Photo Gallery
Enjoy these images from our stage and festival performances! We're grateful for fans and friends who have joined us in these acts of musical fun!
Scottish Music in Marquette
A standing-room-only crowd enjoyed our Scottish Music show featuring musicians, dancers and audience participation dances and songs: Maija Niemi fiddle, Mary Kay Aufrance accordion and vocals, Tom Aufrance guitar and vocals, Warren Hantz bass and keyboard, Pierre Ogea percussion, Bruce Irving guitar, Robert Yin fiddle, Carol Kasmer Irving penny whistle, and John Kibit, piano and dancers Deborah Choszczyk, Heather Dombrowski, Valerie Schuhknecht, Lauren Culpepper and more.
Enjoy live recordings from this show...
Music Night at Seattle's Best Coffee Shop
It's always a fine time making music at the coffee shop! Every week we sing and play, including many favorite sing alongs and lively tunes. There's a regular group of Celtic music lovers who always sing along and enjoy our coffee shop show. The friendships we have made doing these weekly gigs are precious! Thank you to Jens of The Carsonist for this image.
Wearin' the Green on 3/17
Irish music and green beer on tap for the St. Patrick's Day celebration at Red's Old 395 in Carson City with Wendy Ray, Irish flute and Sue Jesch, fiddle. It's a yearly tradition at to "Wear the Green with Gairin" at Red's on 3/17. It's always a wonderful time, with corn beef and cabbage, green beer, our Irish music and friends! That's Pat Lindsay in the photo, too. Many thanks for the photo to our friend Don Lindsay.
Strings in the Schools
Helping Sue Jesh with this gigantic workshop is an exciting experience for us! Sue immediately loved Mary Kay's idea of having the students create their own Celtic bands. On this day, ten new Celtic bands debuted their performances. In this image, Mary Kay and Tom play a lively Irish tune with the students and parents cheering their kids on.
Something else exciting: one of the bands chose to play and sing Mary Kay's song The Bells of Ireland. We loved being invited by Director Sue Jesch to help teach Celtic tunes to the students at this annual workshop and at regularly scheduled practices in Carson City. In this image, Sue, Tom and Mary Kay play an Irish tune with the student groups. As part of the workshop, the members of each group chose their own name for their Celtic band, and the names are posted on their music stands. (Our thanks for these photo mementos goes out to Carl Harmon.)
A Musical Celtic Summer's Eve
On stage for Artown in Reno, Nevada. We happily added our talents to the Celtic Summer's Eve performance by Reno Irish Dance Company.
After the Celtic Summer's Eve we found ourselves on the front page of the Reno Gazette Journal!
Reno Celtic Celebration
On stage at Reno Celtic Celebration in Wingfield Park, Reno, Nevada USA.
A fast tune for the Irish dancing lassies who jumped up out of the audience to add their merriment to our act!
Slim & Minnie at Nevada Arts Association Awards Reception
Thanks to Brewery Arts Center Director Chris Bayer for catching us in action as Slim and Minnie playing folk music for the Arts Awards Reception. This post on appeared on the Northern Nevada Busker News Facebook.
Valhalla Americana Festival
Playing a tune set with Sue Jesch fiddling at Valhalla Americana Festival. We love performing with Sue! Thanks for the photo to Tahoe Tallac Association, South Lake Tahoe, CA USA.