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2021 Upcoming Shows + Video Link + Pictures

Piper Jones Posted on August 7, 2021 by ejAugust 7, 2021

UPCOMING SHOWS + Video link

The Post-Covid Land Rush is on and we have some wonderful pub, clubs, concerts, and festivals to play in the next few months! PLEASE COME SEE US!!

Saturday, 7 August
Boyd’s Jig and Reel
Knoxville TN

Sunday, 15 August
Festiva Concert Series
Greenwood SC

Friday/Saturday, 20/21 August
Maine Highland Games
Brunswick ME

Saturday/Sunday, NINE WEEKENDS 
28 August – 24 October

Maryland Renaissance Festival
Crownsville MD

Friday, 5 November
McGonigels Mucky Duck
Houston TX

Saturday, 6 November
MacFarlane’s Celtic Pub
Lake Charles LA

Below are some pictures from the recent Grandfather Mountain Highland GamesWeekend, as well as our newest video “The Taoist Tale” shot by David Quillin and Rachael Rodgers, edited by Rachael Rodgers. Rachael has been our good friend since 2015 on our first Western Tour and she is currently the music director of the Edgewood Celtic Festival and her own Turquoise Trail Concert Series. She is an excellent photographer as you can see! Thank you Rachael Rodgers for your support!!!

We went West in 2020 and made a video!!! It was a lot of fun to record the song and use Frances’s arrangement and my original reel in it. 

VIDEO LINK HERE. Scroll down for pictures!

It was fantastic to share the stage with Wolf Loescher again! We are looking forward to doing a lot of big festivals with him and helping out a bit on his successful solo project.

Wolf and Frances and I also had some help from our friends Colin Shoemaker, Alex Stewart, and Richard Kean. It’s always great to be with friends playing together!








See you all somewhere on the road I hope!!!! Until then PIPE ON!! ~ EJ

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Revel Grove

Piper Jones Posted on September 29, 2017 by ejSeptember 29, 2017

Here’s the first track of the Revel Grove album!  It’s named for the Maryland Renaissance Festival where Frances, Mike Huebner(drums), and I are playing the  for the next four weekends. When you enter the gates you’re in Revel Grove. It’s not a theme park. It’s a village populated by artists and artisans, the place for which this album was named.  We teach dances at our last set of the day and play the best tunes we can think of for the rest of the time. 

Bands like us wouldn’t exist without patronage. Just like it was hundreds of years ago, we travel from place to place and put our music together for the people who hire us. Good gigs and patron fans make it possible for this music to exist in the world for the folks who end up hearing it for free.  Everywhere we go we influence other musicians and even newcomers to the music world.  

Over the 9 week run of Revel Grove I’m teaching pipes to kids who work at the faire who come from families much too poor to afford lessons. Every player in this band end up influencing other musicians and audience members who play music, especially young people who are forming their mental map of how the world is. Your support has put us here, where we are doing good work!

You’ll receive at least one copy of this album soon but here’s the first track:

http://piperjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/01-Flora-Ms1.mp3

Flora Set: Bronni’s Blue Brozzi (M.Saul) / Unknown Reel (trad)

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Stripping

Piper Jones Posted on May 17, 2016 by ejMay 17, 2016

I’m currently driving away from Austin Tx where Frances and I were back with Rich Brotherton at Ace Recording with our drummer friend Matthew Williams on the kit.  We just had a fantastic weekend releasing the Crossing the Sabine to a … Continue reading →

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Crossing the Sabine just got mailed!

Piper Jones Posted on May 5, 2016 by ejMay 5, 2016

Hello Everybody! I’m so pleased to say that I just came back from the post office having mailed the first copies of the pilot CD Crossing the Sabine. They came in a bunch of UPS boxes last night around 7pm and … Continue reading →

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Off to the Printers

Piper Jones Posted on April 23, 2016 by ejApril 23, 2016

Well the CD is finally done and Crossing the Sabine is out of our hands and off to be printed. I anticipate copies in hand by May 3, in plenty of time for the May 13 release. The plan to make … Continue reading →

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Rough draft of a track order and notes

Piper Jones Posted on March 31, 2016 by ejMarch 31, 2016

I just emailed all this to Frances to add some notes of her own and let me know what she thinks of the order. This is not the whole story on these tunes. Nor are these notes necessarily all true, … Continue reading →

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