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Patrice Pike/Wine Tasting/Irish Session (Wednesdays)

Presented by McGonigel's Mucky Duck at McGonigel's Mucky Duck

September 8-September 29, 2010

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McGonigel's Mucky Duck presents Patrice Pike at 6pm and an Irish Session at 8pm.  Plus a Wine Tasting in the Wine Room 5:30pm-7pm.

In the Wine Room - $10 - WINEAUX Wednesday Wine Tasting. For $10 per person you will be sampling selections and if you find a wine that you really love you can apply the $10 toward the purchase of a bottle. What a deal. Join us after work on Wednesday

PATRICE PIKE - Austin, Texas is known for its laid back, bohemian yet ultra committed music scene--something Austin native Patrice Pike immediately conveys.

She's been a professional musician since she was sixteen, but has maintained such a raw, down-to-earth quality and irrepressible talent that Billboard magazine proclaimed her "one of the finest up and coming contemporary rock singers in America".

High praise--and richly deserved. An award winning singer songwriter rocker with a punk edge, she's co-created numerous records and musical groups (including Sister Seven and Patrice Pike and the Blackbox Rebellion), toured all over the United States and Western Europe and just plain impressed those who've seen, heard and watched the talented woman.

And if deep musical aptitude wasn't enough, Patrice is a dedicated humanitarian who, in addition to other progressive endeavors, works with at-risk youth in Austin and abroad. In both music and life, Patrice Pike truly is the real deal.

IRISH SESSION - "What's the difference between a bodhran and a trampoline?" Shaver asks, in an Irish variation on the ever-popular bluegrass banjo jokes. "With a trampoline you have to take your shoes off." WHILE the weekly Irish session remains the heart and soul of Houston's Celtic folk-music community, a new generation of full-time bands is reaching a bigger and broader audience. Most local Celtic bands appear primarily at special events such as St. Patrick's Day and St. Andrew's Day celebrations.

The Flying Fish Sailors, the Scottish Rogues and Wyndnwyre have become regulars in recent years at the Texas Renaissance Festival in Magnolia, and the Flying Fish Sailors also are annual favorites at Dickens on the Strand in Galveston.

But the most successful local bands -Clandestine, Ceili's Muse and Gordian Knot - have built loyal followings that will turn out on a cold and rainy weeknight to tip a few brews and sing along with the bawdy old story-songs. "In the last five years, there's been a real upsurge of interest," says Gary Coover, former host of KPFT's widely mourned Shepherd's Hay radio program and a longtime supporter of Houston's folk-music scene.

"Bands like Ceili's Muse and Clandestine appeal to a younger crowd. They're putting a lot of energy into it and really giving it a boost." Local Celtic bands frequently share audiences, as well as billings at festivals and events. But each has a distinct sound and approach, from Clandestine's powerful blend of fiddle and pipes to the romantic storytelling of Ceili's Muse and Gordian Knot's contemporary "Celtic folk 'n' roll."

Wyndnwyre favors a delicate instrumental balance of hammered dulcimer, flute and harp. The Scottish Rogues, self-proclaimed "bad boys of the bagpipe world," play nothing but pipe-and-drum instrumentals. What you won't hear from these bands are such popular Irish war horses as Danny Boy. "We do our own thing," says Gordian Knot's Cidnie MacNamee. "When people want to hear Danny Boy or songs like that, we tell them we just don't do that."