The Munster Pickles - - - -
We came together though a love of Irish music, which arrived in different ways. Kris loved the fiddle tunes. Roland was drawn to the great musical variety - singable songs and danceable instrumentals, plaintive airs to fiery songs of rebellion that have all been a part in the shaping of Ireland and also of our own America. We decided from the beginning that the most important thing for us to do was to just have fun together and, if we could impart it to others in performances, then that was also good.
But we didn't want to confine ourselves to just Irish music. While we love it, there is far more to our musical lives than that. We've added music from other of the British Isles and that former colony, the one now called the United States. Music has always traveled back and forth across the Atlantic and we have a foot on both sides.
We came together though a love of Irish music, which arrived in different ways. Kris loved the fiddle tunes. Roland was drawn to the great musical variety - singable songs and danceable instrumentals, plaintive airs to fiery songs of rebellion that have all been a part in the shaping of Ireland and also of our own America. We decided from the beginning that the most important thing for us to do was to just have fun together and, if we could impart it to others in performances, then that was also good.
But we didn't want to confine ourselves to just Irish music. While we love it, there is far more to our musical lives than that. We've added music from other of the British Isles and that former colony, the one now called the United States. Music has always traveled back and forth across the Atlantic and we have a foot on both sides.
Where did our unusual name come from? It's also the name of a comic jig about the dubious delights of Irish food, one that Roland wrote in 2011. Kris and Roland had a gig together where the song was to be featured and, lacking a name for ourselves, they jokingly adopted that. And it stuck.
Give us a shout. We'd like to tailor a program just for you and introduce you to our foot tapping, knee-slapping music - beautiful music.