Band news:

We had a great time at Ceili at the Roundhouse Celtic Festival in Evanston, Wyoming on June 18 and 19th. It was great to be part of such a crowd of musicians. All-day bands, evening concerts by Old Blind Dogs and Molly's Revenge, and late-night sessions with everyone.

Gordon and Sky attended Zoukfest in June in Albuquerque, which once again blew their minds. Such an excellent world music camp. A year's worth of material absorbed in a week!

Doug Goodhart came to Los Alamos this past weekend for lessons, workshops, and a house concert. He taught fiddle, whistle, bodhran, and probably several other styles and traditions over the course of his 3-day stay. The power went off just in time for his concert at Bette's house, but the candlelight went well with the beautiful music Doug made. We'll have to get him back again soon!

Looking forward to playing for several community events this fall, as well as a Scottish ball around Halloween. Hope to see you at one of our upcoming gigs...

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Who are we?

We're a group of folk musicians who play celtic and old-time tunes in the upper Rio Grande valley of New Mexico. Our bread and butter is accompaniment for Scottish country dancing (RSCDS) and contra dances, and we play periodic Irish gigs on St. Patty's, as accompaniment for Irish step dancing, and parties. We've even played for an occasional bar mitzvah (Hava Nagila anyone?).

We jam on Wednesday nights at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church, 1738 N. Sage St. in Los Alamos. We assemble a subset of the jam group for any given gig.

Our name comes from one of our standard tunes, also known as "Smash the Windows". And we're not to be confused with the venerable "other" Roaring Jelly band in the Boston area! (Think of us as bearing the torch in the wild West...)

Contact info:

roaringjellyband at gmail.com

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