(Note: Girard’s Irish music band, Tara’s Fire is the latest to upload music to their JamBrain profile page. If you’ve ever been curious about this distinctive genre, there it is. They also added the following — dare we say deflagrate? (no) — descriptive presented for your entertainment, and as an example of the self-promotional possibilities available here.)

Tara’s Fire was (ahem) “kindled” in May of 2004 by three friends who had a BURNING desire to get out and play Irish music, in spite of the fact that only one of them actually knew and could remember the lyrics to any real Irish music (was that a problem?). For a brief time (a little over a year), they enjoyed some small success – added another couple of friends to fill out their already HOT sound, played a few gigs, competed in music competitions, released a CD (hint mode on — “Kindling the Flame” [you should buy it] we still have a few! — hint mode off). But alas, things happened. The flames of Tara’s Fire cooled to coals while we took care of personal business.

But the desire to make HOT music still lingered…

Various members went ahead and worked on personal projects:

Greg (the Dread Reverend) learned how to play a musical instrument (if you can call that playing), and enjoyed some success on his own.
Ray joined Dan and Mike to take a stab at music with North End (of a southbound mule), and when the body was well and truly punctured, went ahead and did some collaboration with Greg and his sometime-backup band. The collaboration was such a success (Let’s face it, Ray’s a much better singer), that we once again had a BURNING desire (really, aren’t there ointments for that?) to make HOT music again.

Since Greg abandoned his bodhran for the guitar, and Ray can’t do anything but sing, we needed a drummer. Luckily, our good friend (and Greg’s neighbor), John, was up for it, and since he already had some drums, and a high tolerance for pain (he DID work with Greg during the “Dread Reverend” period), he agreed to work with us (lucky him!).

SOOOooooooo…. where does that leave us now?

Oh, yeah – Tara’s Fire has since been REKINDLED, and we are out in your area making HOT Irish Music. Really. We’ve played out. Honest. People even say they like us (to our faces…) We have a new CD (“Fair Enough” – buy our CD! Please! It’s really the only way to get it out of the hands of people who will actually PLAY the thing, not knowing any better….)

So sit back, enjoy the music! Check out our website! Come to our shows and make fun of us!

Slan, Tara’s Fire (seriously – I don’t want to have to think up more flame-related puns, but I will!)