Why Is The Magic Square and How? We Are: Dave Cory; Banjo, Bodhran, Guitar and Bozouki Dan Isaacson; Flute, Whistle, Bozouki. Breige Quinn; Fiddle Ted Davis; Guitar, Flute, Banjo We all met in Boston. I arrived in 1995 and quickly gravitated to the session scene which was just starting to get really good back then. Ted was the next to arrive, around 1998, we met at The Burren, internationally acknowledged Home Base of Irish music in Boston. Dave and I first met in San Francisco in 1999. He came out to visit that winter and forgot to go home, the historic conversation went as follows: "Dude," I said, "You should move to town and we should start a band", to which Dave replied, "OK" and that was that. We worked on the record in fits of activity that were few and far between, due to poverty and laziness. Breige came to visit in the spring of 2002 and, she picked things up so fast we decided to get her to help us finish the thing, she stayed for three months and went back the night before our first gig at Johnny D's in Somerville, which was very sad, but we were opening for our good friends Siucras cd launch and this was not at all sad. We didn't all meet up together again for almost a year and we'd never rehearsed together as a group until the day before our launch, you can see pictures of the rehearsal and the launch itself in our photo gallery (coming soon). How Can I Purchase The Magic Squares Amazing Debut CD? Not only will we tell you how, we'll tell you why. We are literally a one horse operation, every copy of our cd that gets sold on this website goes directly to the bands eaty fund, no shady record company dudes or sketchy middlemen, you can feel proud about your Wise Purchase knowing that youre helping American small business get back on its feet. We produced the whole thing ourselves at great personal expense specifically to bring you the finest homegrown traditional music product money can buy. A home is merely a house without one, supplies are limited, step right up, folks, we're broke! No, really we are please order a cd and just you wait for the good karma to come and find you. How Can I Place Larger Orders For Magic Squares Amazing Debut CD? Contact Dan Isaacson at dandandan@themagicsquare.com. How Can I Book The Magic Square? Contact Dan Isaacson at dandandan@themagicsquare.com. Whom Does The Magic Square Love? We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our families and friends in the Boston session scene who taught us all so much. Especially to Sean Gannon, Noel Scott, Johnny OLeary, Helena Delaney, Patrick Murray and Cathleen Conneely from whom we learned tunes that we used on our record. But there are so many more! We'd also like to thank Tommy Peoples who was always a huge inspiration to all of us and taught us an awful lot without even trying, also for the lovely tune he wrote for Dave and Dan who will always be grateful for the gesture and the tune itself, of course. Thanks also to John Gannon, Sean's father and to Sean's brother Colm for years of inspiration, famous hospitality and excellent times, to Matt and Shannon Heaton for being the Best The World Has Ever Known, to George Keith, Tina Lech, Martin Langer, Mary McEvily, and Eric Merrill for great times and many tunes and a couple of biiig messes. Thanks also Tommy and Louise for all the music and for letting us use their bar as our Laboratory, to the people who run the Druid for being so nice to us, and to Siobhan and everyone who works at Matt Murphy's for more of the same and her legendary hospitality and amazing grub. Also we owe a huge debt to Rob and Sarah Ignazio for the excellent work they did for us in the studio and on graphic design, respectively. More of the same to Todd Glacey who helped us do the mixing, to Dan Landau for setting up this web site and to Wonder Drug Records for doing excellent work on very short notice, they saved our butts in The Biggest Way, Dudes. Extra Extra thanks to Briege for saving our unlikely little recording project from the dustbin of history Why do people read this stuff? Who knows? Home