Gerry Goodwin already had experience in the band ‘Thadys Remedy.’ Gerry met Mike Wallace at a place called McNamara’s, where Mike was working part time while going to school for public accounting(!) Giving ‘The Irish Brigade’ a rest, Mike Wallace teamed up with two great musicians located in St. Paul, Minnesota to form the band ‘The Old Triangle’.
The combination only meant more road adventures and embarrassing moments that resulted in energy, warmth, mischief and great harmonies on stage that entertained and brought about audience participation.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Author David Kincaid, pictured right at Gettysburg, has been the lead singer and guitarist with the rock group, The Brandos, for quite some time.
:) Irish Brigade by Jen Carie . The Irish Brigade tell the stories & sing the songs of the historic movement for Irish Independence. Gerry Goodwin already had experience in the band ‘Thadys Remedy.’ Gerry met Mike Wallace at a place called McNamara’s, where Mike was working part time while going to school for public accounting (!) The trio made it through thick and thin: having a woman pose as a fake photographer from Rolling Stones to keep a gig during the dreadful Disco days; making sure Steve was o.k.
Years after writing the song, when he became a re-enactor in Company I, 116th Pennsylvania Infantry, Kincaid discovered that that very company had been led by Captain Samuel Taggart, and that he had been mortally wounded at Ream’s Station, Va., on August 25, 1864.Irish folk music is, admittedly, an acquired taste, but for those who have acquired it, the renditions performed by Kincaid, Liz Knowles, Jerry O’Sullivan, John Whelan and a number of other supporting musicians have considerable merit. Historians may dismiss him as a vacillating general who threw away opportunities to win the war, but even as late as 1864, Joe English was concluding “The List of Generals” with: “But of one more I will be telling/And who should be restored straightaway/To put an end to this rebellion/Little Mac he knows the way.”Among the odder numbers included in Kincaid’s collection is a second version of “The Irish Volunteer,” by J.P. Webster and S. Fillmore Bennett, which is not performed to an Irish folk melody but to a tune typical of American sentimental parlor music at that time. Steve Mulligan was from Glasgow and Pete Yeates from Dublin. Sean Conway’s instrumental leads and fills create a light and lively environment for those who just have to get up and dance. The Irish Brigade are Ireland’s leading Rebel Band.
Also specific to the Civil War is a swipe taken in “Pat Murphy of Meagher’s Brigade” against Northern abolitionists, since even the most staunchly pro-Union Irish feared that freeing the slaves would limit their own prospects of finding employment. A Manhattan resident, Dave is a keen student of the Irish experience during the Civil War, and re-enacts with Co. I, 116th Pennsylvania Volunteers. But the pub owner was enchanted so put them up for the night and they caught the bus the next day.Gerry Goodwin went back to Ireland for awhile. Widespread British sympathy for the Southern cause strained relations between the United States and British governments, and fears that a divided America might be vulnerable to a British threat from the Canadian border made it easy for Irish-Americans’ long-standing antipathy toward the British to become an urgent cry to fight for their adopted country. During that time, he played all over the United States, but especially in the Twin Cities, St. Louis, and Omaha. Since then they have brought their own distinctive style of Nationalist songs to a wide audience across Ireland and beyond. after being thrown out the front window in an accident, only for Mike to be jailed later that night in trying to get the instruments out of the impounded vehicle; putting up with habits and compromised situations in a shared hotel room; accidentally staying too long on a docked casino boat. Find out more . His voice is captivating as he sings Irish Ballads about the different counties in Ireland, and whimsical as he sings ‘My Little Honda 50’ and ‘The Liar’ that will have you laughing in no time. Joe Smith also started appearing on the scene, playing with Mike now and then (read ahead for more on Joe).Mike Wallace was then joined by flautist and whistle player Sean Conway, himself an ex-member of the Shaskeen, a renowned Irish Ceili band. He of course also continued to play music until his untimely death on August 31, 2003.Dan Newton teamed up with Mike for a short while, offering his talents in guitar and accordion. Daily gigs were packed at McCafferty’s and later The Half Time Rec in St. Paul.
Kincaid, a long time Civil War enthusiast, assembled a collection of songs written during the Civil War era about Irish American soldiers fighting for the Union. Since then they have brought their own distinctive style of Nationalist songs to a wide audience across Ireland and beyond.They mix traditional Irish songs with modern material coming directly from the political situation in the north.