The Crowlin Ferlies

The Ferlies are a big ol' Celtic/Old Time/Bluegrass Band. We can be heard and seen each Tuesday evening 7:30 to 10:30 during the winter and summer seasons at the Double Dog Pub in Aspen. It is located at the intersection of Monarch and Hopkins Streets adjacent to The Steak Pit.

The band cranks up at 7:30 and plays until 10:30. Members include: Sandy Munro, Steve Johnson, Don Paine, John Sommers, Robert Rosenberg, Ann Federowicz, Kory Krahl, Tammie Lane, Andrea Early, and Trevor Mountjoy. The music really cooks, and the band has been playing various community and private events around the valley for the past two years.

Keep us in mind for your parties, as the ideal background music for most any event. We can do it with or without a PA system, and a variable number of musicians to suit the day.

Crowlin Ferlie background info... Just where did that name come from?

To A Louse.
by Robert Burns

On seeing one on a lady's bonnet at church.

The following Burns' poem again has one line that is often quoted, though I doubt that most readers would have no idea where it comes from, or what the subject of the line refers to. It never ceases to amaze me in reading his poems, the depth of his understanding of human nature and his interpretation of it to the animal kingdom. It was one Sunday while sitting behind a young 'lady' in the church, that he noticed a head louse roaming over its domain in the bows and ribbons of her hat, and I assume her hair. Poor woman, little did she know that she would, with her head companion, be the subject of one of Burns' poems, on how we see ourselves, and how we think other people see us.

First verse only:

Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie?
Your impudence protects you sairly,
I canna say but ye strut rarely
Owre gauze and lace,
Tho' faith! I fear ye dine but sparely
On sic a place.

for the entire poem... http://www.worldburnsclub.com/poems/translations/552.htm