On Saturday November 17th, kick off your holiday season with The Woodlands Convention & Visitors Bureau at the 30th Annual Lighting of the Doves Festival featuring the arrival of SANTA CLAUS, Live Music, Ice Carvers, Snow, Kid’s Activities and much more!

The Flying Fish Sailors will be performing from 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m on The International Stage.

The Festival is in conjunction with the annual International Winter On The Waterway (iWOW) which will add an international flavor to your holiday celebrations in The Woodlands, Texas.

Admission is free! C’mon out and get in to the Christmas Spirit with the Flying Fish Sailors! ARRRR!

More information can be found on their Web site.

The Flying Fish Sailors will be performing at Discovery Green Park in Houston, Texas. The show is outdoors, all ages and FREE! The show is on Thursday, Oct. 18th and The Fish will be playing a 45 minute set starting at 6:30 PM which will be followed by the polka antics of Grammy award winners Brave Combo!

We don’t play live so much these days, so don’t miss this rare opportunity! Please spread the word and we hope to see you there!

The Flying Fish Sailors will be performing from 1-5pm on the Kemah Boardwalk for St. Patrick’s Day. Admission is FREE!

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We had a great show at Houston Via Colori on Saturday. Thanks to Elaine Mesker-Garcia (aka cybertoad) for taking some photos!

More in our gallery here.

The Flying Fish Sailors will be performing live at the 2010 Houston Via Colori Festival on Saturday, Nov. 20th at 12:00 noon! It has been awhile since we have performed so this is a GREAT opportunity to come out and see us AND see a bunch of really cool art being created on the very streets of downtown Houston.

Admission is free and it is an all ages, family friendly event. Via Colori takes place on Allen Parkway (Lamar St.) and Bagby St. surrounding Sam Houston Park in downtown Houston.

The FFS are dusting our dusty, crusty old classics for your listening pleasure. We’ll also be joined by the one and only Jim Bedinghaus on hand percussion so it promises to be a very lively set!

For more information please visit the 2010 Houston Via Colori Festival Web site!

Recently we unearthed a CD containing some live recordings of the band performing at the 2002 St. Patrick’s Festival at the old Garden In The Heights. The Fish were joined by our friend Tim Vorick on the drums and legendary hammer dulcimer player David Clauss of Celtic Stone fame.

Here are live versions of American Woman, Lark In The Morning, Loch Ness Monster, Remnant Stew and a jig medley of Morrison’s Jig, followed by the Swallowtail Jig, followed by more of Morrison’s Jig

American Woman [ 2:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Lark In The Morning [ 3:19 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Loch Ness Monster [ 3:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Remnant Stew [ 5:59 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Morrison's jig, followed by the Swallowtail jig, followed by more of Morrison's [ 3:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Thanks to all of our fans who voted in the 2010 Houston Press Music Awards! We took home the trophy for Best Folk!

The Flying Fish Sailors have been nominated for the 2010 Houston Press Music Awards! Please take a moment and go to the voting page and cast your vote for the Fish in the Best Folk category, we’d really appreciate it!

Best Folk (where we are) is category 34

While your there, consider our friends who are nominated in the following categories:

Category 16 – Best Rock – The Blaggards
Category 35 – Root Rock – Sideshow Tramps
Category 36 – Best Cover Band – Beetle (featuring our own Jim Henkel!)
Category 37 – Best guitarist – Jim Henkel

The direct voting link is at http://polls.houstonpress.com/polls/hou/mas2010

Thanks for your consideration and support!