It’s a great way to help our brothers and sisters who are struggling while checking out the great  area musicians who support Moondog’s comittment to easing the pain of hunger in the Greater Pittsburgh area.  Check out Moondog’s website for more info.  Gil and friends will be playing at 7:30.

Speaking of Moondog’s!  On Nov. 29, Gil, Norm Nardini and friends will be celebrating one of the best blues venues around!  It’s Moondog’s 20th Anniversay Party and it promises to be the hottest evening in town!  If you’ve never been to Moondog’s - this would be a great time to experience the venue that has attracted some of the greatest Blues national acts and has been “home” to many blues musicians for 20 years!

Can you believe it? The Irwin Eagle’s will be celebrating it’s 1st Anniversary of the most incredible blues open stage the area has seen. Under the direction of Gil Snyder and the Mystic Knights, the Eagle’s Open Stage has witnessed the areas finest blues performers: Norm Nardini, Kenny Blake, Jill West, Chizmo Charles, Eugene Morgan, Bobby Hawkins, Guitar Shorty, Guitar Zack, Craig King, James Hilton, Randall Troy, Freddie Felgar, Lisa Amadio, and many more, not counting the incredible local talent who come to share their music every Thursday. Don’t mss our exciting 1st Anniversary Celebration on Wed. (the nite before Thanksgiving) Nov. 26th at 8:00.

IF YOU HAVEN’T BEEN to the Open Stage at the Irwin Eagle’s (first, check your pulse) you have been missing what has become a “WHO’S WHO” directory of regional musicians who love what they do - and believe me, what they do is ROCK THE PLACE!  This past Thursday, Special Guest Kenny

Blake blew (no pun intended) us away while Gil Snyder, Freddie Felgar and Randall Troy proved once again that Pittsburgh has more blues talent than ANY other spot in the universe.  To add to what already had become an amazing evening, Guitar Shorty amd his Band tore tha house down with blues that can rock your soul.

Coming in November we’ll be celebrating our one year anniversary and Gil promises to have an amazing array of musicians to help do it right!  Keep watching our website for dates, times and appearances!

The Pepperwood Grill is getting HOT these days - especially when The Gil Snyder Trio is cooking up some laid back blues!  Come out, check out their menu and dine on the meaty blues that Craig King, Dave Ernie (on upright bass), and Gil are serving every other Wed. at 8:00.  Check out our website for the dates - it’s an early evening and a GREAT way to finish out a hard day at work!

Hey STEELER FANS - if you are heading to the game on Oct. 26 look for the MYSTIC KNIGHTS on level A of the Great Concourse at 2:00- We’ll be warming up the fans - and adding just enough heat to BLOW THE GIANTS AWAY!!!!

For those of you who have yet to catch the show, the BLUES POWER OPEN STAGE at the Irwin Eagles has become an unbelieveable hotspot for the best blues artists in Pittsburgh.  Gil, Joe Cunningham and Max Woodall continue to lay the best ground for the roots of the blues.  On any given Thursday you can see folks like Randall Troy, Marc Freddie, Kenny Blake, Norm Nardini, James Hilton, Jill West, Guitar Zack, Chizmo Charles, Craig King and many other amazing musicians who play because they WANT to.  Every Thursday brings a new special guest so check out the website weekly to see who’s coming to town!

“Blues are the root of everything, and people are starting to latch onto that. It reports the human condition, and not always the negative. It’s also an up-tempo thing to lose the blues.”

–Gil Snyder quoted in the Tribune Review Click Here to read the entire article.

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ALthough the Mystic Knights have remained a solid force in the blues community for 25 years, SOME THINGS DO CHANGE  - and this website is one of them!  Thanks to forces beyond our control we hooked up with a totally brilliant website designer who created this dynamic website.  Thanks to her we now have new music, new photos and a new page where you can read about the MK projects and venues!  Check it out!