The Fox Hunt

Ireland Farewell

thefoxhuntband — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:31:41 +0000

Well it seems like the time has just flown by but it is officially time for us to leave Ireland. We have had more fun than we ever would have thought. Made great friends, saw amazing sights and even found some time to play some music. Special thanks to the Henry girls Dad, Joe, and Eilish and Greta at the Gallan House. Without them we would be totally lost in life. We are looking forward to a jam packed week in Scotland. Check Brookfield Knights for our schedule.

Derry

thefoxhuntband — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:50:03 +0000

Thanks to all the rowdy folks who came out to Derry last night at Sandinos. We had a blast and hope we get to come back and play some time soon. What an amazing town with an amazing story. Maybe next time we will try to play in the room that has a beer vending machine.

Back in Ireland

thefoxhuntband — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:20:14 +0000

Hey yall, hey yall, hey yall, hey yalllllll. We are back in Ireland after a couple great days in Scotland. We are playing around Donegal for the next couple days and playing shows as part of the Earagail Arts Festival. We played one show with the Henry Girls so far and it went great. After a couple more with them this weekend we will head back to Scotland to for a few more including the Heb Celt Fest. We have had an amazing time so far and are looking forward to the trip only getting better. We will post some pictures on here soon.
Love,
TFH

Ireland/Scotland Trip Thus Far

thefoxhuntband — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:48:28 +0000

So we’ve been many places, seen many things and played for quite a few new folks all without a single post. We’ve honestly been so busy with rehearsing, performing and adventuring that we haven’t had much time to lounge around and add to the ever growing world-wide web, but our luck has changed and here you have it post number 2.

We spent the whole first week working out a set of tunes with the Henry Girls (www.thehenrygirls.com) that we’ll hopefully get recorded at some point. There’s talk of doing a live CD or digital single from the show this coming Thursday night. Hopefully that will all pan out. We’ll be playing several shows with them coming up as a part of the Earagail Arts Festival (www.eaf.com)

We also did our first string of Scottish gigs with Brookfield Knights (www.brookfield-knights.com) and they’ve all been wonderful. The audiences here are close listeners, but we’ve been doing our best to adapt, them.

While in Scotland last, we performed in towns and cities of drastically different sizes and shapes. We saw cities and country side, adventured castles, climbed monuments and traveled on a boat that rides almost on top the water, but despite it all, our driver/tour manager Gerry managed to get us out and back to Ireland alive and unscathed. Here’s a link to an article about our performance in Sterling, http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage-visual-arts/the-fox-hunt-tolbooth-stirling-1.1038651

We’re back near the beach now in Malin and we’re relaxing, rehearsing and looking forward to a great string of Irish gigs starting in Derry tomorrow night.

For a full list of gigs you can check out http://www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html

Here are a few pics. Wish you could see them all, these places are truly beautiful.

Here's a good shot of Matt jamming with the local color in Cork.

Wal Mart has made it to Scotland and it's name is Asda

Here's a shot of the beach from a hill right outside of Malin where we're spending most of our time.

Edinburgh from atop the Sir Walter Scott Monument. There are tons of good ones from Edinburgh. This was the hardest to snap through sheer acrophobia.

We fit 5 people and all our instruments in the back of a Kia people carrier coming back from Larne to Malin.

Ireland Arrival

thefoxhuntband — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:38:54 +0000

So we made it over to Ireland and we’re getting some breakfast and getting ready to do some rehearsing with the Henry Girls. Nothing like 25 hours of straight traveling to get you ready to play some tunes. We’re going to try to do a good bit of web posting while we’re over here whenever we can get to the internet. Hope everyone is well at home. Keep us posted here or on our Facebook as to what’s going on over our way and we’ll do the same.

Ben was worried his banjo would never make it across the ocean. Luckily everything came out OK on the other side.

Here's a good shot of John crashing out waiting for the train from Dublin up to LetterKinney. This is pretty well how we were all feeling by this point of the trip. Not much sleeping on Aer Lingus flight 108.

And we made it. Here's all of us with the Henry Girls outside of the van we'll be traveling around in.

Smoked Country Jam and Ireland

thefoxhuntband — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:09:52 +0000

We are super excited to be heading to Smoked Country Jam tomorrow. It is for a great cause and is truley a great time. Had a blast last year and I’m sure this year will beat it. It should be the perfect send off. We head straight from there to the airport and will be in Ireland and Scotland for about a month. For a complete list of shows overseas check the Brookfield Knights web page. They are doing great things and it is a great honor to get to work with them. We will try to update the webpage with exciting news and pics from abroad. Cheers!

Smoked Country Jam and Ireland

thefoxhuntband — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:08:11 +0000

Vandalia and Mt Airy

thefoxhuntband — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:17:25 +0000

Thanks to all who came out and saw us at the Vandalia Gathering last weekend in Charlestown WV. Here’s a vid of Ben beastin it in the fiddle contest. Thats our boy Rory backing him up on guitar. Some of the band will be heading down to the Mt. Airy Fiddlers Convention for the next couple days before coming back up to “make music” at Over the Mountain in Rockton PA. Come check it out.

Backstage at Mountain Stage

admin — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:21:46 +0000

Pittsburg and Mo-town

thefoxhuntband — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:40:19 +0000

Yalls! We are playing at Bocktown Beer and Grill tonight. Its just a little outside of town. They have really good beer. And tomorrow any of you Morgantownians who wanted to see us in a venue other than 123 can come out to downtown Boston Beanery. This weekend we will be at the Vandalia Gathering in Charleston WV. We are playing a set on Friday night and probably just hanging out after that. There will be a number of WV legends there so come check them out too.