We are a high energy performance Scots-Irish/Celtic band who perform music from the Renaissance through the Colonial/Early American time periods.

MINIMUM NON-NEGOTIABLE REQUIREMENTS ARE: -- Energy, articulation, emotion, clarity and brilliant technique. -- Good intonation is a must!!! -- Able to play in multiple-flat and multiple-sharp keys. -- Must be serious and available to rehearse & perform. -- We are a working band, and perform "professionally" at pubs, festivals, Renaissance Faires, museums, etc. throughout the mid-Atlantic region, as far south as Southern Virginia and the Carolina's and as far North as New England and New York. -- We perform as much as 3 out of 4 weekends per month. -- Our schedule is especially busy in the spring and the Fall seasons. -- We rehearse in Fredericksburg - Woodbridge Virginia area at least once a week, -- Be willing to wear costumes appropriate to the time period and/or culture we are portraying (i.e. Kilt, Irish Dress, Renaissance, and/or Colonial garb). -- Good people skills and able to deal with others in the group.

THINGS THAT WOULD BE NICE: -- Ability to read music. -- Ability to sing harmony vocals. -- Doubling on other instruments. -- Recording experience.

If you are interested, or think you might be interested and want to know more,

PLEASE DO NOT POST RESPONSE HERE,

E-MAIL: TomLoriMail@Yahoo.Com

Thanks,

Tom

Tom, that really is rather snotty---posting here, but asking for no responses here. We are supposed to care enough to copy/paste and reply via e mail?

Sorry, MC friends, I have just about HAD IT with people asking "Reply e mail......" or "You have done this before for me, so please reply e mail".......

I do quite enough searching/work as it is for people who don't seem to be able to deal with search engines. I'll be bloody dammmmmmed if I'll e mail much of anything anymore.

Besides, the "e mail to......" posters very seldom even come back to say Thanks for the effort.. I think I am ready to stop responding to "send answer to (e mail address) altogether.............

sorry, rant over. Tomorrow I'll probably be back to normal.

I requested people contact me via e-Mail in order to better facilitate more timely responses to inquiries and to allow people privacy in their responses. I didn't think personal information needed to be posted on a "news group" for others to comment on, as I didn't want other people to be hurt by the inconsiderate comments like yours.

By the way, I do answer my e-Mail. What is really "snotty" is posting a negative response to a thread you have no intention of taking seriously, even more, that by your own words, does not apply to you.

Please do not post any more negative responses to this thread.

Tom

But in general, people here do let the threads do the job. It is also a way we all keep in touch with what is happening. If someone strikes up a chat with you here over the details, it will help inform others as you respond and it goes back and forth.

So give Mudcat a chance, huh? It's a community, really not a newsgroup.

Sorry my pal shot fire, though, really.

~Susan

My truly sincere apologies.......I was just letting off some steam, and you inadvertendly got in the way. My fault all over.

She cooks and quilts, too.

~Susan

Hopefully no permanent damage done...

M

Thank you for the apolgy, it is accepted and much appreciated.

I hope you do find what you are looking for with your music.

I do realize how frustrating dealing with the pure rudeness of people not taking the common curteousy to acknowledge mail and phone calls, especially when it concerns something you feel very passionately about.

Thanks again,

Tom

~S~

~Susan

EJ

Anyway, you could try the rec.music.celtic newsgroup, but I think you'll get more serious responses from Mudcat! Good luck to you; your group sounds very interesting. I might come to visit a friend in DC at some point and would love to check out one of your performances.

Peg