Saturday, October 9, 2010

HArp & Shamrock Benefit in KCMO Next Month

Well hello again, it's been a while. If you are one of our local friends, we hope to see you out & about at our shows this Month, you can check our schedule at www.TheLangersBall.com/gigs.html but we'll also be heading back to the Kansas City Area at the beginning of November for a great cause.  We'll be performing at The Harp & Shamrock Benefit called "Shamrockfest" raising money to help kids hear!  Hope you can make it out if you live in the area. For more info you can visit www.harpandshamrockclub.org

Monday, August 2, 2010

"Ships Are Sailing" in TRFT DC Showcase TONIGHT!

Hey everyone!  Please check out IRFT Celtic Radio Tonight!  Their CD showcase is featuring 3 CD, The Sligo Rags CD "the night before the morning after", Iona "A Celebration of 20" and our new disk "Ships Are Sailing". IRFT has been a great supporter of The Langer's Ball and we can't thank them enough for that!  So click over & check out this showcase tonight and hear all 3 CD's in their entirety! 

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Buy our CD at The Celtic Croft!


We were just included in the Celtic Croft Catalog.  These guys have a great catalog of Kilts and kilt accessories, and Celtic themed items, including lots of housewares and musical instruments.  They also are getting into Celtic Music, and we are happy that they choose us as one of their bands they'd like to carry.  Here is what they had to say about our latest release "Ships Are Sailing":
"If you like your Celtic tunes served up with plenty of energy and heart this is the place to start. Mixing acoustic guitar, penny whistle, banjo, and accordion with drums and electric bass, Langer's Ball creates music that will get you singing along and your toes tapping. Ships Are Sailing, their second CD covers a lot of ground, from old school pub sing-alongs to a nice cover of The Pogues "Rainy Night In Soho. Give them a listen. We think you will agree."

Thanks to the Celtic Croft, be sure to check out their website at http://www.kilts-n-stuff.com/

Monday, March 22, 2010

We Did It! You Did It!

Thanks to everyone who voted in the SLBC Battle Of The Bands first round! You put us in the top! We finished in 5th, and that's all we needed to do to get into the final round. We need you now more than ever. so stay tuned for a new video, and a new barage of emails and myspace & face book shouts from us. But for tonight - THANK YOU!!!
Stay tuned, the next round is right around the corner.

Monday, March 15, 2010

We Need Your Help!

Hey everyone, we are entered in an Online Battle Of The Bands sponsored by the Strangford Lough Brewing Company, we entered out video for the song "The Shores Of Botany Bay".  The winner recieves an all-expense paid trip to Ireland to perform in a Music Festival in Belfast, N. Ireland this July!  The stakes are high, and we're up against some stiff competition, so every vote counts!  Please go to their webpage and cast your vote for The Langer's Ball (listed as "Langers Ball"), you can only vote once, so please help us out!  Voting ends at Midnight EST on 22nd March 2010, so don't wait!

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Thanks for Coming to the Music Video Shoot


A Big thanks to everyone who came out last Thursday to Shamrocks in St. Paul, we had an amazing time!  We got some great photos and video footage, even more than we had planned, which we'll be sharing with you real soon.  Thanks to Finnegan's Irish Amber and The North Star Roller Girls for helping with the event, and thats to Mike & Ted at Shamrocks for letting us take over the club and rock out some fun Celtic Rock, Langer's style, for a few hours!  Now we are back to the grind playing all of our favorite pubs, and gearing up for St. Patrick's Day.
Be sure to join us on St. Paddy's at Shamrocks again, where we'll be recording the show, who knows, maybe we'll get our 3rd CD out of the deal... but more on that later.
As for now, we just want to extend a big thanks to the gang of friends, fans and family that helped us make the event a big success, we hope to keep seeing you out at all our shows!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Celtic MP3 Magazine reviews "Ships Are Sailing"

Review: "Ships Are Sailing" by The Langer’s Ball
Written by Marc Gunn on 28 January 2010
Artist: The Langer’s Ball
Album: Ships Are Sailing
Year produced: 2009

"The penny whistle plays out in my memory as I write this review. Hannah Rediske’s mad whistlin’ and accordion skills blend in perfect union with the vocals of Michael Sturm. Since their start in 2007, The Langer’s Ball has been steadily gaining the attention deserved of a pub band sensation. This second offering from the duo, Ships are Sailing, is not a track list of sea shanties, but a compilation where Ireland goes a little Old Country, a little folk…and more. The work is a seamless progression of contemporary, Trad and original Celtic tunes that extends beyond Rediske’s customary penny whistle, recorders and accordion and Sturm’s guitar, mandolin and harmonica. Drums, bass, electric guitar make guest appearances with the guest musicians to play them.

There is an ease to the strength in Sturm’s voice, so much so that his singing often evokes a spoken quality. With the presence to be deemed a patriarch of ballads, Sturm can take on the persona of IRA folk hero Fergal O’Hanlon in a modified version of “Patriot Game” or morph into a chimney sweep with questionable intentions in “Sam Hall”.

The song selection is diverse. Langer’s “Titanic” could liven up the gypsy vardo of any given Renaissance Faire. The music has such a Romani melodic cantor, patrons wouldn’t bat an eye. The tragic story is told with that great Sturm quality of song-spake, but the star of this song is the piano accordion played masterfully by Rediske.

From the hauntingly beautiful feminine vocal echo in “I’m a Man You Don’t Meet Everyday” to the ease-out-of-your-chair and tap-your-boot pickup in “The Tinker’s Fiddle”, Ships Are Sailing is worthy of a listen, and you may just find that you miss the music, especially that gorgeous penny whistle, once the songs play through."

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Want to be in a Video with The Langer's Ball?

Hey everyone, we are shooting a music video on February 11th, 2010 at Shamrocks in St. Paul.  C'mon down to check out the show, get some great drink specials, maybe get some giveaways and be in our music video!  Hannah, Charley & I will play our regular Shamrocks show from 6-9pm then we will bring out the full band for some St. Paul Style Celtic Rock from 9:00-10:00!  At around 10:00pm we'll start shooting the video, and maybe play a few more songs to break up the shoot.  It should be a fun night, Finnegans Irish Amber will be at the event, and we'll be gining away T-shirts, CD's and other stuff!  It's also Charleys 40th Birthday Too!  So come down and have a ball!

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Special Mention from Shite 'N' Onions for best of '09


What a great day!  Shite 'n' Onions just came out with their best of 2009 top 10, and although we weren't in the top 10, we were given a special mention, which is a huge honor for us.  Thanks again to them, and Paddy Rock and everyone this year!

We made PaddyRock.com's "Best Of" list again!


Great news, we just got word that our new CD, "Ships Are Sailing" got #11 on the PaddyRock.com "Best CD's of 2009" top 20!  Last year we were honored to get a special mention for our debut "As I Roved Out"  but this year we have actually placed, and we are among great bands and good friends!  Congrats to The Wild Colonial Bhoys, another great band from The Twin Cities, and our good friends Enter The Haggis, who made the #1 spot!  A big thanks to PaddyRock and thanks to all of you for your suport and help.