Irish Breakfast Band
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| Date | Description | Time |
| Tuesday, August 3, 2008 | Celebrate the 27th Anniversary of National Night Out with the Alexandria Police, Fire Department, and your neighbors. We will be playing inside the Mount Vernon Recreation Center, 2701 Commonwealth Ave., Alexandria, VA. This is a free event. | The schedule is not final yet, but based on previous years we probably will be playing from about 7 to 8 pm. |
| Thursday, August 5, 2010 | First Thursday in Del Ray! If enough of us are available, we sometimes play on the porch of the Anne Welsh Salon, although with National Night Out on the same week, we may opt out of playing this month. | First Thursday is from 6 to 9 pm; if we play, we usually play from around 7 to 8 or 8:30 pm. |
| Thursday, September 2, 2010 | First Thursday in Del Ray! If enough of us are available, we sometimes play on the porch of the Anne Welsh Salon. | First Thursday is from 6 to 9 pm; if we play, we usually play from around 7 to 8 or 8:30 pm. |
| Date | Description | Time |
| Saturday, January 9, 2010 | Not a IBB concert, but band member Jannie Johnston will be playing with the District X Honors Orchestra on Saturday afternoon. District X of the Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association includes the top middle and high school orchestra students from Alexandria, Falls Church, and the Annandale, Edison, Falls Church, Hayfield, Lee, Mount Vernon, Stuart, and West Potomac Fairfax County schools. The concert will be in the Auditorium of T. C. Williams High School, 3330 King Street, Alexandria, Virginia. This promises to be a great concert! | 3 pm. |
| Saturday, March 13, 2010 | We will be performing at Greenspring Retirement Home, 7410 Spring Village Drive, Springfield, Virginia. Greenspring is located just off the Franconia-Springfield Parkway. We will be performing in the Village Square Lobby area. Parking is limited, as this event is focused on entertainment for Greenspring residents. | 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. |
| Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | We will be playing again this year for St. Patrick's Day at St. Elmo's Coffee Pub, 2300 Mount Vernon Avenue in Alexandria, Virginia! | 8:00 to 10:00 pm. |
| Saturday, March 20, 2010 | We will be doing a fundraiser for Haiti at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2701 Cameron Mills Road, Alexandria, Virginia. | 7:00 pm. |
| Saturday, April 17, 2010 | We will be playing at the Carlyle House in Old Town (121 N. Fairfax St. in Alexandria) for the Friends of Carlyle House Annual Herb Sale, most likely joined by members of the Boyle School of Irish Dance. | The Garden Day Herb Sale is from 8 am to 4 pm; we are playing from 9:30 to 10:30 am (then heading over to our next event at the Beatley Library). |
| Also on Saturday, April 17, 2010 | We will be playing at the Charles E. Beatley, Jr. Central Library, 5005 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia, most likely joined by members of the Boyle School of Irish Dance. | We are playing from about 11:30 am to 12:30 pm (right after our previous event at the Carlyle House). |
| Saturday, May 1, 2010 | We played background music for a reception for the inauguration of the Michael Collins Gaelic Athletic League. The reception was at the Hotel Monaco on King St. The Mayor of our fair city and the Ambassador of Ireland were there to make a few remarks. Some irish dancers (not from the Boyle School) were asked to perform as well, but did not show. | 3 to 5:30 pm. |
| Thursday, May 6, 2010 | The first First Thursday in Del Ray! If enough of us are available, we sometimes play on the porch of the Anne Welsh Salon. | First Thursday is from 6 to 9 pm; if we play, we usually play from around 7 to 8 or 8:30 pm. |
| Friday, May 7, 2010 | We will be performing at Arlington Presbyterian Church, 3507 Columbia Pike (one block west of Glebe Road) in Arlington, Virginia, most likely joined by members of the Boyle School of Irish Dance. | 7:30 pm. |
| Thursday, June 3, 2010 | Not an IBB performance, but band members Maggie, Catherine, Emma, Jannie, and Molly will be dancing in the Boyle School of Irish Dance Recital at George Washington Middle School in Alexandria, VA. Because of this we will probably not do First Thursday in Del Ray this month. Tickets are $10, children under 5 free. | 6 pm. |
| Saturday, June 5, 2010 | We will be at the Folklore Society of Greater Washington's annual Washington Folk Festival at Glen Echo Park. Unfortunately our dancers from the Boyle School of Irish Dance are booked for another performance and will NOT be joining us. (Free, although the Folklore Society requests a donation). | 12:45 to 1:20 on the Crystal Pool Stage. The Festival runs from noon to 7:00 pm on both Saturday and Sunday. |
| Tuesday, June 8, 2010 | Not a band concert, but band member Maggie Johnston will be playing with the orchestra at T. C. Williams High School, 3330 King Street, Alexandria, Virginia. | 7:30 pm. |
| Tuesday, June 15, 2010 | Come to a fabulous house concert with The Red Wellies! The Red Wellies is a trio of fine Irish Traditional musicians operating out of Asheville, North Carolina. Fiddler Claudine Odell (her friends and family call her "Beanie") is a highly respected Irish fiddle teacher who has studied with some of the greats, including Tommy Peoples and Martin Hayes (and started out fiddling with the Irish Breakfast Band several decades ago). Her nephew, Duncan Wickel, on fiddle and Uilleann pipes, has toured with John Doyle and is a member of the Cathie Ryan Band. Beanie and Duncan have been playing together for more than a decade, and the resulting "twin fiddle" near-unison sound is goose-bump inducing. They are joined by Vincent Fogarty, whose tasteful bouzouki accompaniment combines a love for traditional Irish music with a rock-solid sense of rhythm and style. The house concert is at Karen and Gordon's house in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria (call 703 548-5784 for more information and directions) as part of the Folklore Society of Greater Washington's house concert series. Suggested Donation of $15.00 to the Folklore Society of Greater Washington, with all proceeds going to the performers. | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm. |
| Wednesday, June 16, 2010 | Not a band concert, but band member Jannie Johnston will be playing with the orchestra at George Washington Middle School, 1005 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia. | 7:30 pm. |
| Thursday, July 1, 2010 | First Thursday in Del Ray! If enough of us are available, we sometimes play on the porch of the Anne Welsh Salon. | First Thursday is from 6 to 9 pm; if we play, we usually play from around 7 to 8 or 8:30 pm. |
If you're interested in having the band perform at your event, please drop a note to sean"AT"irishbreakfastband.com (replace the "AT" with "@," we put it this way to confound SPAM e-mail address collectors). Please include your phone number.
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