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Savannah Jams Podcast
Ep 20: Michael Corbett
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Irish folk music has long been part of Savannah’s cultural fabric, and few musicians have helped carry that tradition forward like Michael Corbett. In Episode 20 of the Savannah Jams Podcast, we sit down with the longtime Irish folk singer to talk about his 30+ year musical journey—from growing up near Boston and learning from legends connected to the Clancy Brothers to performing across Savannah for more than two decades. Corbett shares stories from his years with the beloved duo Seldom Sober, his new project the Galway Rogues, memorable performances at historic venues like Kevin Barry’s, and what’s ahead for Savannah’s biggest St. Patrick’s Day celebrations at Wexford Pub. It’s a deep dive into the history, community, and future of Irish folk music in Savannah.
Four, four, four, five, five, five, five, four, five, four, four, five, four, four, four, five, four, five, four, four, five, four, four, five, five, four, four, five, five, five, and I'm gonna try to have the the uh microphone awareness right here. So, well, hello everybody. Welcome back to the Savannah Jams podcast. Uh my name is Scott Siegel, founder of Savannah Jams, and we are here today in uh the home of Mr. Michael Cor Corbett Corbett. Corbett, yes, Corbett. Michael Corbett, so thank you for having me over. Thank you.
SPEAKER_00Welcome to the Corbett Culpa House.
SPEAKER_02We uh this is a lovely area. I'm not we were joking on the last podcast. I accidentally like said like the address, and so I I have to like stop you know saying that. But this is a lovely area. It's an area uh in South Carolina I have never been to. So uh thank you again for for uh taking the time out of the way. Of course. Um but now I guess uh we got we got a lot to talk about. We'll eventually get to um what we were just talking about. Uh a lot of the stuff that you got going on being that God, that dreaded day, that day of days. St. Patrick's Day. Uh is just 17 days away. Can you believe it's March 1st already?
SPEAKER_00Um I can't believe it's not even January anymore.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's uh yeah, it's just been well, like you said, you got a couple years on me, does it it just keeps going by faster and faster every year.
SPEAKER_00Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna steal that one. Um but uh ironic because we're just talking about the pandemic too. Right. So but now, Michael, I guess so uh most people would probably know you from Seldom Sober.
SPEAKER_00Yes, Seldom Sober, and we had a five-piece band called the Savannah Cayley Band around the same time. Uh but yeah, that's um that's where we uh where we all first got together.
SPEAKER_02So Seldom Sober was uh I guess an Irish duo?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it was uh it was always just Colleen Settle and myself. Occasionally um uh someone would book us and ask if we could add a third person, and we would we would pull someone from the Savannah Cayley band, and not necessarily the same person depending on what they wanted. But yeah, Colleen and I played pretty much just the two of us for 17 years professionally. We played together for 18 years total, but 17 years professionally. Wow, that's seldom sober, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Um and then so then Colleen retired, I believe.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, she had a a a a scary bout with ovarian cancer back in 2023. And um, you know, she really decided that she uh had to live her best life and that that life did not include exhausting herself with seven to ten pub gigs with five people paying attention, you know.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I can't blame her.
SPEAKER_00Um the gigs we had at at the time um weren't always as good as the gigs that that I have now. So it was um you know, I can't I can't blame her for wanting to uh go in a different direction and and you know, to get out of that. It's a tiring business playing pub gigs.
SPEAKER_02No, I understand, yeah. Um now that was what 2023?
SPEAKER_00Well, 2023 is when she had her cancer. Um it was April of 2024 was when we played the last Seldom Sober gig.
SPEAKER_02Okay. All right. And then now you were in another duo, Galway Rogues.
SPEAKER_00The Galway Rogues, yes. It's it's hard to find a good name for an Irish band that's not already being used. So we we came up with a few and we tested them out on people. I actually liked my partner Dan came up with the name Road to Cork, and I actually liked that one, but people liked the the Galway Rogues. Road to Cork, yeah. Road to Cork, yeah. So people liked the Galway Rogues the best, so um we stuck with that one.
SPEAKER_01What what is a Galway rogue?
SPEAKER_00Well, Galway's a city in Ireland, and uh okay. The word rogue comes up a lot in uh folk music in general, and you know, to some extent Irish music, more so English music, but uh um you know I I I thought about calling us the Galway Rovers, but the word rover is overused in band names in Irish music. So I just wanted something a little different. Um something that was memorable, but you know, there's never gonna be a band name as good as Seldom Sober.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Well what so I mean when I think of the word rogue, am I thinking of it into you know it like a kind of like a maverick, somebody who goes against a grain? Is that the same definition in the Irish folk term or is it different?
SPEAKER_00In folk terms, it's more of an old-fashioned thing, someone who's uh mysterious and clever and you know, they would they would use the term roguish, you know, someone who's unpredictable and secretive and okay.
SPEAKER_02So okay. I've I've heard that term uh it has an air of mystery around it. Yeah, I've I've heard it used that way roguish before. So but okay, interesting. Now who um that's Dan O'Connell.
SPEAKER_00Dan O'Connell is my partner. He was in the Savannah Cayley band, which ran from the Savannah Cayley band started right around the same time as Seldom Sober, but didn't last as long. The Savannah Cayley band ended in 2019. Um when Colleen was was ill and recovering, uh Dan stepped in for several gigs in her place. Um since we had such a long history together, it was it was pretty easy to just kind of step into it. You know, I had to get rid of a lot of songs because there's a lot of songs that don't sound right without fiddle accompaniment.
SPEAKER_02She was fiddle as well, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Um Dan plays accordion and tin whistle. He plays flute as well, but he doesn't do that at our gigs. Um just kind of accordion and tin whistle. Um but it's been pretty easy because we already had such a history, and Dan's really good at winging it. So when I say, Okay, I got a new song tonight, it's in the KFC, let's just go. You know, he he he figures it out and follows along, and he's he's he's pretty laid back and easy to get along with. So it's it's it's been a good partnership so far.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that answers my question. I was gonna say, um, you know, I I think before we started the interview, I was asking you a couple, you know, I said, you know, I don't know much about the you know the folk history and the you know Irish and stuff like that. Um I got like on the on the on my site, you know, for Savannah Jams, I just I have genres and I have folk and then I have Irish. But isn't it like but there's far I mean I think there's there's you guys, there's what um the Maybells.
SPEAKER_00The Maybells, yes.
SPEAKER_02Um and then as far as local, local, and the unless I'm missing some, but then No, and there's gonna be s we're gonna be mixing it up.
SPEAKER_00Um Micah Bond from the Maybells is gonna be playing some gigs with me as Corbett and Bond, and then uh sometimes we have for festivals and stuff, we have local legend Johnny Kennedy playing on the bass, and Johnny and I are gonna do a couple gigs, uh, just the two of us. So the there's gonna be some different iterations of things, but it's pretty much us and the Maybells, and then you may see you did an interview with Dave Smith. Um he does um some Irish as kind of like a a side thing musically. Uh I don't think it's his main focus, but he's he's very good at it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Okay. So yeah, so look, I'm getting a crash course on um and of course local legend Harry O'Donohue, but he he doesn't he doesn't play locally much anymore.
SPEAKER_00He's he's done the cruise ships, right? Cruise ships, and then he plays at Katie O'Donald's in Bluffton once every month or two. Um and he plays for the Savannah Folk Music Society once in a while, but uh but you're not gonna see him down at Wexford Pub or anything like that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Um I haven't seen him in a while. Last time I saw him, I think, was at Forsyth Park five years ago.
SPEAKER_00Well, Harry's been very good to me. Um he was good to both Colleen and me and uh got us a lot of opportunities, including our gigs at Kevin Berry's and everything like that. So we we owe Harry a lot.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we were talking about uh uh Kevin Berry's um but but before we get into that, let me just talk about your background really quick. Um so thirty thirty-one years uh you've been in the thirty-one years professionally as of April 7th next month. Um to the to the day, wow.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, my first gig was when I was a student at Providence College. I joined an Irish band on campus, and uh it's been uh it's been quite a ride since then.
SPEAKER_02So you're from the Boston, the New England area?
SPEAKER_00Yes, I'm from the the southern suburbs of Boston, um kind of halfway between Boston and Plymouth. Everybody knows Plymouth and Plymouth Rock. Um so you know that's where I kind of cut my teeth with everything, and um it was it w it was very good. I got into Irish music actually just about 35 years ago this week when there was a concert at my high school. Well, I I should say I had always always been interested in my heritage and genealogy and stuff, and started tracing the family history when I was nine. Um and this band that played at my high school was an Irish band. Two of the teachers were teachers at my high school, and one was my assistant principal from junior high that I I had been close with. And so I said, Oh, you know, I'm I'm Irish, let's go check this out. Oh my god, I fell in love with it immediately. Oh wow. They had three really good recordings that they had made, and they they sold them for only five dollars, and I was really lucky because that night they had a special two for ten and three for fifteen. And um um uh let's just say those those recordings were on cassette, and uh it's safe to say I wore them out listening to them. Unfortunately, it was a it was a couple years later before I had the idea to actually learn how to play guitar and do that kind of thing. I wish I had that idea sooner, but um I'm also thankful that I at least had the idea.
SPEAKER_02Now, eventually you've uh you came down to the savannah area, you've been here 21 years.
SPEAKER_0021 years in July.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, July 19th will be 21 years since we so you had a pretty famous mentor as well. Was that correct?
SPEAKER_00I did, yeah. And uh, you know, I hate to feel like I'm name-dropping, but he's been he's been gone for so long that people people long for some connection to him. But yeah, um, it was the Clancy Brothers that inspired me to actually learn guitar and play music. I was at a Clancy Brothers concert on Cape Cod in August of 1993, when it just hit me like a lightning bolt, just like in the old cartoons. And uh, you know, let's get a guitar and learn how to do this kind of thing. But um I became close with Robbie O'Connell, who was the Clancy Brothers' nephew who was in their band. Um he was from Ireland, but he lived in the Boston area. And then uh I got in close with the Clancies and Liam Clancy and I, um, who's probably the most famous of them, um we became very dear friends. Um and uh I went to his house in Ireland to s stay with him and I ran his website for many years. And um I really you know I I I should have asked him more questions about music, but it was kind of our relationship was that of equals, not as famous folk singer and fan. Uh and and it was strange because we had you know we had a about a I don't know, like a almost a 40-year age difference. But but it was just like we were the same age and just buddies hanging out and uh so I didn't bother him with a lot of questions, but I I learned a lot through osmosis. I did ask him a few things. Um so yeah, I mean uh to to be here now when all of these people are gone and to to have been trained by the people who basically invented Irish music as we know it today, as far as songs go, it's um it's it's humbling and and makes me appreciate that I grew up where I did where where these people were doing shows all the time and you had access to them.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Um now so you've been here twenty-one years, you were playing with Colleen Solomonsober for about seventeen some years. Yeah. Um and we were talking about some of the places that you have played there. Um uh and also we were talking about Harry O'Donohue, where he I think a lot of people know him from Kevin Berry's, yes, down on River Street, and I was saying how Kevin I've lived here in Savannah for going on 24 years, so um Kevin Berry's is one of the first bars I ever went into. Of course. Um it's uh you know, I didn't I I I personally I wasn't there I I would say in my lifetime I I went into Kevin Berry's maybe you know six or seven times um but it was always a special memory of every time I went in there. Right. And you know, like uh the Savannah's as historic as it is, it's uh it's almost like bars like that are just few and far between, you know.
SPEAKER_00You know, it's it's not a it's not a profitable m business model. I mean, there's no TVs in Kevin Berry's, there were no TVs. You know, they had that separate listening room for the music where it was made very clear to you that you were supposed to be quiet while the performer was performing. Yeah, you don't see that in pubs.
SPEAKER_02They're listening slash dining room, right? Pretty much, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um you know, they were there were some parts of um you know Kevin Berry's that could be a little bit controversial to some people. Um but it you know I I think Vic, the owner, you know, he his goal was not to make a bunch of money, it was it was to do to create a proper Irish pub in a city that desperately needed one at the time. You know, and he did such a good job of of creating that. It was really a special place, and it the stage at Kevin Barry's was one of the most coveted stages in Irish music, nationally and abroad. Was it really? It really was.
SPEAKER_02I had heard stories and I I had heard I know Harry is you know pretty big up there, you know, in the in the echelons of of Irish uh folk music and such, but I did not know that. So it really like it it crossed the pond as far as like notoriety and stuff.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, there's uh there's a a famous story. There's there's a really famous Irish folk musician from Ireland named Christy Moore, um, who became famous way back in the 70s. And uh he was in Savannah once and he popped into Kevin Berry's and he was sitting at the bar, and the bartender didn't recognize who he was, and he's he said to the bartender, you know, I'd I'd really like to do a show here. And she said, Oh no, you'd never get on the stage. No, it's way too competitive. You know, she didn't realize she was talking to a legend of Irish music. Yeah, well. But um I mean we we were lucky we th they booked so they booked Entertainers a week at a time where Colleen and I came in as, well, first of all, we had an informal session on Sunday nights, um, which is not on the stage, it's just sitting at a table in the corner singing and playing tunes and stuff like that. But um there were performers who didn't want to do the full seven nights, they wanted to do five or six nights, so they would they they would bring Colleen and me in to fill in the gaps instead of you know Harry having to do more and stuff like that. And you know, and I realize if if we weren't local that wouldn't have happened, but yeah. But you know, there were there were times when they needed someone to fill in and you know they they refused to bring in other local options, so it you know, we we we kind of we felt good knowing we were at least good enough to do to do that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah. God, I'm I'm I miss uh I miss Kevin Berry's.
SPEAKER_00And you you mentioned okay I was gonna say there's there's there was a meme that went around several years ago that said if you haven't been fired from Kevin Berry's, are you even from Savannah? Because everybody has a story about being fired from Kevin Berry's.
SPEAKER_02Well, you know, that's funny. You and you mentioned Sunday. Um I've always said in my you know, I I don't party anymore, but uh in my partying days, I I always said Sunday was the most underrated, underappreciated uh night, evening night to go out in Savannah. And I remember those Sundays. I've been to Kevin Berry's on a Sunday, you know, um, and just like I was talking about just a feel of it, you know. Just is not there's nothing like it. There there's uh one being I'm from Northern Virginia, um right outside of DC, Mount Vernon, Alexandria. Oh yeah. And there is one in you familiar with Old Town Alexandria?
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, I love it. I absolutely love it.
SPEAKER_02There was one called Bullfeathers. I don't know if you ever heard of Bullfeathers up there. That and then there was um there was a uh famous to us up there in Northern Virginia. There was an Irish bar, I forget the name of it, but uh that was you know, when I turned 21, I went there, you know. And um, yeah, it's just that feel of that old right. Like when you were telling me uh, you know, about the guy going there in the 70s, I was like, man, I would have loved to gone to Kevin Berry in the 70s. That would have been amazing, you know. But um so other than Kevin Berry's now that you are um in your new duo with with Galway Rose um with with Dan. Um what are some of the other places that uh you're playing? And I want to ask you about one in particular, but uh um Well, we do play generally once a month down at Debolation Brewing.
SPEAKER_00That's the one I was gonna ask you about. Richmond Hill, which is Viking themed. Um the owner used to own Fia Rua Pub in Richmond Hill, um, but he wanted to own a brewery, and there's some strange law in Georgia where you're not allowed to own a pub and a separate brewery at the same time. Really? So he sold Fiat Rua and then it eventually went under. Um, because uh Dave can turn anything into gold, but not everybody can. Um he had he had hired us, he wasn't the original owner of Fiarua, um, but he had bought it from somebody when he got out of the military, and uh he used to hire Colleen and me there and then uh you know start bringing us over at Debolation and uh we're we're made to feel very welcome there. Yeah. Um but um we do play a lot at Wexford Pub now as well. We played opening night um actually, and uh that was great because all three owners were there. Um and and I I had one of my better nights that night, so um, you know, we got in good that night.
SPEAKER_02Well, speaking of better nights, so I was I'm looking at your hand here. So um you told me you've had what eight hand surgeries or something.
SPEAKER_00Eight surgeries, yeah. I mean I I didn't go in for surgery eight times, I went in for surgery four times. Um they did multiple surgeries almost every time. Um carpal tunnel in both wrists, which is that's not a big surgery, um, but ulnar nerve entrapment in both elbows, um, tennis elbow and golfer's elbow in the right uh the right the left side because of uh just from fretting cords and gripping on too hard.
SPEAKER_02Golfer's elbow. I never heard of that one.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's it's just uh it's on the other side.
SPEAKER_02You got hit with just some stuff that people never even heard of before.
SPEAKER_00And then uh this past April I had a bone removed from my right wrist for um um thumb arthritis. And uh now I've got the arthritis starting on the left side, and that's because like a lot of folk singers, I f I fret with my thumb. Um I actually put the thumb over the top and fret with it. Um and uh I've got some fraying on the tendons of my right shoulder. So, you know, I've got my battle scars from being a folk singer and I'm very proud of them. And uh but you know, it just like it means so much to me. It really, honestly, outside of my wife and my son, there's nothing as important to me as as being a folk singer.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you mentioned that um so the speaking of Wexridge, well, I wanted to ask you about Devilation because I I uh on a side note, I know that there's lately, other than Flashback, um there's really no more live music in in Richmond Hill, and I know Devilation does it uh very rarely or once a month, or you know, like you're telling me.
SPEAKER_00Most of their events are like, you know, karaoke or trivia night or line dancing or cigar night or something like that.
SPEAKER_02Um but you had mentioned Wexford, so yeah, so to so Wexford's to me is just I mean, their reputation is growing um as you know, I consider them a whale, you know. Like I I tell people they're like, What do you mean? I say like a whale being like live like the ultimate ultimate live music. Like they have live music. There's only a couple spots, like Wexford instead, two or three places that have live music every day, multiple times a day, um multiple locations, you know, um a touring axe, you know, upstairs and then the the locals' courtyard. So um how do you like playing at Wexford? You you told me about the you just mentioned the first time they're opening night, but what have your other experience playing?
SPEAKER_00We've had you know, and every every gig is a little different because you don't know um uh what percentage of the people came there for the Irish music upstairs. Um there's always some segment of the people there that that came just because the food is good and sure they had tables available upstairs. Um but when when we get like 35 to 50 percent of the audience there for Irish music, it it it can get pretty good and a lot of uh tourists um who are from parts of the country where Irish music is more popular, um they they come in and and we have a a pretty good time with them. And um there may be some changes coming. Um there there's some indication that we may be playing Wexford more often than we have been. Nice. Um My way it'll be it'll be one weekend a month, but I don't know if that's exactly what's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_02Breaking news, you heard it here first. Yeah. Exactly. Um now you just a second ago you mentioned that other than your wife and and your and your son and your family that you know your other love is is you know Irish music. Um now getting into talk continuing with Wexford, they have their big St. Patrick's Day Festival that's coming up uh the 14th through through the through the 17th. Yeah, through the 17th. And you're gonna be playing a set with your son. Is that what you told me? Is that correct?
SPEAKER_00Oh no, he he'll be playing with us uh um he'll be playing with us at First Friday for folk music, but not uh not at Wexford. Oh, okay. Yeah, uh that's just a little too wild. I don't want to bring him into that atmosphere. He's he's 17. Oh wow.
SPEAKER_02How long has he been playing?
SPEAKER_00Um he plays the Irish drum, which is called the Beau Ron. He's he's been playing it for two or three years. It's not the most complicated instrument, he but he's he's good at it, and we bought him a there's an Irish guy who moved to the Netherlands who uh makes them custom, and we we had one made for him for a professional quality drum made for Christmas a couple years ago. Oh well. So you know, I think he really likes uh you know getting up and playing with his dad. You know, so those are core memories. I'm sure. Yeah. Um but he he may come out and see us at Wexford, but uh what they'll do basically is um from the 14th to the 17th, they out in the courtyard in front of Wexford, they're gonna bring in a big professional festival stage and uh with you know, probably a million dollar sound system. Oh wow um and uh you know they have um and it's actually such a big thing. They actually last year had two sound men running everything. Um so this the schedule is on their website, but um there's acts all day long from the 14th to the 17th. Dan and I are playing um excuse me, we're playing on the 16th and the 17th, um, where the last Irish music act of the day before on both days before they turn it over to the rock bands. Um so on the sixteenth we're playing a long set um five o'clock to seven thirty. Um that should be pretty fun. On St. Patrick's Day we're playing a short set, um just uh six o'clock to seven fifteen. You know, I'm used to playing twelve-hour gigs on St. Patrick's Day, yeah. Uh where you have to really pace yourself. When you're only playing for 75 minutes, you can just let it go and leave it all out there. So I'm really looking forward to that.
SPEAKER_02Now what's um I don't even know what day is the actual parade on this year, do you know?
SPEAKER_00It's Tuesday the 17th.
SPEAKER_02It is actually on the day of? Okay.
SPEAKER_00It always is unless uh unless it falls on a Sunday. Weekend or something like that. And then sometimes they change it. If it's on a Saturday, they leave it, but you would think I would know after all these years, but uh Yeah. Um it's usually during Lent and the the Bishop The Bishop has the ability to give a dispensation for St. Patrick's Day when it's on a Sunday, so that you don't have to follow the Lent rules, but they usually refuse. So they reschedule the parade for a different day.
SPEAKER_02Uh so what so the 17th, what day is that gonna be? That's gonna be a Tuesday. Tuesday, okay. Alright, so it should be a somewhat smaller parade, I guess, being that it's on a Tuesday.
SPEAKER_00Um but it depends on uh who comes in from out of town. Yeah, you know. This is the second, but uh since uh but it's a lot bigger than last year. Yeah, because uh it last year it was not a four-day event. Um it was maybe maybe two or three days um tops. Um so now it's a four-day thing. And they have uh the stepdancers coming in and um rock bands, out of town, Irish flavored rock bands coming in and all you know, the people who wear all the kilts and the costumes and all that stuff.
SPEAKER_02Well they're certain they're certainly promoting the hell out of it. I mean, we have it on our calendar at savannajames.com. You can go to the live music calendar and look at the um the event that it's broken down by who's gonna play what what day and what time. Um so um and then you would also mention briefly, uh you said the um the first Friday folk show or what we're first Friday for folk music is uh Friday, March 6th, if this comes out in time.
SPEAKER_00And uh that's at the first Presbyterian church diagonally across the street from Savannah Arts Academy, which is where I work. Um for now. Uh my high school counselor career is winding down, and I have not announced my exact w retirement date, but we're counting in months and not years at this point.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I was gonna ask you, so you you uh you're gonna be leaving us uh eventually in a couple years. You advance the plan, right?
SPEAKER_00The worst kept secret in Savannah is that my um my wonderful um new wife, who is well not new anymore, but we got married in 2022, but um she's from Massachusetts like I am in Cape Cod, Massachusetts is basically our happy place. And uh if all works out well in 2028, we'll be moving there. And if not then it'll be somewhat thereafter. Um and uh I'm really looking forward to the challenge of breaking into the very competitive music scene there. And um, you know, just uh that's just where we want to spend our retirement years. So um when I'm done with high school counseling, I'm I'm hoping I just get a little dinky part-time job and and focus more on music and uh both try to go out with a bang here and and get myself ready to compete for for a spot on Cape Cod where hopefully they'll make room for me.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, well, I was gonna say until then you're just gonna be going out and gigging and giving it all your all here in Savannah.
SPEAKER_00I mean, if if things go the way we want them to at Wexford, we could get back to uh where I was before COVID where I was pulling 64 gigs a year. Um we could get we could get somewhat close to that, which is it's a lot for someone with a stressful day job.
SPEAKER_02But do you do solo as well or is it just always with Dan and the duo for Galway?
SPEAKER_00I do play solo, but um not often. Yeah. But uh the you know, the there's a place in Bluffton, a new restaurant, and they called me up the other day, and they don't have the space or the budget for two people, so I'm playing there on the 21st solo, you know.
SPEAKER_02In the janitor's closet and then on the being that they don't have the space or just pick a corner, yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's a very small place. I went there for lunch yesterday and it's uh it's tiny. What's it called? It's called the Main Cafe is a woman from Boston who runs it.
SPEAKER_02Okay, of course. Yeah, it would be.
SPEAKER_00I recognized her accent as as soon as I got on the phone with her. She sounded exactly like I used to.
SPEAKER_02Well, uh Michael, uh, I appreciate your time today. Thanks so much uh for talking with us. Um before we let you go, uh tell us uh how people can find you online.
SPEAKER_00Oh, thank you for reminding me of that. Yes, um so uh specifically to to help me um have time to set up a nice website before we move to Cape Cod to present myself to the people up there. I made a nice website at mcirishfolksinger.com. It's my initials, mcirishfolksinger.com. Uh the schedule is there and it notes whether it's a goway rogues gig, whether you know, people like my son Liam are joining us, whether it's solo, whether it's Micah Bond and me, or whatever whatever it is. But uh we will keep updating everything there.
SPEAKER_02Alright, and then on Facebook they can follow you in Instagram, I assume.
SPEAKER_00Um yeah, you know, I don't really do much with Instagram, but uh but Facebook I'm active and what's the handle for Facebook? Um for uh for the Galloway Rogues, it's it's actually the old Seldom Sober page. I just changed the name, but the the uh the website address is still like Facebook.com slash seldom sober.
SPEAKER_02All right. Um so the slug of the URL is still um Seldom Sober, but it's the Galway Rogues. Right website. Okay.
SPEAKER_00I didn't want to lose we we we put a lot of money into Facebook advertising to get over a thousand followers, and I didn't want to lose them and start all over the city.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that that that SEO juice, that search opti engine optimization juice for you. You didn't want to give it up, yeah. Well, yeah, so again, Michael, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
SPEAKER_00Thank you for all you do for live music.
SPEAKER_02And uh so uh so yeah, so look forward to uh the Galway Rogues out and about, uh Debolation, Wexford. Hopefully that's uh monthly residency at Wexford coming up, and then definitely the Wexford uh Savannah St. Patrick's Day uh festival the fourteenth through the seventeenth coming up. And in the meantime, keep jamming, Savannah.