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Molly's Revenge Celtic Music Band Pete Haworth  |
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Pete's musical career started many years ago back in England when he bought a guitar and joined a rock band with some
friends from high school. The band changed names frequently since nobody would book them again after hearing
them for the first time! At that time, Pete's musical idols were the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly,
and Cliff Richard.
Shortly after leaving high school, Pete started making regular weekend camping trips with a group of friends to a beautiful part of England known as the Lake District. Their favorite destination was a pub in a remote valley which was run by an Austrian landlady who allowed them to camp in a field across the road from the pub and drink and play music in the pub until all hours of the night. Pete was the main musical entertainer at the venue and it was during this time that he started to get interested in cures for hangovers, folk music in general and Irish folk music in particular, especially in the form of the Dubliners. Pete's interest in folk music lead to the formation of a local folk group and they soon found that, unlike Pete's rock band, people were willing to book them more than once so they didn't have to keep changing their name. Unfortunately, Pete can't remember what that name was! Not too long after that, Pete moved away from his home town to the big metropolis - London - and took a break from music to pursue his career as a computer programmer. A few years, one wife, and two kids later, Pete hooked with a couple of friends in the village he lived in near Oxford and began playing folk music again (English this time). They were the resident opening act at the local folk club which met once a month. The other two people in the band were Paul, a local farmer, and Chad who had an extremely long beard and worked as a pig technician (don't even ask!). The folk group became known as Peter, Paul, and Hairy and that was the end of any hopes of national recognition! It was during this period that Pete came to know the music of Dave Swarbrick, fiddler and erstwhile member of Fairport Convention, another huge influence on his musical tastes. One of his most prized possesions is a bootleg tape of a performance by Dave Swarbrick and Simon Nichol at the local folk club in November 1981. In 1982, Pete and his family moved to Sunnyvale, California to further his career. Once again, Pete's musical interests went on the back burner with the exception of playing songs around the campfire during various camping trips with newfound American friends. Several years later, Pete discovered the Celtic Society Of The Monterey Bay and the plethora of well-known Irish and Scottish bands that they presented in concert. The Society also organized Irish music sessions twice a month and so Pete once again got back into the folk music way of life. It was at these sessions that he first met the other members of what was to become Molly's Revenge. Pete and his wife moved to the Santa Cruz area in 2000 and they both retired in 2001 thus giving Pete even more time to play music. Pete and his wife host several house concerts each year, organized by the Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay. Pete now enjoys not only playing music with the other members of Molly's Revenge but also running the business side of the band. His current musical heros include bands such as Lunasa, Dervish, Old Blind Dogs, Battlefied Band, Danu, and individual performers such as Kevin Burke, Paddy Keenan, and last but not least, his fellow band members. Send Pete an email |