Upcoming Shows & Appearances

The Devil's Tailors at Fiddle Stage at the Virginia Scottish Games, Saturday September 2nd at 3:30 PM

We're very excited to have been asked to return to the Virginia Scottish Games' fiddle stage (http://www.vascottishgames.org/FiddleEntertainment.html). We'll be sharing the stage with other great acts like Terpsichore, Cello Below, and more; and there's a lot to do at the festival besides. Come on out and see us!

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The Devil's Tailors at Fiddle Stage at the The Takoma Park Folk Festival, Sunday September 10th at 3:45 PM

We're also thrilled to be returning to the Takoma Park Folk Festival for a second time. This is a very prestigious local event, and we'll be playing the Abbott Stage at 3:45 PM, sponsored by the Folk Society of Greater Washington; and there are so many other great acts to enjoy there. Come on out and see us!

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Scottish Jam Session This Coming Sunday, August 27th from 2:00 to 5:00PM at Fiona's Irish Pub in Kingstowne

Looking for something to do this coming Sunday afternoon? Want to see the Tailors (or most of them, at least), in an informal setting?

Then come one, come all to the only open Scottish jam session in the area. Play or listen to fiddles, pipes, whistles, guitars, and other instruments play the traditional music of Scotland and the Western Isles, as well as Shetland and Cape Breton.

The DC-area Scottish jam will be at at Fiona's Irish Pub in Kingstowne (http://www.fionasirishpub.com). Fiona's is located at 5810 Kingstowne Center, Alexandria, VA 22315; near the intersection of Kingstowne Blvd and Van Dorn, just a bit south of the Beltway. There's plenty of parking!

The Jam will be from 2-5 PM in the bar area (the Special Events room was booked for this month).

Though the session is dominated by fiddlers, all appropriate instruments are welcome, within reason. We try to stick to a Scottish repertoire, from all areas of Scotland and regions with closely-related styles (like Cape Breton and the Shetland Isles), though a few Irish tunes slip in. We mostly play reels and jigs, though we're trying to get more strathspeys and other tunes into the mix. The level of play at the session depends on who shows up. We often start as a slow session for the first 30 minutes or so, and become an advanced session for the remainder.

A tune list from previous jams is maintained on our jam blog (dcscottishsession.blogspot.com), as well as an "important tunes" list sorted by key and tune type.

Scottish Gaelic Song Circle before the Jam!

The jam will be preceded by a Gaelic Song circle that begins at 1 PM, and we're trying to overlap with puirt-a-beul in the beginning of the jam. Look for a list of jam tunes that are also are tunes for well-known puirt at the jam blog.

Mar sin leibh an-dràsda! (Good bye for now!)
Peter

Shows to watch out for...

With our band back at full strength, the Devil's Tailors are back to gigging. We don't have a lot on our plate yet, but we can confirm that we will be playing the Fiddle Stage at the Virginia Scottish Games, and the Takoma Park Folk Festival again! So look for us there, and look for more news about bookings soon.

We're hoping to be back into a regular pub gig by fall.

The Devil's Tailors Welcomes Scott Morrison to the Band

After being short-handed for a year and a half, the Devil's Tailors is very happy to be back at full strength!

We're very excited to welcome Scott Morrison to the band. We're very excited to welcome Scott Morrison. Scott is an extremely talented percussionist, whistle player, and Gaelic singer (and is actually Amy's Gaelic teacher, soon to be Pete's as well), as the 5th member of the band. He sat in with us at Southern Maryland for two shows, and everyone in the band spontaneously decided they wanted him to join us full time.

With Scott filling out the 5th slot the band, we'll stay with a single fret player, so we'll be retooling some of our orchestrations, moving Peter from whistle back to fiddle in places, and we'll probably be shifting more of our song repertoire into Gaelic in the future. So very exciting stuff!

Here's a little about Scott, in his own words:

Scott Morrison is a private music instructor living in Elkridge, Maryland where he has been running his school, Rimshots, Inc., for nearly 20 years.  He holds a B.S. in Music from Frostburg State University with a double concentration in K-12 Music Education and Percussion Performance. His teaching credits include private percussion lessons through Rimshots, regular workshops on the bodhràn, spoons, bones, and tin whistle at The House of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park and at The Appalachian Bluegrass Shoppe in Catonsville, annual appearances at area Celtic Festivals in Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Southern Pennsylvania, and at the Gaelic College in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

    Mr. Morrison plays in the world beat band called Big Blow and the Bushwackers and he leads his own Scottish/Irish traditional ensemble called Dìleab Phrìseil (Precious Heritage) and has performed with Celtic music notables like Billy McComisky, Bonnie Rideout, Neil Foley, Anrew Dodds, Ben Williams, Skylark, Donna Nomick, and now The Devil’s Tailors.  Mr. Morrison is a fluent Scotish Gaelic speaker and has worked part time as an on-line Gaelic instructor for the Atlantic Gaelic Academy and as a Gaelic phone interpreter for Language Line Services.  He also writes Gaelic poetry, sings traditional Gaelic songs, and is currently working online towards a BA in Gaelic Language and Culture through the Gaelic College on Skye, Scotland called An t-Sabhal Mòr Ostaig.  Mr. Morrison also has had an article on the history of the bodhràn in Percussive Notes back in 2011.

We're playing a jam this Sunday, and Southern Maryland Celtic Festival 4/29!

The Devil's Tailors at Pub Stage at the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival, Saturday April 29 at 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM

We're very excited to have been asked to return to the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival (http://www.cssm.org/events/festival/) for two shows this coming April, at their pub stage. We'll be sharing the stage with other great acts like Iona, The American Rogues, and more; and there's a lot to do at the festival besides. Come on out and see us!

Amy and Peter will be traveling to Scotland soon after, in May, but look for more shows to be announced starting soon.

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Scottish Jam Session This Coming Sunday, March 26th from 2:00 to 5:00PM at Fiona's Irish Pub in Kingstowne

Looking for something to do this coming Sunday afternoon? Want to see the Tailors (or most of them, at least), in an informal setting?

Then come one, come all to the only open Scottish jam session in the area. Play or listen to fiddles, pipes, whistles, guitars, and other instruments play the traditional music of Scotland and the Western Isles, as well as Shetland and Cape Breton.

The DC-area Scottish jam will be trying out a new home, at Fiona's Irish Pub in Kingstowne (http://www.fionasirishpub.com). Fiona's is located at 5810 Kingstowne Center, Alexandria, VA 22315; near the intersection of Kingstowne Blvd and Van Dorn, just a bit south of the Beltway. There's plenty of parking!

The Jam will be from 2-5 PM in the bar area (the Special Events room was booked for this month).

Though the session is dominated by fiddlers, all appropriate instruments are welcome, within reason. We try to stick to a Scottish repertoire, from all areas of Scotland and regions with closely-related styles (like Cape Breton and the Shetland Isles), though a few Irish tunes slip in. We mostly play reels and jigs, though we're trying to get more strathspeys and other tunes into the mix. The level of play at the session depends on who shows up. We often start as a slow session for the first 30 minutes or so, and become an advanced session for the remainder.

A tune list from previous jams is maintained on our jam blog (dcscottishsession.blogspot.com), as well as an "important tunes" list sorted by key and tune type.

Scottish Gaelic Song Circle before the Jam!

The jam will be preceded by a Gaelic Song circle that begins at 1 PM, and we're trying to overlap with puirt-a-beul in the beginning of the jam. Look for a list of jam tunes that are also are tunes for well-known puirt at the jam blog.

Mar sin leibh an-dràsda! (Good bye for now!)
Peter