Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site faron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!linus!faron!wdr From: wdr@faron.UUCP (William D. Ricker) Newsgroups: net.music.folk Subject: Re: Future of Silly Wizard and The Boys of the Lough Message-ID: <188@faron.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 09:39:11 EST Article-I.D.: faron.188 Posted: Thu Dec 13 09:39:11 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 04:47:09 EST References: <214@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA>Reply-To: wdr@faron.UUCP (William D. Ricker) Organization: MITRE Corp., Bedford, Ma. Lines: 45 Summary: From: keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris Keesan) Subject: Re: Future of Silly Wizard and The Boys of the Lough Message-ID: <1210@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 12:21:01 EST Lines: 16 Aly Bain is alive and well, to the best of my knowledge. Tich Richardson, the most recent addition to the Boys of the Lough, was killed in the car accident which injured Phil Cunningham. True. Haven't heard that Aly Bain has had any accidents. Phil is expected to be fine; his hand has recovered sufficiently that he has been playing piano again since October. I had heard that Silly Wizard had disbanded before the accident. Certainly Johnny Cunningham hadn't been with them for some time, since he lives in Philadelphia now. True. Johnny dropped out after the '81 tour to move to Philly. He joined them as a guest at Sanders Theatre on their '82 and '83 Farwell Tours. Johnny & Phil did a tour together last year. Phil was scheduled to do a Tour with Andy M. Stewart, lead singer for Silly Wizard, which he had to drop. (Manus Lunny of County Kildare, guitar, bouzouki, and gaelic singing, filled in.). Andy announced at the gig at the Old Irish Alehouse and other gigs of the tour that Silly Wizard would make a Reunion Tour May of '85--Andy, Johnny, Phil, Martin Hadden, and Gordon Jones, and possibly including Manus, too. The Boys of the Lough have regrouped three times previously, so I would expect them to be performing again with a replacement for Tich within a year or so. -- They are booked for Sanders Theatre in Cambridge March 1st, '85. -- William Ricker wdr@MITRE-Bedford.ARPA (MIL) wdr@faron.UUCP (UUCP) decvax!genrad!linus!faron!wdr (UUCP) {allegra,ihnp4,utzoo,philabs,uw-beaver}!linus!faron!wdr (UUCP) Opinions are my own and not necessarily anyone elses. Likewise the "facts".