McGonigel's Mucky Duck

We will be serving a keg of St. Arnold's Christmas Ale tonight starting at 5pm. Get out your Santa Hat and join us for a buy the beer … keep the souvenir glass night!

Trivia Night at the Mucky Duck!

We are starting on Wednesday July 6, 2011 at 7 PM. You can pick your friends for your team, you can pick your brain for answers, but you can't pick your nose or your friends brains. The winning team (5 people) will get a great prize. We will also have our full food and drink menu available before, during and after the festivities. Don't be left out! Be part of the fun.

Questions:

The trivia questions will cover a wide variety of topics. There will be five rounds of questions with five questions per round. The difficulty of the questions increases with each round and the more difficult the questions the more points your team can earn!

Rules:

Rule number one is of course no cheating!

The team with the most points at the end of the night gets to take home the full color 3 dimensional world cup trophy for a week! While the team has the trophy they are encouraged to add something on to it before bringing it back the next trivia night. Be creative! Items from previous teams can’t be removed from the trophy by another team but please refrain from adding anything inappropriate!

IRISH SESSION

Showtime 8pm

No Cover

You can hear the lively blend of fiddle, flute and percussion from the muddy sidewalk outside the pub. Inside, musicians pack the corner stage.

On the right are the fiddlers, three or four of them. To the left are the bodhran drummers, holding their ancient Irish tom-toms like shields.

An acoustic guitarist strums the rhythm at center stage, with a couple of penny-whistle players blowing in his ears. All the musicians are playing hard to be heard over the boisterous banter of patrons lifting pints of ale and stout malts at tables or at the bar. 

A fiddler calls for The Cliffs of Moher, an instrumental known to Celtic musicians around the world. This leads into a medley of traditional jigs and reels that inspires one lass to do a high-hopping ceili dance a corner of the room. An older man watches, smiles, claps along for a minute and orders another pint.

THE pub could be in Dublin or Belfast, where Irish folk musicians have passed down traditional tunes from generation to generation. Or it could be in New York or Boston, where tight Irish-American communities have kept a bond with old-country culture.

But it's not. It's here in Houston's Upper Kirby district. The scene is replayed with minor variations every Wednesday night at McGonigel 's Mucky Duck's long-running Irish session.