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When Paul Chaffee peeled away to pursue other musical projects, we had the pleasure of working for a year with fiddle virtuoso, Laura Risk, until she moved to Boston. Then Chris Knepper had his unique way with us for a while doing Contra Dances and such, and when there was too much demand for his talents, we were very lucky to finally have as our fiddler, a musical associate of mine for many years, Kevin Bernhagen.
Junji is now working regularly with his bluegrass band in Japan, and touring with famous |
Irish musicians like Paddy Keenan and Andrew MacNamara etc. so he isn't as available except on occasion. This is when Richard Mandel, who had been Junji's substitute, became our primary guitar player.
Once in a while Tipsy House gets a visit from the best bodhran beater I know, Paul Donnelly, and sometimes we're lucky enough to have the well known harpist, Maureen Brennan along with us. Click here to see the line-up for Tipsy House that we have used for some concerts we have performed in recently. |
Well there you have it, the history of Tipsy House in a nutshell. Along with our usual fare, Tipsy House has made a name for itself as a good band for set dancing. For the last couple of years we have been having a great time playing for dances on Thursday nights at the "Plough," and we just completed a CD of the music we arranged for the sets called, "Sets in the City." (see our "recordings" page)
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Besides playing at "The Plough & Stars", (hats off to Séan Heaney because if it weren't for the "Plough" we probably wouldn't be able to keep going), we play for weddings, wakes, parties, grand openings, street fairs, special events all around the Bay Area. We aren't only the longest running band, but I think we're the hardest working Irish band in SF as well. If you'd like to see us work sometime, send me an email and I'll put you on our "Tipsy Spam" list.
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