If you’re heading out to the pubs Wednesday night, you might get a little whine along with your beer.
The “lads” of Irish Thunder Pipes and Drums are staging their annual Thanksgiving Eve pub crawl.
Just in case you’re an Irish Thunder pub crawl virgin and you have no idea how this works, it goes like this:
- You’re sitting on the stool, nursing your pint. Nothing special happening.
- The door of the bar bursts open.
- Twenty or so dudes in kilts and playing bagpipes march into the bar, playing “The Minstrel Boy” and “The Wearin’ o’ the Green.”
- Your dull, boring night at the pub just got a whole lot more interesting.
- You are so happy and grateful, you open your wallet and you dump a pile of money into a hat (or whatever else the Irish Thunder boys are passing around.)
I used to play drums with Irish Thunder, so I have done a pub crawl or two. I promise you, this raucous musical interlude will absolutely make your night.
Here’s where the band expects to show up, according to the Thunder’s Pete Hand:
“After getting together at the AOH Club House and getting things tuned up, the band will head over to Conshohocken around 6 p.m.
There, they will make stops at the American Pub, Flanigan’s Boat House, Guppy’s and Spam’s.
Then onto the bus down to Philly were they will plays some tunes at the Cherry Street Tavern, Fado’s, Irish Pub, Moriarty’s, Fergie’s, McGillin’s and the last stop, Tir na Nog.”
Hey, you were already planning on a trip to the ol’ watering hole, anyway, right? Might as well visit one where the pipes are calling. Between the beer and the tunes, you’ll get all misty for the old sod.
And, as they say around AOH Division 1 in Swedesburg, the band’s home: “Up the Thunder!”
(I think that’s meant to be a good thing.)
