The Onlies are going to be playing a short concert as part of a great old-time festival in Olympia this Saturday, February 18th. They will play in the Olympia ballroom from 1:00-1:30 as part of a kids showcase of concerts and dances. It’s worth a trip down I-5!
Much more info here.
Great slide show here.
Will Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow? When will Winter End? Is this a jig or a reel? How do those kids do it?
For the answer to these and other burning questions, come celebrate Groundhog Day 2012 with the Onlies at West Seattle’s great Irish pub, A Terrible Beauty, at 4752 California Ave. S.W. just south of the Junction. They’ll play some Irish, Scottish, and American tunes, plus debut their first song. A Terrible Beauty features great pub food and sublime beverages. The Onlies play from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
The Onlies are a fun band to watch, but they may be an even more fun band to dance to. Their next two public appearances will be at contra dance events. The first one is the venerable Lake City Contra/Old Time Country Dance on Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday, November 23rd. They’re sharing the bill with two young people bands, with calling by (slightly older) young callers. Last year’s dance was a gas – the video evidence is below.
On Sunday, November 27th from 3p-6p, they’ll be playing for the Rainbow Contra Dance at Washington Hall in Central Seattle, not far from Riley Calcagno’s ancestral home. For this event, they are the only band, and are practicing lots of fun sets.
Joining the Onlies for these two dance gigs is their very favoritest bass player of all time, RuthMabel Boytz. She rocks!
This Friday, November 11 is Veterans Day, and a day off for many, including the Onlies. To be honest, they’re most interested in sleeping in that day, but the night before they’ll be working hard and having fun playing tunes at West Seattle’s newish Irish pub, A Terrible Beauty, at 4752 California Ave. S.W. just south of the Junction. They’ll play some Irish, Scottish, and American tunes, plus debut their first song. A Terrible Beauty features great pub food and sublime beverages. The Onlies play from 5:15 to 7:30 p.m.
And that’s *Thursday* night, not Friday!
Sami and her peeps are back safe and sound from their exciting European travels, and the Onlies are excited to play together again.
First up is another little-kid oriented event on Saturday November 5th, and it should be way fun. It’s called the Building Blocks Festival, presented by Seattle Child magazine and Washington State’s Guaranteed Education Tuition Program. It’s a Festival & Preschool Fair for infants, crawlers, toddlers, preschoolers & their parents, with information and entertainment all day.
The Onlies will play from 9:15 to 10:15, so get there early!
Join us Thursday, July 21, for an after-work refresher, and a meal too, at West Seattle’s newest Irish pub, A Terrible Beauty, at 4752 California Ave. S.W. just south of the Junction. We’ll play Irish tunes, and sneak in a few Scottish ones to see if anyone’s listening. We play from 5:15 to 7:30 p.m., and hope to see you there!
The Seattle City Club organizes “community dialogues, political debates, educational forums, on-line initiatives and awards competitions—in collaboration with over 100 organizational partners,” and we are darn proud to have helped them out. If you’re interested in learning more, the CityClub’s Web site is at www.seattlecityclub.org.
We even managed to get our teeth on a few bites of Tom Douglas‘ famed coconut-cream pie, which is Sami’s favorite (she wanted it over birthday cake at her party this year).
Whew, what a great time we had yesterday playing at Folklife. THANKS TO EVERYONE for coming out and supporting us (we can’t believe how many of you bought our CD! THANKS!!!).
TODAY: Riley and his Dad, Johnny are playing a hopefully great old-time set today at Folklife. 7 p.m., Northwest Court Stage. Just a half hour later, Sami and her Dad, Tom, will be playing as part of the Northwest Scottish Fiddlers at the Seattle Center House Theater. (Unfortunately, neither of us can attend each other’s performance, and Leo has to make a most difficult choice…)
Also stop by the CD shop at Folklife to get our brand new CD! Its going fast!
We’ll be playing all new material, including several new tunes we’ve composed. And–since many of you have asked for one–we’re hoping to put the finishing touches on a CD that’s good enough to distribute. The price won’t be too high, we promise: Just enough to pay for production and a little extra to help us pay for fiddle camp.
On Saturday (and possibly Monday and Tuesday), you can see a bit more of us. We’ll likely be busking if we can find a spot to lay our fiddle cases down. Riley will also be playing old-time tunes with his dad, Johnny, at 7 p.m. Saturday, also on the Northwest Court Stage. The bummer of scheduling is that Sami (and her dad, too) will be playing with the Northwest Scottish Fiddlers at nearly the same time, 7:30 p.m. in the Center House Theater. We hope that doesn’t put you in a Sophie’s Choice state of mind…
See you Friday!
P.S. That picture? It’s from two years ago, when we first played NW Folklife, same stage. The gig was actually scheduled at around 2 p.m., so we had to skip out of school. Don’t tell anyone, but some of our friends skipped, too!
As you may know, the three of us summer each year for a week in Port Townsend (camping out at the fiddlevent extravaganza that’s known as Fiddle Tunes), but this year we’re heading there early for an evening of square dancing. Well, we won’t be able to dance (shucks) because they’ve got us playing (wahoo!).
We’ll be front and center with the Sultan of Squaredome, Tony Mates, our beloved caller. And we’d love it if you were there dancing with us too!
The deets:
Here’s a map.
And here’s more info!
