We formed Schooner Fare in 1975, the very year that Billboard Magazine declared the folk music craze officially over. Never ones to let timing stand in our way, we plunged in anyway. When most folkies were thinking about careers in country or pop, we were crafting a repertoire of traditional and original folk songs. Some of the last bastions of folk in those days were the Irish Pubs, and we played in a good number of them from Halifax to Boston to Manhattan to Washington D.C., honing our stage act and breaking in our own original music. After a while, we became more in demand for the songs we had written than for the normal pubfare, but we have never stopped singing these wonderful Irish and Scottish songs. We have a great deal of affection for the Celtic songs collected by the Clancy family, the Makem family and many others, including ourselves while students in Europe and Canada. Every St. Patrick's Day we dig into the old song bag and sing many tunes from the time before our emergence as a group that would add its own songs to the folk tradition. This is a recording of our St. Patrick's Day show in 1994. We thought that in our twentieth year it was high time to share some of our favorites with with all of you. Happy Singing! Slainte, Chuck, Steve, and Tom