Sly Dog - Madtown

Two Fall Concerts - Celtic

2009-09-04T10:53:00.000-07:00

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The Celtic Music Association of Madison and Sly Dog present...

Paddy Keenan & Patsy O'Brien

Uilleann Pipes and Guitar & Song

Friday, November 6th, 2009

at Robin & Will's

Paddy Keenan is perhaps the best-known Uilleann Piper in the world. Generally acknowledged as the most accomplished Uilleann Piper performing today, Paddy is certainly one of the most brilliant musicians of his generation. He can rightfully claim his place alongside such open-style legends as pipers John Cash and Johnny Doran. He was a founding member of The Bothy Band, which was one of the greatest Irish Traditional Groups in the 1970s. The Bothy Band forever changed the face of Irish traditional music, merging a driving rhythm section with traditional Irish tunes in ways that had never been heard before. Paddy was one of the band's founding members, and his virtuosity on the pipes combined with the ferocity of his playing made him, in the opinion of many, its driving force. Bothy Band-mate Donal Lunny once described Paddy as "the Jimi Hendrix of the pipes"; more recently, due to his genius for improvisation and counter-melody, he has been compared to jazz great John Coltrane.
"In Irish music there are legends and legends and then there's Paddy Keenan."

Sound samples at Amazon "Long Grazing Acre"

A lengthy biography of Paddy Keenan

Friday, Nov 6th, 7:30 pm

At Will & Robin's

205 N Blackhawk Ave, Madison, WI 238-6932, Map

Contribution $12 and a dessert potluck

Bring either a dessert or an evening snack, This is not a requirement. Most importantly come, with or without.

Consider warm slippers or socks. Shoes off at the door.

Reservations: IrishBox42@charter.nospam (replacing nospam with net)

or (608) 238-6932. Payment at the door when you arrive. Reservations help us plan seating and to consider additional promotion.

Where is 205 N. Blackhawk Ave?

We are located near Hilldale. If one takes University Ave. west, pass Whole Foods and turn left at the Shell station onto Blackhawk Ave. A few blocks south after a stop sign, you will find us in the 4th house on the left. Our Blackhawk Ave. phone is (608) 238-6932.

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Patrick Ball

"Celtic Harp and Story"

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

at Robin & Will's

Patrick Ball is one of the premier Celtic harp players in the world and a captivating spoken word artist. In playing the ancient, legendary brass-strung harp of Ireland with its crystalline, bell-like voice, and in performing marvelous tales of wit and enchantment, he not only brings new life to two cherished traditions, but blends them in concert to create "a richly theatrical and hauntingly beautiful performance."

Here's Patrick Ball's link: Patrick Ball

Patrick Ball, Saturday, Dec 5th, 7:30 pm

At Will & Robin's

205 N Blackhawk Ave, Madison, WI 238-6932, Map

Contribution $15 and a dessert potluck

Bring either a dessert or an evening snack, This is not a requirement. Most importantly come, with or without.

Consider warm slippers or socks. Shoes off at the door.

Reservations: IrishBox42@charter.nospam (replacing nospam with net)

or (608) 238-6932. Payment at the door when you arrive. Reservations help us plan seating and to consider additional promotion.

Where is 205 N. Blackhawk Ave?

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Future Events

Jim Malcolm returns to Sly Dog, Saturday, March 2oth, 2010.

Previous Sly Dog Concerts

2009-05-01T11:00:00.000-07:00

Celtic Concerts in association with CMA and Darl Ridgely

The Heatons, Matt & Shannon, Friday, May 8th, 2009 (CMA)

Celtic Flute and singer/songwriter duo

Jim Malcolm, March 23rd, 2009 (Darl & Mary Ridgely)

Scottish singer/songwriter

Robin Bullock, March 20th, 2009 (Darl Ridgely)

Guitar, cittern, & mandolin (almost Celtic)

Chulrua with Patrick Ourceau, February 7th, 2009 (CMA)

Irish traditional music

Len Graham, April 11th, 2008 (CMA)

Traditional Singer and Storyteller with Brian Hart

Jim Malcolm, March 6th, 2008 (Darl & Mary Ridgely)
Scottish Singer/Songwriter, former member of "Old Blind Dogs."
Chulrua, Nov 1st, 2007 (CMA)
Irish Traditional Music House Concert with Paddy O'Brien, button accordion; Dale Russ, fiddle (sitting in for Patrick Ourceau;) Pat Egan, guitar & vocals. Paddy O'Brien has recorded with Daithi Sproule and Tim Britton, both of whom have performed at our home.
Daithi Sproule, Nov 4th, 2006 (CMA)
Vocal and Guitar and a Celtic Guitar Workshop
Member of Altan, Trian, & Fingal
Tim Britton, May 19, 2006 (CMA)
Uilleann Pipes

Singer Songwriters
Jack Williams & Ronnie Cox, March 18, 2007
Cindy Kallet & Grey Larsen, Sept 15th, 2006
Erika Luckett, April 5, 2006
Don Conoscenti, Feb 3, 2006
Denice Franke, Sept 6th, 2005
Erika Luckett, August 19th, 2005
Dreamsicles, June 10th, 2005
Jack Williams, April 22, 2005

Old Timey Musicians
Sticky Fingers, Nov 11th 2005

Classical
Trevor Stevenson, Harpsichord
Trevor Stevenson & Stacy Pelinka, Harpsichord & Flute, Dec 13, 2002

Poetry-Jazz

Lake Effect Poets with John Chapman & Becca Grant, Sept 25th, 2009

Useful Links
Celticmadison.org (CMA)

Madison Folk Music Society

Three Fall Concerts

2009-04-19T08:08:00.000-07:00

Lake Effect Poets with
Jazz Musicians, John Chapman & Becca Grant
Friday, September 25th, 2009
at Robin & Will's (Information Below)

Paddy Keenan & John Walsh
Uilleann Pipes and Guitar
Friday, November 6th, 2009
at Robin & Will's (Information Further Below)

Patrick Ball
"Celtic Harp and Story"
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
at Robin & Will's (Information Further Below)

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An Evening of Poetry and Jazz

The Lake Effect Poets with John Chapman and Becca Grant

John Chapman, jazz bassist, grew up in Madison, WI and is a freelance bassist in Phoenix, AZ, and adjunct faculty member at Phoenix College. He studied music at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and Arizona State University and has performed extensively with jazz pianist Les Czimber in Sedona, jazz vocalist Dennis Rowland and the Jazz Experience, Moseyhorse, and the John Vold-John Chapman Duo.in Phoenix. Moseyhorse’s original jazz compositions are now available on CD. Becca Grant will join him on piano.

John Chapman at MySpace and his band CD with Moseyhorse.

Robin Chapman is the author of six books of poetry, including The Way In and Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos (with J.C. Sprott’s fractals), both winners of the Posner Poetry Award; The Dreamer Who Counted the Dead, winner of a WLA Outstanding Poetry Book Award, Smoke and Strong Whiskey, and Abundance, winner of the Cider Press Editors’ Award, and five chapbooks, including The Only Everglades in the World (Parallel Press). She co-edited the anthology On Retirement: 75 Poems (Univ. of Iowa Press), with Judith Strasser. A recipient of three Wisconsin Arts Board Grants, including a 2007 Literary Arts Fellowship, her poems have appeared in The American Scholar, Poetry, OnEarth, and The Southern Review, among others.

Anne-Marie Cusac is the author of the poetry books, Silkie (MMM Press, 2007), winner of the MMM Press poetry book prize, and the Wisconsin Library Associa-

tion award; and The Mean Days (Tia Chucha, 2001), which won recognition from both the Wisconsin Library Association and the Council for Wisconsin Writers. An Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Communication at Roosevelt University, where she heads the Journalism Program, Cusac is also a George Polk Award-winning journalist and worked as an editor and investigative reporter for The Progressive magazine for ten years. She is currently a member of the blog team for The Huffington Post. Her nonfiction book, Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America, was published by Yale University Press in 2009.

Susan Elbe is the author of Eden in the Rearview Mirror (Word Press) which received Honorable Mention for the Posner Book-Length Poetry Award, and a chapbook, Light Made from Nothing (Parallel Press). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals, including Ascent, Blackbird, Diode, MARGIE, North American Review, Ocho, and Salt Hill. Her work has also been widely anthologized, including in A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-Five Years of Women's Poetry (Calyx Books), On Retirement: 75 Poems (University of Iowa Press), and Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath (The Backwaters Press). Among her awards are fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Prize. Her web site is www.susanelbe.com; she currently works as a webmaster.

Catherine Jagoe holds a PhD in Spanish literature from the University of Cambridge, England and is a former Associate Professor of Spanish at the UW-Madison. Poems from her chapbook, Casting Off (Parallel Press, 2007), have been featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer’s Almanac and on the website Poetry Daily. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Rattle, Kalliope, Wisconsin Academy Review, Poem, Red Wheelbarrow, Isle, Ninth Letter, diode and other journals. Her books include translations of a novel from Spain, That Bringas Woman (Everyman, 1996) and another from Argentina, My Name Is Light (Bloomsbury, 2003). She works as a translator in Madison, Wisconsin, and recently finished translating a scientist's memoir about the Arctic from Catalan to English

Sara Parrell was awarded first prize in the 2008 Poetry Center of Chicago’s Juried Reading; Dancing Girl Press published poems from her winning manuscript in an accompanying chapbook. She won second place in the Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine’s 2007 poetry contest and her work has been published in the Lake Wingra Morning anthology, Nocturne (a collaboration with photographer and musician Thomas Ferrella), the Wisconsin Academy Review and other journals. As a pediatric nurse she has practiced and taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with multiple publications in her field. More recently, she works with children in the public schools and designs the professional staff development program for nurses. Sara also leads writing workshops including “Writing and Meditation”, and “Writing as a Way of Healing”. She lives with her husband Grayson Kampschroer in Madison, Wisconsin

The late Judith Strasser, who was a member of the Lake Effect Poets and author of two published collections of poetry, Sand Island Succession: Poems of the Apostle Islands, and The Reason/Unreason Project, winner of the Lewis-Clark Expedition award, left a last poetry manuscript, Limited Warranty, that is now available on her website www.judithstrasser.com for downloading as a PDF or reading online. She also wrote the memoir Black Eye: Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life and the non-fiction book Facing Fear: Cancer and Politics, Courage and Hope

Alison Townsend is the author of two collections of poetry, The Blue Dress (White Pine Press), and Persephone in America (Southern Illinois University Press), which won the Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition and was published in spring 2009. She also has two limited edition chapbooks, And Still the Music (Flume Press) and What the Body Knows (Parallel Press). Her work appears in many literary journals and anthologies and she has won awards and fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others. She teaches English, Creative Writing and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and lives on four acres of prairie and oak savanna in the farm country outside Madison.

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Friday, Sept 25th, 7:00 pm

At Will & Robin's

205 N Blackhawk Ave, Madison, WI 238-6932, Map

No Charge, Dessert potluck optional. Most importantly come, with or without.

Consider warm slippers or socks. Shoes off at the door.

Reservations: IrishBox42@charter.nospam (replacing nospam with net)

or (608) 238-6932. Reservations help us plan seating and to consider additional promotion.

Where is 205 N. Blackhawk Ave?

2009-04-18T06:23:00.000-07:00

Celtic Music Association of Madison and

Sly Dog - Madtown

present in home concert

Friday, May 8th, 7:30 pm

The Heatons

Matt Heaton: Guitar, Bouzouki, Vocals
Shannon Heaton: Flute, Whistle, Bodhran, Vocals

Matt and Shannon Heaton are a wonderful Celtic duo who reside in the Boston area. They play and sing traditional Irish music, as well as some of their own, original compositions. Their original compositions tell timeless tales, while their renditions of centuries-old songs feel modern. They access real stories, real emotions, and each show is unique.

Their traditional music backgrounds are conventional enough, but once you scratch the simple traditional music pedigree you find something else—a unique personality and vibe that could only come from these two.

Matt and Shannon have been performing together for over a decade with a variety of groups, including critically-acclaimed Irish band Siucra (which they formed with Beth Leachman during their three-year “sabbatical” in Boulder, CO), tangeuros Orquesta Atipica, as well as traditional luminaries Aoife Clancy, Robbie O’Connell, and Scottish gem Emily Smith.

Join us for an unforgettable evening of Celtic music with Shannon and Matt Heaton in the intimate atmosphere of our home.

Matt and Shannon will also be at Milwaukee's ICHC, Wednesday, May 6th and Gays Mills, Saturday, May 9th. Thanks to the ICHC for this BIO.

Information link with sound samples here: The Heatons

Friday, May 8th, 7:30 pm

At Will & Robin's

205 N Blackhawk Ave, Madison, WI 238-6932, Map

Contribution $12 and a dessert potluck

Bring either a dessert or an evening snack, This is not a requirement. Most importantly come, with or without.

Consider warm slippers or socks. Shoes off at the door.

Reservations: IrishBox42@charter.nospam (replacing nospam with net)

or (608) 238-6932. Payment at the door when you arrive. Reservations help us plan seating and to consider additional promotion.

Where is 205 N. Blackhawk Ave?

Upcoming Celtic/Sly Dog concert at Robin & Will's

Patrick Ball, Saturday, Dec 5th, 2009 7:30 pm

Celtic harp and spoken word

2009-03-22T10:29:00.001-07:00

Darl & Mary Ridgely

with SlyDog -Madtown

present the return of

Scottish Singer / Songwriter

Monday, March 23rd, 7:00 p.m.

Jim Malcolm

Scottish Singer / Songwriter

Including the songs of Robert Burns

Information link with sound samples here: Jim Malcolm

Monday, March 23rd 7:00 p.m.

at Robin & Will's home

205 N Blackhawk Ave. (608)238-6932, Map

Contribution $10.00

Dessert potluck - A dessert potluck (or evening snack) will not be discouraged.

Most importantly come, with or without a dessert.

Consider warm socks or slippers, shoes off at the door

Reservations: IrishBox42@Charter.nospam (replacing nospam with net) or (608) 238-6932. Payment at the door when you arrive. Reservations are helpful to plan seating and to consider additional promotion.

2009-03-01T02:00:00.000-08:00

Darl & Mary Ridgely

with SlyDog -Madtown

present

Composer and multi-instrumentalist

Friday, March 20th, 7:30 p.m.

Robin Bullock

Master of guitar, cittern, and mandolin

Founder of Helicon, multi-award recipient

Information link with sound samples here: Robin Bullock

Friday, March 20th, 2009, 7:30 p.m.

At Gene Becker & Kate Wade's home

5517 Comanche Way, Madison (608) 455-1175, Map

Contribution $15 and a dessert potluck

Bring either a dessert or an evening snack. This is not a requirement

Consider warm socks or slippers. Shoes are left at the door.

Reservations: Darl.tornjacket@gmail.com or (608) 455-1175. Payment at the door when you arrive. Reservations are helpful to plan seating and to consider additional promotion.

2009-01-01T03:05:00.000-08:00

Celtic Music Association of Madison and Slydog-Madtown
Present

Irish Traditional Music

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Chulrua

With Paddy O'Brien - button accordion, Pat Egan - guitar & vocals, Patrick Ourceau - fiddle

We are excited about their return for a second Chulrua concert with the addition of Toronto fiddler, Patrick Ourceau.

Information link and sound samples here: Chulrua

Saturday, February 7th, 2009 7:30 p.m.
At Will & Robin's
205 N Blackhawk Ave, Madison, WI 238-6932 Map

Contribution $15 and a dessert potluck
Bring either a dessert or evening snack. This is not a requirement. Consider warm socks or slippers. Shoes, off at the door.

Reservations: irishbox42@charter.nospam (replacing nospam with net)
or (608) 238-6932. Payment at the door when you arrive. Reservations help us plan seating and to consider additional promotion.

Where is 205 N. Blackhawk Ave?

We are located near Hilldale. If one takes University Ave. west, pass Whole Foods and turn left at the Shell station onto Blackhawk. A few blocks south and after a stop sign, you will find us in the 4th house on the left. Our Blackhawk Ave. phone is (608) 238-6932.