Wee Bag band Go Big
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:46 pm
An obscure Welsh folk band thought they were being pranked when they landed the gig of a lifetime, after being booked by the Pentagon to go on a tour of U.S. Air Force bases around the world.
The five friends who play in the Wee Bag Band, a group more well known as an unsigned pub band, will be flown more than 15,000 miles by the Air Force to bases in Cuba, Greenland, Bahamas and Honduras.
Their next stop of the ten day tour will be Cuba, where are flying via military plane from Baltimore to perform for the troops celebrating St. Patrick's day for an undisclosed amount.
Before they agreed, they had to call up the Pentagon to check that they weren't part of an elaborate prank or a con.
All five members of the band, which includes Paul Bassom, Rory McGough, Steve Own, Julian Anderson and Alan Colinson, have regular day jobs, ranging from motor engineering to computer work.
For years they have been playing Irish music at weddings, pubs and festivals, but now they're taking a tour from Central America to the Antarctic Circle.
