A chairde Gael!

How are ye all in Fuchsialand?
We hope this finds you well and warm wherever you are.  It has been quiet over the last few months in Fuchsialand but the work has not stopped one bit. After refinancing the State budget and looking to the IMF we have been able to put out a Newsletter to the world once more.

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
FUCHSIA SUMMER TOUR
NEW ALBUM ON THE BURNER!
PHOTOS FOR ALBUM COVER
CÉILÍ BAND COMPETITION!!
NEW FUCHSIA T-SHIRT
HAVE YOU HEARD OF CAPTAIN MACKEY?
IRISH WORD USED IN THE ENGLISH TONGUE

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
There has been a reshuffle in the cabinet and some of the Ministerial posts have been combined while all cabinet members have lost retyrement benefits
due to lack of Revenue expected from the States Sock market, causes for this have been confirmed to be Flip flopping and climate change.
The new posts are as follows

Heavy D– Taoiseach

Brian McGillicuddy - Minister for the Arts, Lotto and The Fishes.
“A wise man once told me that coming together is a beginning,  keeping together is progress and working together is success.... No one can whistle a symphony.
It takes an orchestra to play it.... Go Team Fuchsia !!!”

Eoin D. Verling – Minister for Telecommunications, A.I. and I.T. with special powers of State confined to Broadband promotion and extension.

Micheal Heffernan – Minister for Education, Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security.
“Lets us now move forward as a cohesive team.  Promoting the Fuchsia as a symbol of hope, love and peace is the new way out of darkness into light.
I believe in the power of the Fuchsia.”

Máirtín de Cógáin – Minister for the Environment, Health and Safety and Acting Czar to the Auto Industry.

Bob Dylan has been contacted for Tánaiste.

FUCHSIA SUMMER TOUR
We filling in the dates of our coming USA tour this June.
Places and dates so far so good...
May 30th Oshkosh Irish Fest, WI  www.oshkoshirishfest.com/
June 11th Deutsches Haus, New Orleans, LA www.deutscheshaus.orG
June 12th Studio Joe, 600 Autumn Street, Little Rock, AR
June 13th Celtic Crossings, Memphis TN (support by Elvis) www.celticcrossingmemphis.com/
June 16th-17th Gala Concert Jefferson City, MO (Tickets on sale at Paddy Malone’s)
June 20th-21st Fort Collins Irish Fest, CO www. fortcollinsirishfestival.com
More dates to follow

NEW ALBUM ON THE BURNER!
Over the past three years we have been working, thinking, procrastinating on a new CD and this month it all got started. The working title at the moment for the album is, “Nearly there lads”
All will be revealed soon. Let’s all hope that it will be ready for the Summer US tour.

PHOTOS FOR ALBUM COVER
We are currently working feverishly on a new album cover and would like your involvement. If you have any good and good quality band photos, photos of one band member or some are also excepted, not all have to be of performance. Send all your entries to Photos@thefuchsiaband.com
A few will be chosen for the cover and each photographer of a winner photo will be given a free CD.  

CÉILÍ BAND COMPETITION!!
This May The Cork County Céilí Band Competition is destined to be hard hitting and Riot Police will be on hand as the results are to be delivered. A Céilí band must consist of a piano player or drum or both. Other acceptable instruments are: flute, tin whistle, fiddle, viola, cello, double bass, all accordions/melodeons, uileann pipes, harmonica, bass, snare and cymbal drums, concertina, banjo, piano, saxophone, clarinet, oboe and trumpet. Bands are expected to be evenly balanced and blended in their instrumentation. To be eligible to compete a céilí band must have a minimum of 8 members and a maximum of 10.
Our own Eoin and Brian will be competing in part with the Ballincollig Comhaltas Branch while Carrigaline’s Michael Heffernan will go head to head, against the duo, joining Douglas Comhaltas......the day or reckoning is May 10th. Watch this space.

NEW FUCHSIA T-SHIRT
We are looking for ideas for a new Fuchsia Shirt. For those of you who were good enough to get one of the previous editions what would you like as the new one? Colour or color? Shape? Design? Wording? If you have been biting at the bit for years to tell us what it is you have been thinking about then here is your chance.
Email Brian@thefuchsiaband.com with your suggestions.

HAVE YOU HEARD OF CAPTAIN MACKEY?
For some of the lucky following, mostly in America, the sight of Máirtín paired up with the Legendary ‘Voice of Cork’ Jimmy Crowley playing an secret venues here and there over the past two years. They are now collectively known as, wait for it....Captain Mackey’s Goatskin and Stringband. All the details of there adventures are posted on www.captainmackey.com If you are a keen listener to Blarney on the Air www.blarneyontheair.com or Celtic Connections Radio www.celticconnectionsradio.org shows you would have heard they have a CD out NOW!! Go check it out at www.cdbaby.com/cmgas be there first to have it in your ears. For the biggest of gigs they have teamed up with two amazing musicians Don Penzien and Valerie Plested. Here are the dates for the coming few months.
Tuesday, April 28th @ The Paul and Shela Wellstone Center in St. Paul, MN
Máirtín and Jimmy are also doing workshops in the evening
Tuition: is $10.00 and under please pre-register with
The Center For Irish Music.  http://centerforirishmusic.org
 Wednesday, April 29 @ Kieran's Irish Pub, Minneapolis, MN
8pm.  $7 cover @ the door.
Thursday, April 30th a private house concert in La Crosse, WI
Aug 14th -16th Milwaukee IrishFest and Milwaukee State Fair
Sept 11th -13th CelticFest, Jackson, MS
Sept 18th – 20th Michigan Irish Fest, Muskegon, MI
Oct 24th -25th NELA, West Monroe, LA
2010
Feb 6th - 13th The 19th Annual Irish Festival Cruise, (Máirtín is very excited about this one)
For bookings go to www.irishtours.com
More dates to follow.

IRISH WORD USED IN THE ENGLISH TONGUE
Leprechaun
elf, sprite (from leipreachán, from lu 'small' and corp 'body') An alternate source is leath bhrogán, "half-shoer", as the creature is often said to be a shoemaker by profession.

Great to be in touch again!

More news to follow real soon, or as soon as the injection from the IMF clears.

Bhur gcairde

Máirtín, Brian, Eoin, Mick
The Fuchsia Band

www.thefuchsiaband.com
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