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Gigs: Well folks, summertime is upon us once again, which
can only mean one thing…Hair Of The Dog goes outside!! That’s right,
it’s time to cut loose from the pubs (for the most part) and bring
our music (and beverage of choice) to the great outdoors. As you
review our schedule for the summer, you’ll see that it is dominated
by Parks, Fairs, and Festivals…
More and more townships in our neck of the woods have been providing
free (that’s right, FREE!) music entertainment to their communities
at their parks in recent years, and we are thrilled to be able to
make stops this year in Colonie, Scotia, Bethlehem, Schodack,
Clifton Park, Glens Falls, Brunswick, and Guilderland. Pack up the
whole fam damily and come on out!
If a healthy mix of livestock and Irish music is more your thing,
you’ll find plenty of both when we make our first appearance at the
Saratoga County Fair, and our sixth appearance at the Altamont Fair
(last year Eric won a Blue Ribbon for his home-made Jamison Stew!).
We are also thrilled to be making return visits to four of our most
favorite Irish Festivals. We’ll be at the Great American Irish
Festival in July, the Hunter Mountain Irish Festival in August, and
the Hooley On The Hudson over Labor Day weekend. Our final wrap up
to our summer season just happens to be our most favorite gig of the
year, Irish 2000 at the Altamont Fair Grounds. This year marks the
10th anniversary of Irish 2000, and we are proud to say that we have
been performing there each of the past ten years. It is by far the
finest one-day Irish festival in North America. For more information
about all our gigs this summer, please go to our
Schedule page.
Best Band Award. The Albany
Times Union’s Reader’s Poll just came out, and we are so very
pleased and honored to be named “Best Local Band”. We all feel
incredibly blessed to have such great fans. Jimmy Buffett may have
the Parrot Heads, but we’ve got the Dog Heads! We have always said
that it is our audience that makes a Hair Of The Dog show so
much fun. Thanks to all our fans…you guys are awesome!!!
Destination:
Liverpool. Rick is personally sponsoring a “Magical
Mystery Tour” of famous Beatle landmarks and other British
attractions November 10-16, 2007.
 You will spend two nights in
Liverpool and three in London. The vacation includes all Beatle
Tours in both cities, a night at a London theater, round trip air
tickets from NYC, English coach transportation and guide, hotels,
breakfasts and two dinners. The space is limited for this trip of a
lifetime, so we recommend sending your deposit in as soon as
possible. Call Hammond Travel at 518-489-7280 or go to
Rick’s bio page for all the details.
Break out the suntan lotion?
Speaking of trips, we’re in the process of working on a very special
trip to be held next year during our most hollowed of holidays, St.
Patrick’s Day! Since we don’t want to jinx it, we’re going to keep
things quiet until everything is confirmed and guaranteed. Stay
tuned!
Number 9, Number 9? Production
for our 9th CD is rolling along quite well. Look for lots of new
stuff, including some great original songs. This will be our first
album with drums, and we can’t wait for you to hear it. We are
hoping to have it to you by the end of the year.
Thanks again to all our fans. We look forward to seeing you out and
about this summer!
October
Summer Wrap-Up: First of all,
we’d like to thank everyone for turning out in such great numbers to
hear us perform this past summer. We played several new places and
met a bunch of new people along the way. At the same time, it was
great to see all you loyal “Dog Heads” popping up all over! The
festival circuit was a blast, and it was all highlighted by our
final festival of the season, Irish 2000. Things went so well, that
we have been asked to be the closing act in the Guinness Tent at
next year’s Irish 2000.
This Is A Recording:
 Things
are going well in the studio as we continue the recording of our 9th
CD. Rick and Scott are doing a great job producing the CD, and we
are really pleased with what we have done so far. With any luck,
there will be a surprise guest or two on the CD as well. Stay tuned…
Dot Com: Speaking of staying
tuned, we have discovered several great Irish radio stations on the
internet, and we thought we’d share some of them with you here in
the Dog Tales. It is a great way to listen to Irish music either at
the office, or at home while you are working on the computer…
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AccuRadio. AccuRadio has a bunch of great musical genres
to choose from. For Irish music, go to
www.accuradio.com/radiocelt. Once there, you’ll be able to
choose from six different Irish music options: Traditional, Male
Artists, Female Artists, Progressive, Rock, and General Irish.
If you like what you are hearing, you can click on a copy of the
CD and it will take you to web sites like Amazon, where you can
purchase the CD.
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Live
365. Similar to AccuRadio, in that there are numerous
musical genres to choose from. For Irish music, go to
www.live365.com/stations/irishradio. From there you’ll have
a variety of irish music programs/stations to choose from. Music
ranges from trad to folk to contemporary. We listened to Off
Kilter during our last visit to the web site (those boys can
play!).
Radio, Radio: Lest we forget, if
you’re ever in our neck of the woods (Albany, New York), be sure to
tune in to the “Proud To Be Irish” radio program on Siena College FM
radio station 88.3 on Sundays from 12 to 3pm. Originally hosted by
the late Eamonn McGuirr, the program is now hosted by Eamonn’s wife,
Mary, and their daughter Marina. As Eamonn used to say, “this is
fine stuff!”
Traveling Man:
 Just
a reminder that Rick is sponsoring a trip to London and Liverpool to
visit famous Beatles landmarks and other cool British attractions.
The trip runs from November 10-16, 2007. Call Hammond Travel at
518-489-7280 or go to Rick’s bio page for
all the details.
That’s about all for now. Try to get out and enjoy the beautiful
Fall foliage and weather (unless you live in Buffalo…they appear to
have jumped straight into Winter!). We hope to raise a pint with you
down the road!!
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