Playing for a live audience is very different (and so much more fulfilling) than studio work. Keep that in mind next time you come face to face with someone playing music for you!

And thanks to Rhymes with Orange for the image!

Back to our roots

A lot of people ask us about the tunes we play, how we started as a band, and how traditional Irish dancing got its start. Click the link for an entertaining and edifying history lesson about a historic and storied art form!

Slainte`!

Riggity Jig is going to the dogs!

And the cats, and bunnies, and straight to the dessert table too! We'll be playing for the Yolo County SPCA's delicious new fundraiser: Tails, Treasures and Tastings. June 5, 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm, at the Davis Senior Center, 646 A Street.

We will be playing 3:00-5:00, but come early and stay late!

Ready for a Sweet Time?

The Yolo County SPCA will host its first Tails, Treasures and Tastings, a community all-you-can-eat dessert event, on June 5, 2011. This community event will help raise money to assist in our continuing efforts to rescue homeless animals and place them in loving permanent homes. It also raises awareness of the issue of displaced animals and promotes responsible pet ownership.

Our Tails, Treasures and Tastings event will include a variety of desserts for individuals to enjoy, as well as board games to play, a children’s activity area and a silent auction. We want members of our city, university and extended communities to come together for a relaxing and fun event that also helps homeless animals.

Please come and enjoy!

When/Where? 2 pm-6 pm at Davis Senior Center, 646 A Street Davis, CA 95616

Raffle held at the end of the event- winners who have left will be contacted to claim their prize!

Admission is $10 per adult, $7.50 for students and seniors, and free for children under 7 years old. All proceeds go towards helping animals in need!

Admission will get you access to yummy deserts and a free raffle ticket. Additional raffle tickets are available for sale at the event, and we will have wonderful silent auction items waiting for your bid.

Buying a Ticket Now: You can buy your ticket at the door, but if you would like to buy your ticket ahead of time and be on our list of pre-paid guests, please feel free to use Donate Now through Pay Pal, or visit the Yolo SPCA Thrift Store and purchase tickets there. Be sure to specify that your donation is for tickets to this event (how many, and name of the person who will be there) so that we have you on our list. Please look for an email confirming that we have you on the list for the event; if you do not receive this email, please let us know.

A Little Less Wind, Please!

T-minus one week before the Highland Games at the Yolo County Fairgrounds in Woodland, and the north wind is blowing hard today. So hard that at the county 4-H Spring Show, two heifers and a Hampshire hog blew away before anyone had the sense to tie the rest them down.
Imagine if we'd had a few thousand kilts out here instead. And the bagpipes would be playing themselves. Ach, the din!
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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.

Friday, May 27

Saturday, May 28

Sunday, May 29

Monday, May 30

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!