Hair of the Dog Hooley
Together since 1993, Hair Of The Dog is one of the world’s foremost Celtic bands, releasing 10 best-selling CDs along the way. The Irish Echo stated, “Hair Of The Dog’s, Liam Left the Lights On Again CD…in its entirety is simply a delight to listen to,” and the Kingston, New York Freeman Times declared, “Hair Of The Dog plays with a cohesive oneness that most bands never get. They are a regional music treasure.” Hair Of The Dog has racked up millions of certified Spotify Streams while closer to home, HOTD has repeatedly been named, “Best Band,” since the late 1990’s, by the Northeast’s top regional newspapers and magazines and has had millions of certified streams on Spotify. Based in Upstate New York, Hair Of The Dog is Rick Bedrosian (guitar and vocals), Larry Packer (fiddle), Dan Samson (bass and vocals) and Gene Garone (drums).
Founder and leader Rick Bedrosian has performed and/or recorded with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Marshall Crenshaw, Gene Clark of The Byrds, John Stewart of The Kingston Trio, southern rock legends The Outlaws, county band BlackHawk, singer/songwriter Marshall Chapman and Eddie Angel (Los Straitjackets). Rick’s also an award-winning filmmaker, podcaster, photographer (including Paul McCartney & Vin Scully) and international tour guide. Bedrosian’s TV Pilot, “I Could Eat,” has won the top prize at dozens of major film festivals throughout the world and has been shown on the biggest screens in big markets including New York, Hollywood (Grauman’s Chinese Theatre), Los Angeles (Simi Valley) and Toronto. Additionally, from 2012-2019, Rick Bedrosian was George Harrison in an acclaimed Beatlemania stage show.
Fiddler Larry Packer was lead guitarist of Sha Na Na, had a top ten hit (Good Old Rock and Roll) with a Jimi Hendrix produced band called Cat Mother and the All-Night News Boys and appeared with The Band in Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz.” Larry also guested on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live’s” third episode which originally aired in 1975. Packer’s name appears on albums and playbills with countless other major acts including The Band (“The Last Waltz”, “Islands” and “High on the Hog”), Hall and Oates (“Abandoned Luncheonette”), Johnny, Cash, Lou Reed, Phoebe Snow, Jerry Jeff Walker, Peter Rowan, Harry Belafonte, David Bromberg and Maria Muldaur. Larry was inducted into the New York State Blues Hall of Fame in 2016.
On bass and vocals is Dan Samson. Dan studied at the Crane School of Music and has played bass in numerous bands throughout New York’s Capital Region for more than 40 years- most notably, performing with New York State Blues Hall of Fame inductee, Willie Pierce Blues Band and the Grammy-nominated Joey Thomas Big Band. Drummer Gene Garone has been a ubiquitous presence in the Northeast and beyond, beating a savage tattoo with dozens of bands including Doc Scanlon’s Rhythm Boys, Brass-O-Mania, Mother Goose Jazz Band, Joey Thomas Big Band, The Roasters, CD3, Cole Broderick Quartet, Hair Of The Dog (since 2017) and more.
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