Sandia Celtic Ensemble

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Appearing at the Rio Grande Valley Celtic Festival with the Sandia Celtic Ensemble, Sunday May 4, 2025. We're also at the Irish American Society of New Mexico on May 9, 2025.
Not-so-fast Irish Tune Session, every Tuesday from 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. at the Manzano Mesa Multigenerational Center, Albuquerque, NM. All are welcome.
We held a Not-so-fast Irish Tune Session at the Albuquerque Folk Festival, Albuquerque, NM on September 29, 2024. See the Tunes page for some of the music we played.
The Procrastinator, the new CD by Ron Carlson, features 17 of his well-crafted original songs. I was pleased to play on a few of them, including Rough Edges, a powerful song on which I played hurdy gurdy.
I've added an "unplugged" version of Eye on Orion to the music page.

I've added Massachusetts-based band Riverbend to the music page. This group eventually morphed into the Worcester Folk Orchestra, for whom I wrote the Worcester Waltz.

Syzygy's song "All This For That" was featured on the KUNM radio show "Ear to the Ground."

My Dad's memoir Adventures of a Star Warrior is now available directly from me; email me for a copy. Pictures and a sample chapter are here.

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Updated April 27, 2025