Keli O’Neill Wenzel, Executive Director of the Kansas City Irish Fest, and President and Managing Partner of O’Neill Marketing and Event Management, is interviewed in […]

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In the evening, a woman who looked to be 90 or older walked up to the stage and told Delahunt to play “Danny Boy.” As […]

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I’m pretty sure it’s mistaken, but the Kansas City Star is reporting that “the following streets will be closed from 9 a.m. Thursday to 10 […]

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Calling it ‘perhaps the area’s best organized and most tirelessly promoted festival’ the Kansas City Star yesterday gave a shout out to KC’s Irish festival […]

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The list of the largest Irish festivals in America has been updated.
An explanation and discussion of the attendance figures, their sources and calculation, is […]

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You stop paying attention for a few weeks and your memory goes to pot.
The Global Sounds Music Festival was on Saturday in Colombia, Missouri and […]

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Girsa, the 8-member all-female traditional Irish group from Pearl River in New York, have the Irish festival in Kansas City September 2011 listed on their […]

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I usually post reactions to Kansas City’s Labor Day Weekend Irish Fest in the form of excerpts and links, but for the 2010 festival the […]

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One of the Irish highlight’s of the year in Kansas City is Brown’s Irish Street Faire, and 2010 was no exception despite the afternoon storms. […]

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Ireland’s folk-popsters, The Guggenheim Grotto are reporting on MySpace, and on FaceBook, and on Twitter that they are playing in Kansas City on Friday, September […]

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The Weston Irish Fest 2009 starts tonight, Friday, October 09 and continues through Saturday October 10 to Sunday October 11.
The 10th Annual Irish Festival at […]

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This year you get to see some live Irish traditional music at the Plaza Art Fair, as provided by Kelly who are performing on: Saturday, […]

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Berry Anderson in The Pitch reviews the Crossroads Music Fest from the weekend, including a performance by KC Irish pub rockers The Kelihans that is […]

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Christine Vendal in the Kansas City Star reports the story that some people have been talking about this last week, of the arrest of the […]

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The initial videos that were uploaded are over on the Reactions to KC Irish Fest 2009 post, but now there are much more available and […]

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While “this loser hasn’t lived in KC for a year* and wasn’t even at the Irish Fest”, here’s the words of 50 people who were. […]

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The Annual Weston Irish Fest has announced their Volunteer Schedule is now available.
Contact Corey at O’Malley’s Irish Pub [corey@westonirish.com] if you would like to be […]

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The 2009 Ethnic Enrichment Festival takes place on the weekend of 21-23 August, 2009 as usual at Swope Park.
While Ireland is one of the 66 […]

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When is a Celtic festival not an Irish festival?
Here’s a few band that fans of Irish music in Kansas City should be familiar with. […]

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The Wayward Son of the Pitch Weekly went to 2 festivals in Kansas City on Saturday gone, Browne’s Irish Street Fair and the American Waste […]

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