Scottish pipe music dances to a hiphop beat, maritime jigs and reels run with low down southern highway blues, and gaelic airs flow like a mountain stream in the morning of the world. The band was formed around the kitchen table over many cups of tea in the fall of' 92.

Excited by the sound emerging at these informal musical gatherings; October Browne, Jamie Snider, and Pat O'Gorman decided to form Morgaine Le Fay. Percussionist Drummer Howard Gaul and bassist Robin Melas joined the band in the fall of 1994 after the departure of original drummer/percussionist Andy Stochansky. The band's name arose from the members common interest in Arthurian legend and Celtic music.

October Browne has been playing guitar for sixteen years, having studied with Emily Remler, Pat Killbride, Don Ross and at the Jazzmobile in Harlem. She was involved in the Irish and acoustic music scenes in New York City from1988 to 1991. Since arriving in Toronto in 1991, October has made an impact with her superb Celtic finger-style guitar playing and aggressive rhythmic accompaniment, as well as her lofty and haunting vocals. She has performed with such notable musicians as Oliver Schroer, Cindy Thompson, Anne Lederman and Kirk Elliot. Her song "Lady Of The Streets" appeared on the critically acclaimed Duke Street Records CD, "Stuck On A Cold Steel Pole" released at Christmas 1995. The song, produced by Evelyne Datl, was singled out in the Ottawa Citizen and Toronto's Eye Weekly, received considerable airplay on CBC Radio and was included on the December 1996 MCA radio compilation CD. October plays guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo cittern and bodhran.

Jamie Snider has been playing fiddle and guitar for about 30 years, having heard live music for the first time as a child at Saturday night dances in the Ottawa Valley. Truly a product of Canadian traditional music, he claims as his musical fathers, Rufus Guinchard and Emile Benoit of Newfoundland as well as Jean Carignan, Mike McDougall of Cape Breton and Leo Browne of Ottawa. Except for Carignan, he has had the pleasure of playing extensively with these gentlemen. Jamie has been involved in the vanguard of traditional Canadian music since 1974, performing and recording with Figgy Duff, the Wonderful Grand Band, Red Island and Tip Splinter.Several of his songs including "U.I.C.," "Evangeline" and "The Babylon Mall" have become Maritime standards. With such expansive experience, Jamie brings a background of verve and imagination to the music of Moraine Le Fay. Jamie sings and plays fiddle, guitar and concertina and currently lives and teaches fiddle in Toronto.

Pat O'Gorman was a founding member of Rare Air, originally Na Cabarfeidh, one of the foremost Celtic groups in the world and one of the most exciting and adventuresome musical ensembles that Canada has ever produced. In fourteen years with Rare Air he performed at countless concerts and festivals as well as on radio and TV throughout North America and Europe. He has released six recordings on the WEA, Green Linnett and Flying Fish labels and helped arrange, compose and record music for the Canadian feature films "The Midday Sun" and "Efraim" as well as Rare Air's own video release Tribal Rites. In 1993, Pat received a Canada Council grant to study with renowned Irish flute player, Peter Horan of County Sligo, Ireland. He has played on recordings by Oliver Schroer, Loretto Reid & Brian Taheny, Michael Danna, Chalk Circle and Murray McLaughlin and for the series "Road To Avonlea". Through his childhood training on the Highland bagpipe, his year of study in Brittany, and sixteen years of involvement in Toronto's Irish community, Pat brings a richness of knowledge and experience to Morgaine Le Fay. Pat plays bagpipes, wooden concert flute and whistles.

Howard Gaul has been playing drums for thirty years. Since the early eighties he has performed on the Toronto music scene in a wide variety of live and recorded musical settings, from jazz and experimental with Ed Bickert, The Rob Carroll Group, The Ron Allen Group and Daniel Janke, to the Afro-Cuban sounds of Cocada. In 1994, Howard recorded with Canadian Fiddle Champion, Frank Leahy and Edward Minevich and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony on a CD entitled "Bending The Bows". That same year he also performed on the critically acclaimed CD "Puerto Angel" with The Henrys, featuring Mary Margaret O'Hara. He currently plays with such diverse artists as Cate Friesen, Johnny Pearl and Big Swing & The Swing Pigs. Howard brought his vast experience and eclectic musical talent to Morgaine Le Fay in the fall of 1994.

Up She Flew
CD $15.00 ON SALE AGAIN SEPTEMEBER 8, 2003

1. Swamp Lake
2. Hand Me Down My Fiddle
3. Black Mountain
4. Sandwood Down To Kyle
5. Tinker’s Knife
6. Streets of Montreal / The Busking Reel
7. Naked and Small
8. John Come Sell Your Fiddle
9. Heather in the Valley
10. The Gate
11. Yellowknife
12. Scuff and Scoff
13. Home and Away
14. Julia’s Baby / Julia Delaney