Tangled Reel was born in September 2003. This started with an application for Fairbridge and a demo CD. We then played at the Fairbridge Festival in April 2004.
We play mostly Traditional Irish Music with the odd Scottish or French Canadian tune thrown into the mix as well as a few original tunes written in the traditional idiom.
We did our first gig for the Irish supporters of the International rules match - a luncheon at the Duxton Hotel in Perth.
Since then we have done a wedding and played at the "Buddha's Birthday" Celebrations in the Supreme Court Gardens, which was a lot of fun despite the dodgy weather at first.
Three of us were part of the group (under the Comhaltas banner) doing the support act for a Chieftains concert here in Perth. On November 19th 2005 we are played at the Guinness Craic Ball in Langley Plaza Hotel for the second year running. And they have tentatively asked us to come back again next year (2006).
On 15th March 2005 we did a concert as part of the Summer on the Swan series for Kulcha.
In April 2005 we returned to Fairbridge Festival to host two sessions and perform in a concert at the winebar on the Sunday.
It seemed that this appearance was the last for Tangled Reel, as it was proving hard to keep it together over the prior 6 months. But Tangled Reel did come together again to do the Guinness Craic Ball for the second year running (Nov 05). Follwing this TR did a few small gigs at private events and the Craic Ball again in 2006 & 2007. In March 2007 we played for Comhaltas at the Nannup Folk Festival with Dympna substituting for Tom who went off on his honeymoon. We put in an application for The National Folk Festival in Canberra 2007 as it was the year for West Australia but unfortunately this was not successful. Teresa left to live in Ireland and that put TR on hold until Brett Hirsch stepped into the gap.
