DogTree: Music With Celtic Origins
Took me a while but I’ve added the link to DogTree’s website to the list of Kansas City Irish & Celtic bands.
DogTree are an acoustic music group of 4 members using fiddle, guitar, flute, whistles, harmonica, percussion and voice. I still frequently have people coming to IrishKC looking for word of Shenanigans, Victor Dougherty’s band in a life before Dog Tree
While our sound has Celtic origins we have continued to evolve adding original compositions, American and world music.
DogTree started when musicians from the Kansas City music scene played for a Ceili benefiting the Christine O’Riada Academy of Irish Dance.
“We had so much fun that we just had to keep playing!”
You can see Dog Tree perform live in October at Kansas City’s new Irish pub, Waxy O’Shea’s, and before that at the Mike Roark Benefit Against Cancer:
  10/18/2009 Coffeehouse Set in Eden Alley 3pm - 3:30pm at the Mike Roark Benefit Against Cancer, Unity Temple on the Plaza 707 W. 47th St. and Eden Alley
10/21/2009 Waxy O’ Shea’s Irish Pub of Shawnee 8 - 11pm - 11900 Shawnee Mission Parkway, (at the N.W. corner of Quivera at Shawnee Mission Pkwy) (913) 631-1759
Video
DogTree performing at the Browne’s Irish Market & Deli - Irish Street Fair 2008 - Brought to you by: KCIrishMusic.com
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Oh no - I’d hoped we’d seen the last of this ass clown.
“Human Bagpipe?” Really? (min 2:50 then 3:08) There were enough tacky adolescent Shenanigans in that other incarnation and this one seems just as bad. I’d bet that he’s still telling racist Irish jokes on stage too.
I really hope this guy will cease the need to coerce KC into believing this is Irish music (by getting Irish gigs.) It’s not. I didn’t believe it before, and I don’t believe it this time. I get the very real impression from the video that he doesn’t like Irish music – that he seems hell bent on making a mockery of it and Irish people.
I have a solution - don’t play it; or, at least stop telling people you do.
Having a last name of Dougherty does not legitimize this embarrassing rennie/carnie, vaudevillian contempt for Irish music. KC needs to stop believing that everyone who claims to play Irish music actually does.
To GreenDearth,
DogTree is a new band that formed about two or so years ago. The group has some amazing talent and very good people in it. What you saw and what you described is not what DogTree is or what we would like to be.
I formed this band and yes, I was also in Shenanigans. I can honestly say that it was never our intent to insult or mock anyone, Irish or otherwise. I am truly sorry if we did so.
DogTree does play Celtic music but we are playing other genres as well. I agree that we have a lot of room to grow and that we will have to learn from the good and the bad. I will also say that I have been blessed to work with these amazing and talented people.
I want to thank you for your comments.
Richelle Basgall
Leader/founder
DogTree
” get the very real impression from the video that he doesn’t like Irish music – that he seems hell bent on making a mockery of it and Irish people.”
Wow, you get that from maybe 10 seconds of “human bagpipes”? You need more fiber in your diet, buddy, you’re full of it!
I’ve been listening to Shenanigans for years, so I’m admittedly prejudiced in their favor, but I certainly would not have been listening to a bunch of bigots. They have always had fun with their music and encouraged others to do so as well, and never in a mean-spirited manner. You need to learn to lighten up.