Jigging for the Arts: Riggity Jig plays for Acme Theatre fundraiser, Friday, April 8, 6-8 @ the Davis Food Co-op

Like the title says, we'll be playing Friday, April 8, 6-8 pm at the Davis Food Co-op as a fund raiser for the Acme Theatre Company. Quaff some tasty brews from North Coast Brewing and help the talented performers at Acme Theatre raise some money. Hey, it's for art! Their next show is The Servant of Two Masters, by Carlo Goldoni.

Silvio is in love with Clarice. Clarice is in love with Silvio. All is well, until Beatrice (dressed as a man) arrives in town disguised as Clarice’s former fiancé. Meanwhile, Florindo is in search of his lady-love – Beatrice! The slapstick gets stickier as Truffaldino struggles to serve two masters at once. Can love triumph over mistaken identities, confusion and a roguish servant’s insatiable appetite? Sounds like a typical rehearsal for the band, but we are sure that All's Well That Ends Well!

This free production is fun for the whole family. A pre-show picnic dinner will be available beginning at 5:30pm. Bring your appetite, a blanket or lawn chair, and plenty of layers!

Memorial Day Weekend Picnic Dinner at 5:30pm. Performance at 7:00pm.

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March Madness! And not in a hoop shooting basketball sort of way.

It's that time of year when the musicians (and we use that term loosely) of Riggity Jig honor our Irish roots. Join us for our tenth annual St. Patrick's Day performance at Little Prague on Thursday, March 17. 330 G St., in Davis. Like you didn't know where Little Prague is! And to get you in the mood, we are playing again at our favorite dog friendly thrift store, the Yolo County SPCA Thrift Store for this month's Second Friday Art About. Read all about the various arty goings-on in this note from the Davis Life Magazine. That's Friday, March 11, 6-8 at 920 3rd St., in Davis. Hope to see you there!

"May I have more, sir?"

Visitors to this year's Burns Supper at Little Prague Bohemian Restaurant surprised us all by finishing off a 5-pound haggis brought in especially for the occasion. The line for a helping of the steaming comestible stretched the length of the bar, and a few people even came back for seconds.

Guest speaker Tom Mckeith did the honors of slicing and serving it up, which is only proper since it was Tom who read Burns's "Address to a Haggis" and Tom's own cousin, MacPhairson Clonglocketty Angus M'Clan, who caught the haggis in a rabbit snare last week in Glasgow's Linn Park. Following long family tradition, he transported the cleaned and dressed food product with him on a trip to Sacramento last Thursday by packing it in an ice chest marked "organ donor." Which has never caused any trouble at Customs, since when officials demand to see inside the cooler, that's exactly what it looks like.

Thanks to everyone who came out Friday night to sample the music, foods, and certainly the drink of Scotland, and to celebrate the Bard's 252nd birthday. May we remember his life and his verse for as many more!

Robert Burns and the elusive Haggis

It's coming up on January 25th, which means Robert Burns Night is fast approaching. To celebrate, go out and recite your favorite poem to someone, and keep an eye out for the wily Haggis!


Also keep an eye out for men in kilts! Maybe check in at Little Prague on Friday, January 28, as Riggity Jig rocks the house, along with emcee Tom McKeith (all the way from Clyde Bank!) and piper Erik Leiken. More info at the Little Prague site. Check the comments for links.

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Just finished from playing for a rainy 39th Street Halloween Street Party. Great neighborhood, great spirits (living and dead), despite all the wet. Thanks for having us!

Now back home to dry off all those sound cables . . .
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Re-sale Shop Re-visited

Riggity Jig returns to the Yolo County SPCA Thrift Store on Saturday, September 25. We'll be recycling our old material and making it new, all in the the spirit of the day's Re-Cycle, Re-Use, & Re-New Festival! Last time we played there I saw no fewer than four plaid kilts on the racks. All were in the women's and girls' department--and a few certainly belonged there--but a fellah's got to start somewhere, eh?

You can show a bit o' knee, or just show up. You're sure to find something that'll surprise you or bring back fond memories. Maybe both, if it happens to be that hideous family heirloom from your Great Aunt Zelda that vanished from the mantelpiece last week, thanks to your significant other. Won't she be surprised when it shows up at home once again!

P.S. Look for a subset of the band on Saturday morning from 9:30 to 11:00 at the Woodland Farmer's Market in Freeman Park on Main Street, between 4th and 6th Streets. Fantastic local produce, and plenty of free parking on the Court Street side of the park. Yum-yum, eat 'em up!

Not Your Grandmother's LGM

Somewhere on the far side of the sun, there's a land that's never green on a little piece of floating space junk no human eye has ever seen. This nameless shard follows the same orbital path our dear Earth, but six months ahead of us, give or take a few days (or six months behind us, depending on how you look at things).

And on that bit of debris, the result of some cosmic collision or engineer's miscalculation, there's a small cadre of little would-be green men like this fellow who are doing their best to celebrate, on this very day, their own March 17, and the sainted memory of he who brought Christianity to, and expelled snakes from, a lovely green island on a planet they themselves will never see, but only sing of in sentimental, sappy ballads, rasped into the thin, dry atmosphere of their tiny, rocky home.

In honor of these stalwart, possibly misguided, and almost certainly nonexistent revelers, we call on you to join Riggity Jig for our umpteenth-annual Half-way to St. Pat's celebration, starting at 6 pm on Friday, September 10 at Little Prague Bohemian Restaurant in Davis. We'll be playing a festive assortment of jigs, reels, and other Irish favorites till 9 pm.

Call Little Prague at 530-756-1107 to make sure you get a table close by the band!