St Patrick’s day 2018 was a big day for the band kicking off at 10:30am leading the St Patrick’s day parade through Brisbane city followed by numerous gigs around Brisbane CBD and Fortitude Valley finishing up at Finn McCool’s at 10:30pm  – a full 12 hours later! The band’s four new side drummers marched with us in this parade and did a great job.

The band performed three concerts in Queen Street Mall during the afternoon before splitting to meet the demand for appearances at Irish pubs throughout Brisbane CBD and Fortitude Valley.   There were three gigs in Mick O’Malley’s, one at Irish Murphy’s and three at Finn McCool’s.

The band all met up again in the Valley at Finn McCool’s for the last gig of the day.  It was a really big day with plenty of water and a few pints of Guinness in between gigs.

The band also won the inaugural Jan Dooley St. Patrick’s Day Parade Best Float Award!  Our band has been marching in every St Patrick’s Day parade in Brisbane since the first parade in 1990.

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The band was out at the Annual Festival Family day hosted by the Queensland Gaelic Football and Hurling Association on Sunday 12th March.   It was a great event with a lot to see and do including, novelty races, live Irish music (including QIAPB), Irish dancing and Gaelic sports exhibitions

In between the rain we led the teams onto the field for their games and performed a short concert – a great warm-up for us in preparation for the biggest day of the year for the band – St Patrick’s Day.

It was a great day out for the band with 4 learner drummers making their debut as well as being issued with their band uniform – well most of it! (Spot what’s missing).

The band was out in the Queens St Mall and Mick O’Malley’s – request for the evening included Happy Birthday for an 80th along with Loch Lomond.