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Bozeman band Fiddle Dundee performs in Missoula, asks crowd to back first CD via GoFundMe
Summary
Fiddle Dundee, a Celtic fiddle‑dance group from Bozeman, performed at the Missoula Celtic Festival and told the audience they are crowdfunding their first CD, saying recording will begin next week at Flick the Fly Studios in Bozeman and that donors of $20 or more will receive a copy.
Fiddle Dundee, a Celtic fiddle‑dance group from Bozeman, performed at the Missoula Celtic Festival and appealed to the crowd to support the band’s first CD. Max Armstrong, a band member, told the audience the group was “in the process of making our very first CD” and asked listeners to search GoFundMe for “bridal dundee” to donate.
The request mattered to the band’s immediate plans: Max Armstrong said the group will “start recording at Flick the Fly Studios in Bozeman next Tuesday,” and added that anyone who donates $20 or more “we’ll send you one of our new CDs.” The band also said they were “about halfway to our goal.”
The set mixed lively reels and jigs with Irish‑step dancing. Journey Armstrong, identified in the performance as the group’s fiddler and a dancer, performed both soft‑shoe and hard‑shoe steps; the group said the floor was microphoned so the audience could hear the hard‑shoe rhythm. Lily Wright performed on keyboard during the set.
Band members listed several tune names during the performance, including Bridal Walk, Old Bush, Ducking and Diving, Valley of the Moon and an original titled The Great Lost Island. Max Armstrong described two of the set pieces as among “our most lively sets.”
The group also said they will include most of the night’s songs on the upcoming CD. An event announcer opened the festival and introduced performers, and at the end of Fiddle Dundee’s set the band thanked the Missoula audience for coming and repeated the GoFundMe instructions.
Details that the band gave publicly at the performance: Fiddle Dundee is from Bozeman; recording location Flick the Fly Studios in Bozeman; GoFundMe search term provided as “bridal dundee”; the band reported they were roughly “about halfway” to their fundraising goal; individual CD donations were described as $20 or more. The festival schedule listed subsequent performers after Fiddle Dundee.
