Lisgar O’Connor of the Erin Isles, Take 1

March is here and before nature can turn from grey, white and brown to green, one must pick up the guitars, give a boost to the P.A. system, get out there and celebrate St. Patrick’s day and the arrival of Spring.

This year Lisgar O’Connor played two St. Pat’s gigs. The first at the Tonik, the cool student coffeehouse of the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), on Taché Boulevard in Hull, on Thursday March 15.

We were invited by the lovely Marie-Josée, manager of the UQO’s students’ association’s coffeehouses. She got out the truc qui roule (what Bill managed to understand as the “rolling truck”) and let the folked-up duo in to entertain the student body.

And the student body responded well, showed up en masse and ready to party with the two guys who brought folked-up music to Ottawa.

Thank you Marie-Josée, Marc-André and all the fabulous students of UQO for the great evening of fun and music at the Tonik.