Culann's Hounds
Culann's Hounds are a traditional Irish folk band from San Francisco, California, United States. Founded in 1999 by Steve Gardner and Michael Kelleher as The Irish Bastards, the band began playing gigs and soon adopted the more broadly appealing name. Origins The name Culann's Hounds derives from the Irish folk story of Cuchulainn, a great Irish hero chronicled in the Táin Bó Cúailnge, Tain. Cuchulainn, meaning the Hound of Culann, earned his name after killing (in self-defense) a fierce guard dog owned by the blacksmith Culann. The boy repaid the smith by guarding his house until a new dog could be raised. Culann's Hounds played their first public gig in spring of 1999 at the Blackthorn Tavern in San Francisco. Though initially sparsely attended, the up-tempo music attracted a crowd, establishing a tradition of Sunday afternoon gigs, sometimes called the Hounds' Sunday Beer Social. Culann's Hounds' popularity grew and in 2001 they recorded and released their first, eponymous ...
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San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of California cities by population, fourth most populous in California and List of United States cities by population, 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the County statistics of the United States, fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and '' ...
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Chris Thomas (drummer)
Chris Thomas may refer to: * Chris Thomas (American football) (born 1971), former wide receiver in the NFL * Chris Thomas (basketball player) (born 1982), former men's basketball player for the University of Notre Dame * Chris Thomas (basketball coach) (born 1980), American basketball coach * Chris Thomas (cricketer) (born 1959), English cricketer * Chris Thomas (record producer) (born 1947), music producer * Chris Thomas King (born 1962), American blues musician who debuted as Chris Thomas * Christopher Thomas (1818–1879), American politician and lawyer * Chris D. Thomas (born 1959), professor of biology * Chris Thomas Devlin, American screenwriter * Christopher Thomas (born 1949), American mass murderer who killed 10 people in the Palm Sunday massacre See also * * * Christian Thomas (other) * Cris Thomas, American white hat hacker and cyber security researcher * Kris Thomas Kris Thomas (born December 17, 1984) is an American singer. He competed in Season 4 of ...
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Bodhrán
The bodhrán (, ; plural ''bodhráin'' or ''bodhráns'') is a frame drum used in Irish music ranging from in diameter, with most drums measuring . The sides of the drum are deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side (synthetic heads or other animal skins are sometimes used). The other side is open-ended for one hand to be placed against the inside of the drum head to control the pitch and timbre. One or two crossbars, sometimes removable, may be inside the frame, but this is increasingly rare on modern instruments. Some professional modern bodhráns integrate mechanical tuning systems similar to those used on drums found in drum kits. It is usually with a hex key that the bodhrán skins are tightened or loosened depending on the atmospheric conditions. History Seán Ó Riada declared the bodhrán to be the native drum of the ancient Celts (as did bodhrán maker Paraic McNeela), suggesting that it was possibly used originally for winnowing or wool dying, with a musical hist ...
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Jonathon Tait
Jonathon is a given name. It is an often used alternative spelling of "Jonathan", as is " Johnathan". Notable people named Jonathon include: * Jonathon Brandmeier (born 1956), a Chicago radio personality and musician * Jonathon Morris (born 1960), English actor and former television presenter * Jonathon Simmons (born 1989), American professional basketball player * Jonathon Young (born 1973), Canadian actor * Jonathon Porritt (born 1950), a leading British environmentalist and writer * Jonathon Blum (born 1989), American professional ice hockey defenseman, currently playing with HC Sochi of the Kontinental Hockey *Jonathon Webb Jonathon Webb (born 10 December 1983) is an Australian former professional racing driver and team owner of Team Sydney, who once co-drove alongside Fabian Coulthard in the No. 19 Holden ZB Commodore for the Pirtek Enduro Cup. In 2016, Webb and ...

Tim Hill (musician)
Timothy or Tim or Timmy Hill may refer to: * Tim Hill (politician) (b. 1936), American politician in Washington state * Tim Hill (director) (b. 1958), American screenwriter and film director * Tim Hill (basketball) (b. 1976), American basketball player * Timothy Hill (politician) (b. 1981), Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. * Tim Hill (baseball) (b. 1990), American baseball player * Timmy Hill (b. 1993), American racing driver See also * Captain Timothy Hill House Captain Timothy Hill House is a historic home located at Chincoteague Island, Accomack County, Virginia. It was built about 1800, and moved to its present location in 1980 when faced with demolition. It is a -story dwelling that was built using ...

Flute
The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel–Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist or flutist. Flutes are the earliest known identifiable musical instruments, as paleolithic examples with hand-bored holes have been found. A number of flutes dating to about 53,000 to 45,000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Jura region of present-day Germany. These flutes demonstrate that a developed musical tradition existed from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe.. Citation on p. 248. * While the oldest flutes currently known were found in Europe, Asia, too, has ...
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Tin Whistle
The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is a type of fipple flute, putting it in the same class as the recorder, Native American flute, and other woodwind instruments that meet such criteria. A tin whistle player is called a whistler. The tin whistle is closely associated with Irish traditional music and Celtic music. Other names for the instrument are the flageolet, English flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, tin flageolet, or Irish whistle (also ga, feadóg stáin or feadóg). History The tin whistle in its modern form is from a wider family of fipple flutes which have been seen in many forms and cultures throughout the world. In Europe, such instruments have a long and distinguished history and take various forms, of which the most widely known are the recorder, tin whistle, Flabiol, Txistu and tabor pipe. Predecessors Almost all primitive cultures had a type of fipple flute, and it is most likely the first pitched flu ...
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Kevin McDonough
Kevin () is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; mga, Caoimhghín ; sga, Cóemgein ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ). The variant ''Kevan'' is anglicized from , an Irish diminutive form.''A Dictionary of First Names''. Oxford University Press (2007) s.v. "Kevin". The feminine version of the name is (anglicised as ''Keeva'' or ''Kweeva''). History Saint Kevin (d. 618) founded Glendalough abbey in the Kingdom of Leinster in 6th-century Ireland. Canonized in 1903, he is one of the patron saints of the Archdiocese of Dublin. Caomhán of Inisheer, the patron saint of Inisheer, Aran Islands, is properly anglicized ''Cavan'' or ''Kevan'', but often also referred to as "Kevin". The name was rarely given before the 20th century. In Ireland an early bearer of the anglicised name was Kevin Izod O'Doherty (1823–1905) a Young Irelander and politician; it gained popularity from the Gaelic revival of the ...
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Uilleann Pipes
The uilleann pipes ( or , ) are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland. Earlier known in English as "union pipes", their current name is a partial translation of the Irish language terms (literally, "pipes of the elbow"), from their method of inflation. There is no historical record of the name or use of the term ''uilleann pipes'' before the 20th century. It was an invention of Grattan Flood and the name stuck. People mistook the term 'union' to refer to the 1800 Act of Union; this is incorrect as Breandán Breathnach points out that a poem published in 1796 uses the term 'union'. The bag of the uilleann pipes is inflated by means of a small set of bellows strapped around the waist and the right arm (in the case of a right-handed player; in the case of a left-handed player the location and orientation of all components are reversed). The bellows not only relieve the player from the effort needed to blow into a bag to maintain pressure, they also allow relatively dry ...
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Conall O'Raghallaigh
Conall may refer to the following: Persons *Saint Conal, 5th century Irish Saint * Conall mac Taidg, Scottish king *Conall Cremthainne, Irish king * Conall Grant (died 718), Irish King * Conall Gulban, Irish king *Conall Crandomna, Scottish king * Conall Guthbinn, Irish king * Conall mac Comgaill, Scottish king *Conall mac Áedáin, Scottish King Mythology * Conall Cernach, Irish mythic warrior * Conall Collamrach, legendary Irish king Other *Conall Cra Bhuidhe Conall Cra Bhuidhe or Conall Yellowclaw is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in ''Popular Tales of the West Highlands''. Origin Campbell lists his informant as James Wilson, blind fiddler in Islay. Synopsis Conall Cra Bhuid ...

Frank Jordan (musician)
Francis Michael Jordan (born February 20, 1935) is an American politician and former police chief, who served as mayor of San Francisco from 1992 to 1996. He is a Democrat. Early life and education Jordan was born in San Francisco in 1935 and graduated from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory High School in 1953. He studied political science and government at the University of San Francisco during his time on the police force and graduated in 1975. Police career and Chief of Police Before becoming mayor, Jordan served as the Chief of the San Francisco Police Department from 1986 until 1990, at which point he resigned to run for mayor. He joined the force in 1957 and was named Chief of Police by then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein in 1986. Mayor of San Francisco Jordan succeeded Art Agnos as the Mayor of San Francisco from 1992, until 1996. Jordan continued Agnos' campaign against the city's chapter of Food Not Bombs and introduced a controversial program called Matrix which aim ...
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Alan Kaufman (musician)
Alan, Allan or Allen Kaufman may refer to: Writers *Allan Kaufman, scenarist for the 1957 film '' Hell Canyon Outlaws'' *Alan S. Kaufman (born 1944), psychologist and educator *Alan Kaufman (writer), novelist and poet active since 1980s Others *Allen Kaufman (born 1933), chess master * Allan Kaufman, political figure who lost to Dorothy Dobbie Dorothy Ina Elgiva Dobbie (born January 5, 1945) is a Canadian businesswoman and former politician. She served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Dobbie was a publisher b ... in 1988 See also * Kaufman (surname) {{hndis, Kaufman, Alan ...
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