American community for as long as we can remember.  Born in Albany in 1935, Joe graduated from Siena College and UAlbany before joining the Navy and serving in The Korean War.  After the war, he returned home where he was active in county and state government.  But Irish Culture was Joe's true passion.  Joe's legacy will be his work with The Irish American Heritage Museum in East Durham, NY.  Dolan was a driving force behind many of the museum's major exhibits, including a photo exhibit that in 2006 made the museum the first American museum to exhibit at the national library in Dublin.  We just saw Joe this past March at The Irish American Legislators Dinner at The Albany AOH and he was in fine spirits.  We will all miss him very much.

Once again thanks for your support.  Please be sure to check out our schedule page.  We hope to see you all this summer.

Rick and The Boys

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