| Three friends, three
instruments and three wonderfully harmonic
voices come together as Too Few Potatoes. Their love of Irish music is evident in
song as well as in the name of the trio. It refers
to
the 19th
Century famine due to failure of the potato crop, a staple of
Irish diet.
The group consists of Mary Ray, Kathi
Murphy and Brenda Scearcy. Long time friends, they have
sung together and with other groups for some
time.
This was performed in 1992 to a full house at
Channing-Murray Foundation on the University of
Illinois campus in Urbana. This popular spot is home to the
the Red
Herring Coffeehouse which was the head waters of acoustic talent that flowed
out of Champaign-Urbana in the '70s that included The Ship,
Thom Bishop, Appaloosa and Dan Fogelberg.
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