Conference tallis::celt

1480.0. "Wolfstone" by MAIL1::GLENNON () Wed Jun 07 1995 11:46

    Got a live listen to a group from Scotland called Wolfstone last Friday
    evening in a pub called Sam McGuire's in the Bronx, NY. They have a few
    albums out on Green Linnet and apparently are on their second North
    American tour. The tour details I had (from the record company)
    indicated it was a short tour, only about 7/8 dates but did include
    WolfTrap in Vienna, Va over the Memorial Day weekend.
    
    Anyway, found the group to be very talented and entertaining sort of a
    rock version of the Tannahill Weavers or the Battlefield Band. I
    brought along my brother-in-law who's not Irish or Scottish and not at 
    all into Celtic music and he was also favorably impressed, likening 
    them somewhat to the American group Kansas (from the 70's) and actually 
    enjoying the bagpipe accompanyment that comprises about 40% of their 
    material. Unfortunately, the crowd was not large as this was the
    weekend after Memorial Day and Comhaltas had their Fleadh
    scheduled the following two days for the NY branch which featured
    Moving Cloud at their Saturday night ceili. 
    
    It would be nice to hear this group get some more airplay on the local 
    Celtic radio programs.
    
    Kevin