Just after the Houston International Festival and Tropical Storm Allison (June 5-9, 2001) which flooded Houston for 4 days straight, Adrian and Jody Townsley (a prominent Loch Dhu Dancer and actress set about generating proposed names. It was a sound business move to add another performing group to Houston’s Celtic offerings. In May, 2001 the idea of forming a performing troupe that had, instead of 12 dancers and a piper (Adrian would double as a percussionist as well as dance), which is very expensive to tour or book for clients the idea of a musical act with high-energy and humor with only two members who could dance would be a more viable and cost-effective entity. Subsequently, from that time until late September 2001 Loch Dhu performed at the Kelvin Arms, a Scottish Pub in Houston’s posh Rice Village every Friday night. When the troupe performed at the Houston International Festival April 28-29, 2001 bagpiper Richard Kean was hired to perform on bagpipes. It was in the Spring of 2001, and it became a natural evolution to hire a live bagpiper at many venues, rather than to dance to a CD or “canned” music. The Loch Dhu Dancers performed to Celtic Rock music which more often than not featured bagpipes in their instrumentation. Houston, TX 1998 Adrian co-founded the Loch Dhu Dancers which evolved into one of Houston’s most popular professional performance troupes keeping the torch alive for new audiences in the Texas Celtic scene. Adrian Walter - Cultivating creativity in the Arts
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