About The Eddies

Welcome!

Here is What is Coming Up or Happened Recently:

Sunday, May 26 - Annual Potluck and Free Concert
Details TBA - Always fun
except when we get busted.

June 8 in the morning - Scenic Lowertown
St. Paul Farmer's Market (always fun)

July 19 - Friday in the p.m.
Chisago City Farmer's Market (first time but probably fun)

July 20 - in the late a.m.
Mill City Farmer's Market (this one is always fun)

July 21 - in the p.m.
Love Tree Farm - Pizza by the Pond - always fun

Minnesota Irish Fair - always fun
Friday, August 9 - Drinking beer at the Fair

Saturday, August 10 - Workshop TBA

(fun + educational)

Sunday August 11
Workshop TBA (fun+ educational)
2:30-3:30pm - Angry Orchard River Stage
5:00 - 5:30pm - Pub Stage

September 7 - in the morning, dontcha know.
Mill City Farmer's Market - details TBA (fun)

September 8
Saint Paul Bike Classic (always fun)


Also This Summer - Yes, there will be summer.
More Farmer's Markets
Dodge Nature Center possibly
Sheep Farm or two


ITALIAN TOUR UPDATE:
We gave up on the audience with Pope Benny, because he is retired. We are not sure about Pope Frankie, but he seems to be doing better than most.


The Eddies' latest (and first) CD is now available!
"Hold Fast" - Songs of Work, Love, & Death: Volume 1.

Check out the Online Liner Notes and How To Purchase.

See The Eddies Recorded Live and In Person on Digital Tape Now.


Eddies are whirlpools or currents that run contrary to the mainstream ... that's us!


Quotable Quotes Department

"...I soon got used to this singing, for the sailors never touched a rope without it. Sometimes, when no one happened to strike up, and the pulling, whatever it might be, did not seem to be getting forward very well, the mate would always say, 'Come men, can't any of you sing? Sing now and raise the dead.' And then some one of them would begin, and if every man's arms were as much relieved as mine by the song, and he could pull as much better as I did, with such a cheering accompaniment, I am sure the song was well worth the breath expended on it. It is a great thing in a sailor to know how to sing well, for he gets a great name by it from the officers, and a good deal of popularity among his shipmates. Some sea captains, before shipping a man, always ask him whether he can sing out at a rope."

-Herman Melville, Redburn, chapter 9 (1849)


Where We've Been

What We Sing

How to Book Us

Second Monday Shanty Sings
at The Dubliner
in St. Paul


Here are The Eddies at the 13th Annual.

Bob Walser's Latest CD:
The Eddies sing on some
of these fine numbers.




CD Now Available!


The Eddies' CD has been featured on the
Maritime Heritage Network.


News of The Eddies:
Send an email to
theeddies at earthlink.net
and ask to be put on the list!


This is the official web site of
The Eddies on the River:
the Book Club that became a singing group
on the Mighty Mississippi.

Updated somewhat recently.