A Chairde Gael!

How are ye all in Fuchsialand?
Well it is busy here in the Fuchsia Dáil, working out ambassadorial missions to America and other ventures besides. Máirtín is over there at the moment see if you can catch him when he comes to your neck of the woods.

Headlines!
WHAT ARE THE BOYOS UPTO?
SUMMER FUCHSIA DATES UPDATE
IRISH PHRASE
MÁIRTÍN AND JIMMY CROWLEY ARE ON THE ROAD AGAIN

WHAT ARE THE BOYOS UPTO?
Well ladies and gentlemen le me inform you of the very exciting news happening here altogether.

Brian has won the lottery in Ireland which was a Roll-Over Saturday and he only heard the news while he was out in Africa on a tanning mission. If you don’t know Brian can be found midweek anywhere between the shop counter, ice-cream fridge and the coffee maker attaching lilac leads to Lotto machines the working for the Irish National Lottery so his name will not appear in any papers, he claims that is was a ’Quick-Pick’ and had no insight to what the number may be. Enjoy it while it lasts Brian. Next week he intended to buy Ballincollig town.

Eoin this wintertime invented a new system to write emails from his phone. He has been working with a new phone and computers company called Banana and wrote software that lets you write emails from your phone via voice recognition and Bluetooth. This lets one ring its email from a mobile/cell phone and write the message as you are on the move. He has nearly released the matching work that lets your phone read out the mail from you own inbox too! Wow, amazing. Eoin ’the box’ Verling is now fast becoming ’the square’ Verling. With his new income he is planning to build a 4-story castle in the middle of Enniskeane and Ballineen that will look down on both towns.

Mick found out on St. Patrick’s Day that seven of his students from Bandon won world titles in Flute at the latest Festival of Festivals in Hong Kong. An unmatched feat, so much so that an tUachtarán na hÉireann Mary Patricia McAleese, has called him up to Phoenix Park for tae and biscuits. Fair play Mick. We knew you had it in you, always.

Máirtín spent most of January, February and March in the southern hemisphere and made contact with the Irish Diaspora there and has set up a Storytelling University in Matamata, New Zealand with umbrella colleges in Broom, Australia and the Island of Nacula in Fiji. This is funded by the Rainbow Projects grant scheme run by Labhras who is a distant blood relation to Máirtín’s own storytelling teacher Larry back at home. He wishes to thank all who helped him out on his travels there. He was treated like a king. Also, while visiting some of the descendents of Ireland he was offered manys a pot of riches but refused knowing it was only fools Gold.


SUMMER FUCHSIA DATES UPDATE
An update from the Fuchsia Foreign Office tells us that TFB will be at the Fort Collins Celtic Festival - the Feel Lucky Festival in Colourful Colorado August 2nd and 3rd! This will be the boys first visit to the Centennial State. Keep it in your calendars!

IRISH PHRASE
Lá na nAmadán = April Fool’s Day, spoken ’Law nuh nahmh-adawn
For more Calendar dates as Gaeilge try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_calendar

MÁIRTÍN AND JIMMY CROWLEY ARE ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Máirtín hits the road again with legendary folky Jimmy Crowley. The pair have spent the last two weeks in Dunedin, Florida cutting a new record in Full Wave Sound Studios and should have it for release before the end of the year. They are set for 20 days on the road with about 3500 miles to cover finishing as one of the headlines of the Southern Illinois Irish Festival http://www.silirishfest.org at the end of the month.
If you see them on the road wave them down and offer them a strong cup of tae and a chat!!

APRIL 7th Paddy Molone’s Pub, Jefferson City, MO
Time: 8p.m.
Address: 700 West Main St., Jefferson City, MO
Contact: 573-761-5900 Ask for Allen
Website: www.myspace.com/paddymalonespub
& www.paddymalonespub.com

APRIL 8th Eddie Delahunt’s Café &, Kansas City, MO
Time: 7.30pm sharp.
Address: 1811 45th St. off State Line on the Missouri side of life!
We had a mighty night last year, let’s hope for fine weather!
Contact: 816-753-3322 Ask for Eddie
Website: www.eddiedelahunt.com/dates.htm

APRIL 9th Saint Charles school, Gladstone, MO
Time: 1p.m.
Place: The school. For the next generation like.

APRIL 9th House Concert, St. Louis, MO
Time: 8p.m.
Place: 7101 Westmoreland Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130.
Contact: 314-863-4342 Ask for Andrew

APRIL 10th Univeristy of Missouri, St. Louis , MO
Time: 12.30pm – 1.45pm
Place: Music Building Rm 205, Univeristy of Missouri, St. Louis , MO
The Ballads of Cork
Free and Open to the Community
Contact: 314-516-7299

APRIL 11th Columbia, MO
Time: 7p.m. Followed by a Céilí called by Máirtín, music played by Jimmy and local musicians.
Place: First Christian Church, 101 N Tenth St., Columbia, MO
Contact: 573-442-2048
Website: www.moceltic.org

APRIL 12th Castletown Geaghan Pub, Belleville, IL
Time: 8.30p.m.
Place: 104 West Main Street, Belleville, IL 62220
Contact: 618-233-4800 ask for Ed
Website: www.ctgpub.com

APRIL 14th Bayou Coffee House & Café, New Orleans, LA
Time: 7pm sharp
Place: 326 N. Jefferson Pkwy, Mid City, New Orleans, LA
Contact: 504-484-7390 or Noel on 985-259-0882
Website: www.bayoucoffeehouse.com

April 15th Robinson Film Institute
Time: 6pm

April 16th Robinson Film Institute Shreveport
Time: 7pm

APRIL 17th Northeast LA CelticFest Foundation Gala with Legacy, Monroe, LA
Time: 6pm
Website: www.nelacelticfest.net

APRIL 18th Little Rock Folk Club, Little Rock, AR
Time: 7.30p.m.
Place: Thomson Hall, UUC-LR, 1818 Reservoir Rd, Little Rock, AR
Website: www.lrfolkclub.org

APRIL 20th Celtic Society Céilí & Concert, Jackson MS
Times: 1.30 to 3pm Set Dance workshop
3.30pm-5pm ~ Céilí (Máirtín will call for all!)
6pm ~ Concert
Place: 901 E. Fortification St., Jackson, MS 39202
Contact: www.celticfestms.org

APRIL 21st Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Time: 6pm
Place: 118 College Drive, Hattiesburg, MS 39406
Website: www.usm.edu/profdev_edoutreach/olli/


APRIL 22th Celtic Crossings, Memphis, TN
Time: 7p.m.
Place: 903 South Cooper, Memphis, TN 38104
Contact: 901-274-5151
Website: www.celticcrossingmemphis.com

APRIL 25th Evening Concert S. I. Irish Festival, Carbondale, IL
Tme: 8pm.
Place: McGuire’s Entertainment Centre,1620 W Main St
Contact: 618-549-3090
www.silirishfest.org

April 26th S. I. Irish Festival, Carbondale, IL
Time: see website
Place: Turley Park, West Main (State Rt. 13W) and Glenview
Contact: 618-549-3090
Website: www.silirishfest.org

All updates will be on www.mairtinmusic.com and myspace.com/mairtindecogain


We all hope ye a great St. Patrick’s week and a Happy and Holy Easter. Thank you all again for voting Grá Dá Raibh album of the year and Máirtín as songwriter of the year! See ye soon, somewhere in the Fuchsia!!!

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Hup! San Áirde. Keep warm,

Bhur gcairde

The Fuchsia Band

Ministry of Commutations Office

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