Millish at KC Irish Fest

As we await the new KC Irish Fest website, we should read some more. So I've been reading the Midwest Irish Focus, and Millish is the biggest name I see when scanning through the list of artists in the Irish Fest ad, that is not listed on the KCIF website.

Millish, who played in Michigan last night, have just finished a tour of Germany. With my favourite logo of all the performers coming to KC Irish Fest this year, Millish quote Frank Zappa in attempt to render pointless any words we might use to describe their music: Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Dancing about architecture sounds eminently worthwhile to me, and wasn't that exactly what Riverdance was about anyway?

Jigs. Uilleann pipes. Fusion. Bluegrass. Irish. Fiddle. Jazz. And the obstetrical toad is gigging in his fertilized skirt. Honestly.

How can you not like a band, that not alone likes poetry but champions it. Kansas City you have less than six months to send Millish an appreciation of their coming, by your random acts of poetry.

Their debut album earned them an International Acoustic Music Award - before it was even released. Now that's what I call acoustic.

Millish, like a lot of performers these days, have an old version of their website and a new fangled Flash version. Let me give you a tip. Use the old version. You'll miss the fabulous photographs, but you'll find your way around, and it will actually be more up-to-date (because it's easier to update good old-fashioned HTML than pretty-boy Flash)

Handy Irish Phrase: Má labhríonn an chuach ar chrann gan duiliúr díol do bhó agus ceannaigh arbhar   (If the cuckoo calls from a tree without leaves, sell your cow and buy corn)