How I met Rathkeltair is kind of a funny story. I was celebrating my 40th birthday at Mid-Winter Scottish & Irish Music Festival with one of my dear friends. We both took a 1/2 day off from work that Friday. The plan was to leave DC by 1 pm, arrive King of Prussia, PA by 5, have dinner with the band we were going to see and then party the night away. Instead we hit a massive traffic jam. 3 hours later we were barely in Maryland. She was driving, so I started my birthday celebrating early in the passenger seat. By the time we arrived it was 9 pm, the band had just finished their set and I was more than a little tipsy.
After we checked in I called the band and was told to meet them at the hotel bar called Chumley's. Little did I know there was about 6 hotel bars. After roaming around for quite some time we finally went up to the front desk to find out where Chumley's was. This tall bloke wearing a bandana on his head was trying to check in, but "tipsy" me interrupted for directions. The front desk clerk told me he'd be with me shortly. Those that know me know that patience is not my strong suit. When they finished checking him in, this stranger took pity on the poor drunk girl and offered to show me where the bar was because he was headed that direction :)
A few minutes later we walked into Chumley's, I thanked him for showing us the way and I left to him at the door to meet my friends. When I got to their table I was met with shocked stares and a chorus of, "How do you know Trevor Tanner???"
"Who the hell is Trevor Tanner????"
Oh, no one, just the singer and guitarist of The Bolshoi, now with some group called Rathkeltair. By the time they finished singing his praises I was so intimidated I didn't speak to him for 4 more years, when I approached him about being on Volume I. Truth be told, there are moments when I still get a wee bit star struck. I swear I walked around for a week after hearing the Audacious Divas song for the first time muttering, "Trevor Tanner wrote a song for ME!"
For a band I didn't know very well at the start, Rathkeltair has become my protective big brothers of sorts. They've done so much for me in the past year, it is hard to even write about without getting a big lump in my throat. Here are just a few of the reasons I love them so much:
I'll never be able to express how grateful I am to Trevor, Neil, Nick, Aleks & Rob for all they've done.
After we checked in I called the band and was told to meet them at the hotel bar called Chumley's. Little did I know there was about 6 hotel bars. After roaming around for quite some time we finally went up to the front desk to find out where Chumley's was. This tall bloke wearing a bandana on his head was trying to check in, but "tipsy" me interrupted for directions. The front desk clerk told me he'd be with me shortly. Those that know me know that patience is not my strong suit. When they finished checking him in, this stranger took pity on the poor drunk girl and offered to show me where the bar was because he was headed that direction :)
A few minutes later we walked into Chumley's, I thanked him for showing us the way and I left to him at the door to meet my friends. When I got to their table I was met with shocked stares and a chorus of, "How do you know Trevor Tanner???"
"Who the hell is Trevor Tanner????"
Oh, no one, just the singer and guitarist of The Bolshoi, now with some group called Rathkeltair. By the time they finished singing his praises I was so intimidated I didn't speak to him for 4 more years, when I approached him about being on Volume I. Truth be told, there are moments when I still get a wee bit star struck. I swear I walked around for a week after hearing the Audacious Divas song for the first time muttering, "Trevor Tanner wrote a song for ME!"
For a band I didn't know very well at the start, Rathkeltair has become my protective big brothers of sorts. They've done so much for me in the past year, it is hard to even write about without getting a big lump in my throat. Here are just a few of the reasons I love them so much:
- They were the first band to handle sales of Celtic Pink Ribbon with their merchandise.
- They featured The Audacious Divas in the Goodbye to the Big White Van video, giving us much needed exposure.
- Trevor wrote our theme song Audacious Divas.
- The band recorded our theme song, which is available on Volume III & on Rathkeltair & Friends CPR. Rob created the video promo.
- While I took a hiatus from fundraising in 2013, they released Rathkeltair & Friends CPR and are donating all the money they raise with the CD & T-Shirts to breast cancer research & awareness.
- They hooked me up to get Volume III pressed less expensively.
- They are my own personal Rathkeltair Courier Service. The guys are picking up and delivering Volume III to me at Mid-Winter Festival, all the way from Florida, to save postage costs.
- Aleks came all the way to DC to sit in with Seven Nations at the first Celtic Pink Ribbon Presents event, when Crisco has a schedule conflict and couldn't make it.
I'll never be able to express how grateful I am to Trevor, Neil, Nick, Aleks & Rob for all they've done.
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