Jalapeño Honey

Traditional and Contemporary Celtic Music

 For more information contact John Ivy Phone: 979-324-9834

 About the Band

•  Jalapeño Honey formed in the Fall of 2005 to fill a need in the Bryan-College Station community for a local live band for Contra Dance.  Best described as traditional New England community dancing, Contra Dance is a descendant of English country dancing and a predecessor to American square dancing.
   

• Traditional jigs, reels, and hornpipes from the Scots-Irish tradition on both sides of the Atlantic form our basic repertoire.  The band also performs traditional squares, waltzes, polkas and other types of couples dances.
   

• The members of Jalapeño Honey share a love of all kinds of music, and since founding the group they have branched out from performing at Contra Dances to participating in various festivals and playing in local venues, including solo or duo performances.
   

• Professionally, each of the musicians enjoys success in non-musical professions, while each brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in performance from a variety of cultures and instruments. 
   

• In addition to performing, Evelyn also writes and arranges the music for the group.  

The Musicians:

Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni Accordion, Celtic Harp, Pedal Harp

Evelyn is the Head of the Department of Veterinary Integrative Sciences and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She studied classical harp with Gayel Gibson at the University of Texas at El Paso and Laurie Buchanan at UT San Antonio. She was selected as Harper of the Day at three recent Scottish harp competitions:  the Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games and the Ohio Scottish Games in 2004, as well as the Stone Mountain Highland Games in 2005. She has published numerous harp arrangements of traditional tunes with Afghan Press and is past President of the Scottish Harp Society of America.

Renata Myers Guitar

Renata, a stay-home mom, learned to play the guitar as a child in her native Brazil. While living overseas for 22 years, she taught English as a second language and had the opportunity to play various music styles such as bossa nova, Latin American folk, and contemporary African tunes with groups from several countries. Performing on rhythm guitar with Jalapeño Honey has been a very fulfilling experience for her.

Eden Schmeichel Flute
	Eden is a Eden is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice. Eden has been playing the flute for 26 years having studied early on with Ervin Monroe, Principle flutist with the Detroit Symphony, and later for a year at the Royal Academy of Music in London. For the past several years she has enjoyed playing casually and credits Jalapeño Honey with reviving a love of performance.

John Ivy Fiddle, Mandolin

John is a biologist currently working as a Research Development Officer in the Office of the Vice President for Research at Texas A&M University. During his youth, he studied viola and switched to fiddle in his 20s following his introduction to traditional music. He was instrumental in organizing and performing at New England Contra Dance series on Long Island, New York and Oahu, Hawaii. John also had played cittern and percussion with the medieval-Renaissance ensemble Heartsease.

Recent Performances:

OUR NEXT PERFORMANCE:

Coffee House
Saturday, May 26
8:30 pm
(opening act at 7 pm)
 
Location:
Unitarian Church
305 Wellborn Road
College Station, Texas 77840
 
Traditional jigs, reels, and hornpipes from the Scots-Irish tradition
as well as waltzes, polkas, klezmer and choro played on accordion, harp, guitar, flute, fiddle, and clarinet.
 
Directions from Houston:

• Approach College Station from the south on Hwy 6.

• On the outskirts of the city, when Hwy 6 splits into Bypass and Business, follow Business 6 (aka Texas Ave S).

• At the second traffic light (Walmart), turn left onto FM 2818 (aka Harvey Mitchell Pkwy).

• Travel about 3 miles and just before the railroad track, turn right onto Wellborn Rd.

• After about 1.5 miles, watch on the right side for the Unitarian Fellowship sign and parking area.
  
  OUR CURRENT REPERTOIRE

  Reels	Jigs	Waltzes
  Absent Minded Man Blair Atholl The Dancing Bear Drowsy Maggie Dubuque Father Kelly’s Flowers of Edinburgh Green Mountain Petronella Julia Delaney Julianne Johnson June Apple Kitchen Girl Lamplighter’s Hornpipe Liza Jane Morpeth Rant Old French Old Grey Cat Over the Waterfall Petronella Pumpkin Creek Rickett’s Hornpipe Road to Boston Rocky Mountain Goat Roxburgh Castle St. Anne’s Reel Soldier’s Joy Spanish Ladies Staten Island Tipsy Parson Waves of Tory Whiskey before Breakfast	Balcomie House Bonnie Dundee Calliope House Coleraine Connaught Man’s Rambles Craigellachie Lasses The Gobby-O The Golden Valley Greensleeves Indian Point Kesh Jig Lanigan’s Ball Lillibulero Maggie Brown’s Favorite Marchioness of Huntly’s Favorite Jig Merrily Kiss the Quaker’s Wife Morrison’s Jig Pantheon Rory O’More Tobin’s Favorite Top of Cork Road	The Farewell Waltz Ashokan Farewell Glenda’s Waltz If Ever You Were Mine Leona Tuttle Margaret’s Waltz Mountain House Si Beag, Si Mor A Starry Night in Shetland Tombigbee Waltz Hole in the Wall

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  Updated May 22, 2007.