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The Dustmen perform "Black and Tans"

Group Name: The Dustmen

When/Where playing this week? Friday April 7, 9pm-1am at the Buffalo Irish Center (245 Abbott Rd.).

Irish Children’s Program Benefit Concert on Sunday April 9, 1pm-7pm at Waterstreet Music Hall in Rochester.

Band members/names/instrument…

Brian Quigley - vocals, acoustic guitar, octave mandolin, tin whistle

Lizzie Scinta - fiddle, guitar, mandolin

Russ Scinta - vocals, banjo, electric & acoustic guitars

Harry Linton - vocals, drums, bohdran

When did the band form? A little over two years ago, although we all got to know each other and started playing together earlier than that at Sunday afternoon jam sessions at an Irish pub.

You might like our music if you like… Gaelic Storm, the Pogues, the Saw Doctors, Great Big Sea, Spirit of the West, the Wolfe Tones, the Kingston Trio, Tommy Makem.

List of Recorded Releases

Rants, Reels, and Other Songs (2005/McWhorter Records).

New live CD coming this year!

Upcoming events:

April 21 - Shamrock Jacks in Rochester, 9pm-1am

April 28- Buffalo Irish Center, 9pm-1am

May 13 - The Union Bar (Pearl Street), 10pm-2 am

May 26 - Buffalo Irish Center, 9pm-1am

June 2 - Shamrock Jacks in Rochester, 9pm-1am

July 29-30 - Lockport Irish Heritage Festival at the Lockport Locks

Worst show the band ever played: We played a private gig in Rochester where our fiddler forgot her fiddle bow. After running across half the city to find a bow, we finally got back to the party only to find out that the bar’s policy was to refuse to serve alcohol to musicians playing for parties It was not a good night but we ended up writing a song about this gig called “No Bow, No Beer, No Service” that is on our First CD.

Best show the band ever played: The Buffalo Irish Festival 2005 - our first time playing at the fest, the crowd was great, the venue was a great, and we were on fire that day!

Anything else you would like our readers to know about the band? We will be recording a live CD this May 26 in the pub of the Buffalo Irish Center. We’d love to pack the place that night! Check our website for more details.

Contact information:

Brian Quigley (716)316-3959

www.thedustmenband.com.