Wicked Faire

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gig, performance, wickedfaire

We’re playing at Wicked Faire this year! Come join us for some Celtic mayhem and merriment. Also for music.

FYI, Wicked is at two hotels again this year. Here’s our schedule:

• 7:15pm Friday Hotel Somerset Bridgewater, 110 Davidson Ave, Somerset, New Jersey, 08873
• 1pm Saturday: Doubletree Hotel, 200 Atrium Drive, Somerset, New Jersey 08873

More about the faire, including location and ticket info, can be found at: wickedfaire.com. Facebook event here.

Dueling Mandolins

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celtic, gig, irish, music, performance, scottish

We had a great set on Monday night, and mandolin sensation Painless Parker joined us on stage for most of the 3-hour show of Irish, Scottish, and popular tunes. Dueling mandolins–that’s a pretty awesome thing.

We got through almost three hours of material that night. Lessons learned:

• While we’re happy with how the trio is gelling, the band has discussed some future directions for rehearsal. We think we’ll consolidate our set a little and tighten up in general.
• Neil also discovered that he really, really likes having two guitars on stage. We were afraid that the additional guitar would be clunky and in the way, but since Millicent is small, having the additional guitar really isn’t a big deal, space-wise. And trading off to a guitar that has lighter strings and a smaller fretboard is a nice relief from Kate’s monster-heavy strings.
• Always bring along extra mic stands and microphones. Roger again had no mic for vocals, since the house only had three. It also would have been nice to have a mic for Painless; he and Neil had to share a mic.
• Playing Mondays sucks. The crowd was awesome—thanks, guys!—but tiny. More people means more tips, which means more Baroque, less Hungry.

Don’t forget that there’s still time to win a free home concert from us. Just buy our CD on Bandcamp and we’ll automagically enter you in the drawing.

You’ll find more pictures on the band’s Facebook page. We’ll see you back at the Way Station in January, for another jam session!

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Apropos of nothing, here’s Matt’s rendition of “Silent Night” on the wire-string harp:

Contest: Win a free Baroque & Hungry concert in your home!

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celtic, concert, contest, folk, performance

Have you wanted to see Baroque & Hungry play, but haven’t been able to get to see us? Here’s your chance to have us come to you. Buy our albums this year, and you could have us play a concert in your home or hovel.

How it works:

Buying a CD or an online download by December 31 2011 will make you eligible for this. Either Live at Mannion’s or Matt’s solo disc No Frills Folk will do. This will enter you in a random drawing to win… us!

(Sneaky musicians that we are, this is really just a scheme to sell more CDs, so Matt’s daughter can get a new bike for the holidays. But don’t tell anyone!)

Here are complete songs from these albums to convince you that the discs are worth your time:

  

 

How we’ll figure out the winner:

We’ll need your name and a way to contact you. If you buy a download from Bandcamp, we have your email address already. If you bought a CD at a show, please let us know and we’ll add you to the list. (Perhaps you could buy a CD at our upcoming show in Brooklyn?)

Once we have all the names, we’ll them all on pieces of paper, close our eyes, and pick them out of Matt’s mandolin case. Then we’ll come to you and play an evening of music for you and as many of your friends as you can fit into your house/apartment/cardboard box.

Details:

Offer limited to locations within three hours’ travel from central New Jersey. (i.e., no flying or expensive car trips, unless you want to pay for that. We are poverty-stricken musicians, after all.) We may stretch this a bit at our discretion.

Must have bought the album in calendar year 2011.

Offer void where null. Relatives and spouses and employees of Baroque & Hungry must wear a disguise to be eligible for this contest.

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Edit: This contest, along with the year of twenty-eleven, is now over and done. Thanks to everyone who bought our stuff, and we’ll be announcing the winner very soon we have announced the winner here.