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From: wdr@faron.UUCP (William D. Ricker)
Newsgroups: net.music.folk
Subject: Re: Future of Silly Wizard and The Boys of the Lough
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Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 09:39:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 13 09:39:11 1984
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	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
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	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
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