New music video for “Liberty”

Posted on September 12, 2008

Big shout outs to Seanimal (aka humanimal) who’s done it yet again and put together a very cool video for Liberty, the title track off our brand new album.  check it out:

2 steps forward for every step back

Posted on August 13, 2008

Hey folks!

Liberty is finished!  We sent the files to the printer tuesday morning after a slight delay and should be ready by the end of the week.   We’ll have copies available at all the shows on our trip and will be putting up an online store on this site to sell both physical copies and downloads when we get back.   We also plan to make the mp3s available over iTunes and all the other big online music vendors.

Last minute preparations for the trip are coming along pretty well.  The show at the Loft in PA got canceled because one of the venues co-owners robbed the place blind and they had to shut down, which sucks.  So that’s one step back.  Fortunately we’ve got two more steps forward in the form of 2 new shows, one in Manhattan and the other in Philladelphia.  Our updated show list for the tour is:

Aug 21 2008 8:00PM
Puck’s in Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Aug 23 2008 10:00PM
Celtic Collision @ PUBLIC ASSEMBLY(formerly Galapagos) in Brooklyn (Williamsburg), New York

Aug. 25th 10:00PM
Tritone (http://www.tritonebar.com/) in Philadelphia, Pensyvania.

Aug 28 2008 8:00PM
CherryWood Bar & Grill Clementon, New Jersey

Aug 29 2008 12:00A
The Underscore in Manhattan, New York, New York

Aug 30 2008 8:00P
Barrington Coffee House and Cafe Barrington, New Jersey

Aug 31 2008 4:00P
COHENFEST (Private Show) CAPE MAY, New Jersey

As before, we really need to move pre-sale tickets for the show at Puck to keep the venue happy, so if you’re planning to come it’d be awesome if you could buy a few and get a group of friends to come with ya. Obviously we’re not in our home turf here and need all the help we can get getting the word out for all of these shows, so anything ya’ll can do to get folks out to the shows would be greatly appreciated.

And, for all our folks here on the west coast, I should mention that KVMR has started selling tickets for their annual festival in September and that if you buy ‘em early you can get a big fat discount. It’s 2 days of music and fun that you wont forget in a hurry, with some of the best celtic bands in north america playing – including Solas, Enter the Haggis, Molly’s Revenge, and a bunch more.   You can get your tickets at: http://www.kvmr.org/celticfestival/tickets.htm

Also, you may have noticed our website ahs been updated with the new album art – big ups to ArKar who did the paintings for us and EustinLove who did the graff art for the CD face! – and both our website and myspace feature streaming versions of several of the new tracks.  So check those out if you haven’t already.

See ya’ll at the shows,

Beltaine’s Fire

On our way to the east coast!

Posted on July 26, 2008

Hey folks!

We’ve pretty much finalized our east coast tour stops and all that’s left to do is put the finishing touches on the new album before we leave. “Liberty” Is due to be finished by the 14th of august and we’ll have copies available at all our shows.

Here’s our up to date show list – and for everyone who isn’t on the east-coast we’d really appreciate it if you forwarded this info to your friends and family back east. In specific, we really need to move the presale tickets for the show @ Puck’s in PA since it’s our only show with presale.

Thursday August, 21 2008 at Puck
85 Printers Alley, Doylestown, Pennsylvania 18901
Cost : $8

Puck’s bills itself as “Studio quality sound, Live.” and from everything we’ve heard they live up to that boast. This is probably the best-sounding venue we’re going to play in on the trip,. so you’re in for a treat. We’d really really like to sell this one out, so don’t wait till night-of to get your tickets. You can get pre-sale tickets online at Ticketweb.

This is our first east-coast show, and Lynx’s first time performing in PA since the 2001 anti-war mobilization against the invasion of Iraq.

Saturday August, 23 2008 “Celtic Collision” @ PUBLIC ASSEMBLY (Formerly Galapagos)
70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn (Williamsburg), New York 11211
Cost : $15

Celtic music throwdown in Brooklyn! we’re gonna have bands from all genres of modern celtic music, all coming together to highlight our common ground, common roots, and show some unity. With Performances by: Seanchai & the Unity Squad, Finn’s Fury, Jameson’s Revenge, and of course Beltaine’s Fire! This is our only NYC show for the trip.

Thursday August, 28 2008 at CherryWood Bar & Grill
1460 Blackwood-Clementon Road, Clementon, New Jersey

Join us for a show in Jersey at the CherryWood with our friends Sounds From Atlantis – http://www.myspace.com/soundsfromatlantis

Friday August, 29 2008 at The Loft @ Taylors
** CANCELED BECAUSE VENUE UNEXPECTEDLY CLOSED**

Saturday August, 30 2008 at Barrington Coffee House and Cafe
131 Clements Bridge Rd., Barrington, New Jersey 08007
Cost : $8

Music! Coffee! How can you go wrong?

We’ll also be playing guerrilla sidewalk sets on our days off all along the tour and keeping an eye out for impromptu gigs in unexpected places, depending on what comes up.

thanks for all your support! see ya at the shows!

-Beltaine’s Fire

brand new video for ‘when the floods come’

Posted on June 16, 2008

check this ish out, massive thanks to HumAnimal for putting it together for us:

May update

Posted on May 5, 2008

Greetings!

Just a quick May update to let you in on what we’re up to and where you can catch Beltaine’s Fire this month:

But, before we get there, a big congratulations goes out to our drummer Todd and his wife on the arrival of their first child. They had a healthy baby girl May 2nd whom we’re sure will grow up to be just as cool as her parents. Yay!

As for the shows: This month there are three notable opportunities to see us live;

Saturday May 10th we’ll be at the Berkeley Pagan Festival in.. yes.. Berkley. The event gets going at 10am and is an all day FREE event put on by the Pagan alliance. It will be happening in Civic center park at 2151 Martin Luther King jr near the downtown Berkley bart station. Further info and details can be found at http://thepaganalliance.org

Saturday May 17 We’ll be playing the new artists showcase at the Livermore Scottish Highland Games, 1100 Arroyo Rd, Robertson Park, Livermore, CA. Tickets and all the details are available at http://www.livermoregames.com Come out. Wear your kilt. Lynx sure will be wearing his.

Monday May 26th at the Black Cat Bar & Grill in beautiful Pengrove, CA. We’ll be playing a double set, starting at 9pm. A good way to spend a memorial day. This is our first Pengrove show.

In other news, we finally got around to sorting through the video files from our last couple of shows this weekend, and just posted a new one for “Desert Sunrise.” You can catch it in our “Video” section. Also there are a bunch of new pictures in the albums. Also, we had a Beltaine celebration on May 1st. It was great.