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Edit: 19th Dec:
I did the show, but under some rather trying circumstances. Ten minutes before I left to do the show I got a call from Atlanta saying my sister had gone to the ER for cardiac arythmia. I performed in something of a state of shock, my cell phone on vibrate so as not to miss any updates.
She's back home now, and has been put on beta blockers. Everything was normal except the EKG was slightly wonky. We think that a major contributor was the fact that she had that horrible flu and, of course, treated it with all manner of DayQuil, NyQuil, Robitussin, etc. etc. and most recently was on a powerful antibiotic. There were enough stimulants and sudephidrenes in her to launch a small rocket.
I'll try to talk to her tomorrow. Jaybus what a month it has been...



Friday night is our "Celtic Christmas" program at a local club. For the six or eight people that show up, I think they'll get a good show:

Set I
Gloucester Wassail (West Country Carol)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Drive the Cold Winter Away/Juice of Barley(Purcell)
Dutch Song
Shepherd's Dance (Breton)
Dies Irae (from Missa Requiem)/Rondeau(Fitzwilliam Virginal)
Boars Head Carol/Servants Bransle
Christ Child Lullaby (Hebrides)
Black Nag/Basque Carol
Greensleeves/Brian Boru
The Bear/Krebbel Giant (14th Century)
Piper in the Meadow/Oer Ywr Gwr
Dram to Warm the Piper (Danny Carnahan)

Set II
Red and Green
The Holly and the Ivy/Sans Day Carol
Cantiga (Alphonse X of Spain)
Ta soillse na Nollag
Woodmonger's Song
Patrick Kavanaugh: "A Childhood Christmas"/Suo Gan
St. Basil's
Nowell Sing All We May
Don oiche ud I mBetheil
In Dulci Jubilo
I Wonder as I Wander (J.J. Niles)
Auld Lang Syne (original tune)
Medley: Now the Green Blade Riseth/Western Door/ Waters of Babylon

Our instruments include hammered dulcimer, guitar, mandolin, Celtic harp, bohdran, tubano, D whistle, C whistle, "low" D whistle, and voice.