The Ferlies are a big ol' Celtic/Old Time/Bluegrass Band. We just finished our 4th year of Tuesday nights at the Double Dog Pub in Aspen. The Double Dog has become the Pitkin County Tavern, and you’ll find us there on occasional Tuesday nights.  Members include: Sandy Munro, Steve Johnson, Don Paine, April Paine, John Sommers,  Tammie Lane, and Trevor Mountjoy.

        Keep us in mind for your parties, as the ideal background music for most any event. We can do it with or without a PA system, and a variable number of musicians to suit the day.

Crowlin Ferlie background info... Just where did that name come from?

To A Louse
by Robert Burns

On seeing one on a lady's bonnet at church.

The following Burns' poem again has one line that is often quoted, though I doubt that most readers would have no idea where it comes from, or what the subject of the line refers to. It never ceases to amaze me in reading his poems, the depth of his understanding of human nature and his interpretation of it to the animal kingdom. It was one Sunday while sitting behind a young 'lady' in the church, that he noticed a head louse roaming over its domain in the bows and ribbons of her hat, and I assume her hair. Poor woman, little did she know that she would, with her head companion, be the subject of one of Burns' poems, on how we see ourselves, and how we think other people see us.

First verse only:

Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie?
Your impudence protects you sairly,
I canna say but ye strut rarely
Owre gauze and lace,
Tho' faith! I fear ye dine but sparely
On sic a place.

for the entire poem... http://www.worldburnsclub.com/poems/translations/552.htm

  email   or call Sandy Munro at 970 923 3384

  email   or call Sandy Munro at 970 923 3384

Here are a few tunes from the Ferlies. They were recorded  February 11, 2010 at the Haitian Benefit at the Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, Colorado.

                     The Merry Blacksmith Set                                                        The Island of Woods