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BBQ Best Road Trip Memphis TN HeidiTown 19

I am honored to be a guest blogger on the HeidiTown site and I hope to bring as much fun to my journey as Heidi does to hers. I will start by saying I’m no stranger to road trips and remember as a kid driving across Wyoming to see Thermopolis and the beauty of Yellowstone National Park.  After college, I took my new car across the USA to see Tennessee

The Elders to play all 3 days of the Rocky Mountain Irish Festival

It’s official, the Celtic rock band from Kansas City, The Elders, will again be  playing at this summer’s Rocky Mountain Irish Festival (formerly the Fort Collins Irish Festival). The Elders are the Mayor’s all-time favorite band. Learn more about them and hear their music at www.eldersmusic.com. For more information on the Rocky Mountain Irish Festival, and to purchase your tickets in advance, go to www.fortcollinsirishfestival.com. The festival runs August 27-29,

A HeidiTown Favorite, The Elders, coming to Colorado

The Mayor’s all-time favorite band is coming to Colorado this week!   The Elders are a arse-kickin’ Celtic rock band from Kansas City.   I’ve been following this band for years and have seen them live more times than I can count.   I’ve  also  written multiple articles about them for HeidiTown and the Berthoud Weekly Surveyor.   I’m a pusher too – I buy their CDs as presents, and

The Elders light up Colorado

Photo by H.M. Kerr-Schlaefer (The Elders at Loveland’s Foote Lagoon on  July 9, 2009)   Celtic music is in my blood, literally. My Scottish and Irish genes co-mingled to make me an undeniable descendant of the Celts, complete with red hair and freckles and a propensity to sunburn. From childhood the tunes of the fiddle, drum and bagpipe have inspired me to move. Throughout my life I have loaded up