It’s always nice to be on the ballot.
Please take some time and nominate The Flying Fish Sailors for the Best Folk Music category!

The nomination form is located at houstonpress.com/musicshowcase/2006/

This is going to be a GREAT event. Many of the people involved are also involved in the Houston International Festival and the Bayou City Art Festival.

I don’t have the full entertainment schedule yet, but The Flying Fish Sailors will be headlining on the main stage on Sunday afternoon at 5:30 pm.

A new fine art festival has been added to the spring Texas fine art festival tour!

Produced by The Art Colony Association, celebrating 35 years of independent artist support through fine art festivals, and presenters of the nationally ranked Bayou City Art Festivals, Houston.

The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival is a juried fine art festival featuring 200 national, and regional artists selling their original creations along a 1.25mile waterway park. The wonderfully landscaped site with water taxi service along the whole festival makes this a unique event that artists and patrons will enjoy.

More details available at woodlandsartfestival.com

The pajama party was a huge success! Thanks to everyone who came out in support of the band.

The Fish pics are up in the gallery at www.flyingfishsailors.com/albums/PJ-Party.
General photos and information available about the event at Jay Lee’s blog, Bald Heretic dot com.

Aqua Velva, Houston’s only and by default, best B-52’s cover band, Clouseaux, a band that defies description…lounge, tiki and eclectic are good adjectives to start with and The Flying Fish Sailors…all combined for one evening and it’s a pajama party to boot!

Molly and the Ringwalds will be doing they’re usual happy hour show from 7-9ish. There’s no guarantee they will wear pajamas but the rest of us will be adorned appropriately. Wear yours and get in free!

The Flying Fish Sailors had a very humble, yet ambitious beginning. This is a photo from our first live performance (circa 1988) at what was then known as The Wellington Stone on W. Alabama in the Montrose area of Houston.

Left to right: Jay Lee, Greg Henkel and Joseph Linbeck.

Click picture for a larger version

It’s hard to imagine that we are coming up on 20 years of performing together.

Be there or be rectangular!

We play at 4:00 pm

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The 6th Annual St. Andrew’s in the Heights Celtic Festival

Sunday, February 26th from NOON to 5:30PM @ 19th and Heights Boulevard

The Festival will be in conjunction with The Gathering of the Celts,
traditionally hosted by The Celtic Chorus of Houston every February.

The afternoon will include a wide variety of Entertainers on two stages,
Vendors with Celtic themes, a renowned Silent Auction, a Stained-Glass Tour,
great food and drink plus Games for children of all ages.

The Festival will begin following the St. Andrew’s Episcopal 10:30AM Church
Service as bagpipers lead everyone to the “Kirking of the Celts” and then,
to the opening performance on the Outdoor Stage. Here’s a sample of the
Entertainment:

The St. Thomas Episcopal School Pipe & Drum Corp
Cass Academy of Dance
Constant Billy (Bill Galbraith, guitar & Emily Standish, vocal)
The Flying Fish Sailors
Kennedy International Dancers
Irish Step Dancers
Sia Beaton (Scottish Singer)
Society for Creative Anachronism Dancers
Men of Houston Morris Dancers
Good Time Scottish Dancers
The Celtic Chorus of Houston
Houston Scottish Fiddle Club

Vendors, thus far:
The Celtic Store
Houston Highland Games Association
Irish American Heritage Association of Katy
Cowboy Szymonski (Blacksmith)
Robertley USA Ltd Company
The Backyard Gardner
Jericho Art
Baubles Jewelry
Face Painting, Etc…
Old Fashioned Things
Moore Expressions
The Magick Cauldron

@5:30PM A Piper will close the Festival, in gratitude, with the spiritually
moving song, “Amazing Grace”. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful
afternoon of COMMUNITY and FUN!!!

ADMISSION: Family Ticket – $5.00
Single Ticket – $2.00
Under 12 – FREE!

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Please visit our website: http://www.saintandrewsepiscopal.org/celtic.htm
Or contact: Chair: Kathleen Galbraith
713-868-5194,kgalbraith@sbcglobal.net
Co-Chair: Teri Jo Nicholson 713-688-6200,
terijo@houston.rr.com
Vendor Chair: Mary Rennie 281-341-8124, dprennie@aol.com

Poke You In The Eye Title track written by Jay Lee

Dollar General Dollar is a song written and sung by our fiddle player, Greg Henkel. Check out the Morricone bridges in this song.

Rain is our skewed interpretation of the semi-obscure Beatles song (the “b” side of the single “Paperback Writer”). This song is the direct result of our fiddle player’s brother Jim joining the band. You may have seen him play as the guitarist for Beetle, Light Rock Express and The El Orbits.

London Homesick Blues is just one of those songs we just had to record. It is an overplayed Texas anthem to be sure. Jay Lee sings this as a duet with Pete Gordon (aka The Dazzling Pete Gray of The El Orbits, aka Wet Dawg of Mojo Nixon and the Toadliquers fame, aka good friend and manager of the Continental Club). His piano playing is second to none and makes this song shine (IMHO).

Members of the Flying Fish Sailors are playing an impromptu show at Sig’s Lagoon on Wednesday night, Jan 25th. It’s going to be Jim, Greg and Jay from 9:15 to 10:00 pm.

It’s part of Greg’s birthday celebration going on that evening.

If you have a chance, stop on by as it’s open to the public and free.

Got the good info (turns out it’s not free…)

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The 6th Annual St. Andrew’s in the Heights Celtic Festival

Sunday, February 26th from NOON to 5:30PM @ 19th and Heights Boulevard

The Festival will be in conjunction with The Gathering of the Celts,
traditionally hosted by The Celtic Chorus of Houston every February.

The afternoon will include a wide variety of Entertainers on two stages,
Vendors with Celtic themes, a renowned Silent Auction, a Stained-Glass Tour,
great food and drink plus Games for children of all ages.

The Festival will begin following the St. Andrew’s Episcopal 10:30AM Church
Service as bagpipers lead everyone to the “Kirking of the Celts” and then,
to the opening performance on the Outdoor Stage. Here’s a sample of the
Entertainment:

The St. Thomas Episcopal School Pipe & Drum Corp
Cass Academy of Dance
Constant Billy (Bill Galbraith, guitar & Emily Standish, vocal)
The Flying Fish Sailors
Kennedy International Dancers
Irish Step Dancers
Sia Beaton (Scottish Singer)
Society for Creative Anachronism Dancers
Men of Houston Morris Dancers
Good Time Scottish Dancers
The Celtic Chorus of Houston
Houston Scottish Fiddle Club

Vendors, thus far:
The Celtic Store
Houston Highland Games Association
Irish American Heritage Association of Katy
Cowboy Szymonski (Blacksmith)
Robertley USA Ltd Company
The Backyard Gardner
Jericho Art
Baubles Jewelry
Face Painting, Etc…
Old Fashioned Things
Moore Expressions
The Magick Cauldron

@5:30PM A Piper will close the Festival, in gratitude, with the spiritually
moving song, “Amazing Grace”. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful
afternoon of COMMUNITY and FUN!!!

ADMISSION: Family Ticket – $5.00
Single Ticket – $2.00
Under 12 – FREE!

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Please visit our website: http://www.saintandrewsepiscopal.org/celtic.htm
Or contact: Chair: Kathleen Galbraith
713-868-5194,kgalbraith@sbcglobal.net
Co-Chair: Teri Jo Nicholson 713-688-6200,
terijo@houston.rr.com
Vendor Chair: Mary Rennie 281-341-8124, dprennie@aol.com

The show at Hickory Hollow was a HUGE success. Thanks to everyone who showed up and supported us!
If you were there and have any pictures, please send me an email! I would love to post them here.

For those who subscribe to the Flying Fish Sailors blog I apologize for the bombardment of notifications.
I was just getting the discography pages set up. Things should settle down for awhile.

I hope everyone had a merry Christmas and here’s to a excellent new year!