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Floyd
started
playing
Celtic
music
about
six
months
ago
after
retiring
from
being
the
chief
engineer
on a
heavy
freight
train
running
between
Galveston
and
Montreal.
His deft
fingers
on the
control
panel
play a
key part
in his
ability
to pluck
his way
about
the
cittern
and
bouzouki.
His
initial
interest
in
bouzouki
came
about
because
he
couldn't
spell
it. His
dulcit
tones
are
strengthen
by years
of
yelling
"More
coal!"
to lazy
coal
shovelers.
His
dream is
to move
from
cittern
to steel
drum and
become a
Jamaican
drummer
on a
beach
somewhere.
Sarah
cultivated
her love
of Irish
music
while in
the
Convent
of St.
Mary
Meade in
San
Bernadino,
California.
She also
developed
a
healthy
love of
potted
plants.
Discovering
that her
voice
could no
longer
be
contained
to "How
Great
Thou
Art" she
explored
a
variety
of
musical
forms.
After
being
caught
singing
hip-hop
tunes in
the
sanctuary,
the
Mother
Superior
sent her
packing.
Her
wanderings
took her
to
Montreal
where
she met
Floyd on
the
passenger
car he
was
taking
to
Chicago.
Inseparable
ever
since,
their
music
will
endure
forever.
Leah's
dedication
to
Celtic
music
came
about
one
morning
while
she was
preparing
breakfast
for her
family
when she
experienced
the
miracle
and her
toaster
turned
into a
12-string
guitar.
Sure
that
this was
a sign
that she
was
destined
to
dedicate
her life
to
music,
she
spent
night
and day
practicing
the
guitar
until
she
developed
a set of
painful
callouses,
at which
time she
discovered
her
beautiful
singing
voice.
(OK, the
first
instance
of it
was more
of a
screech
than a
melody,
but she
developed
it
quickly.)
She met
Floyd
and
Sarah
one
afternoon
by
chance
at a
local
pharmacy
(where
Floyd
was
refilling
his
psych
meds)
and the
three of
them
quickly
became
friends
and
inseparable
(which
often
causes a
few
complications
with
their
family
lives). |

