For those not keeping up with the pace of comments whizzing around Irish KC, here’s a few recent highlights:
   • Shane Wearen from Irish band […]

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Joel Reichenberger, sports editor of The De Soto Explorer, has a piece today on a rare attendance at a gig for him, the Dropkick Murphys […]

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The Kansas City Star has a review of The Elder’s Annual Irish Hooley/Hoolie at the Uptown Theater. (scroll down)
And very glowing it is too, putting […]

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Kansas City Paddy’s Day parade photos and list of winners, along with links to articles and reviews are being posted to the KC St Patrick’s […]

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It’s been a few years since Damien Rice toured in this part of America, but he’s coming back. On Sunday, May 13, 2007, Damien Rice […]

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Yesterday’s Kansas City Star reviewed The Gaf on Wornall at Romanelli (though it’s been a few months since the ‘The’ fell off the sign […]

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Speaking of The Elders, a slight AP review of their still new CD, Racing The Tide, was carried by the Wichita Eagle a couple of […]

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I’ve been meaning to post on the American release of The Wind That Shakes The Barley since it was first announced back in August. It’s […]

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Speaking of mistakes by me, Mike Webber, responsible for the excellent review of The Pogues live in LA I highlighted a short while back, gently […]

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What did you do when you turned sweet sixteen? Take a road trip from Alabama to Missouri to see Flogging Molly?
Nope? Well somebody else […]

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The beauty of a venue like the Bragg Auditorium is, as Cathie Ryan said herself, that she gets to perform songs she just can’t do […]

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A couple of days back I read a great review by Arlice Davenport in the Wichita Eagle of Irish nobel prizewinner Seamus Heaney’s District and […]

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Moya Brennan, sometimes Máire Brennan, or Máire Ní Bhraonáin, you know and love as the front woman of the Irish family band Clannad. Is it […]

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Enter The Haggis will be in St Louis, Missouri next week - and they’re going down rather well on their current tour.
UPDATE:
ETH Lawrence, KS gig […]

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Regardless of reviews, I was never overly hopeful of me ever being likely to see The Pirate Queen, and I haven’t changed my mind.
But […]

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The music blog of the Kansas City Star, Back To Rockville, has a great review of The Pogues very recent appearances in L.A. by Mike […]

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Irish Festival stars, Gaelic Storm, have posted a review of their CD Bring Yer Wellies. I think it’s meant to be a good review, but […]

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CMN Podcast #86 was released last night, and as ever it’s a mixed bag. Well not as ever, last week it wasn’t mixed at all, […]

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Last week I had a chance to see “What Means Motley?” which showed at the recent Kansas International Film Festival. The following is a review […]

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Okay, so today there’s been plenty of news of Flogging Molly, Luka Bloom, Enter The Haggis, The Elders, The Fuchsia Band, and The Young Dubliners […]

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