Celtic Fusion of Scottish & Irish Music
They did it last year, and they’re doing it again tomorrow Saturday, November 3, 2007.
Kansas City St Andrew Pipes & Drums are having their annual “Celtic Fusion” event where Scottish music and Irish music are, well, fused.
The event is a fundraiser for the band so if you enjoy seeing and hearing them play around KC you could think of supporting them.
The Elders are the main act, and you can expect KC’s Celtic rockers to join the pipe band for several numbers.
Again this year your MC is Larry Moore, described as Kansas City’s favourite Irishman - presumably because I’m no longer in KC.
There’s more information about the pipe band on the official website of the Kansas City St Andrew Pipes & Drums.
Admission
Tickets on the door are $15, or $12 if you’re 12 or under. You could have saved $3 or $2 respectively had you purchased tickets in advance but the online selling stopped today at noon. Last year the event sold out, so you may want to get your skids on.
Location
Rose Theatre
Rockhurst High School
9310 State Line Road, Kansas City, Missouri
Celtic Fusion starts at 7pm , though the doors open at 6:30pm so you can go and get yourself a good seat.
Celtic Flags
I do find the banner for the event interesting, as it fuses flags of Scotland and Ireland. Personally though if I was going to merge flags of the two countries I would have merged like with like - as in the Saltire of Scotland’s St Andrew:
And the Saltire of Ireland’s St Patrick:
And come up with this:
Assuming you’re not in favour of an independent Northern Ireland, would you consider a red cross on a blue background as the flag of a Celtic fusion?
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
…and with that flag the theme song for the event could be a rousing version of “When the saints come fusing in” complete with a dry/wet uillean/highland bagpipe duel.
For the T-shirts… flag on front and back says…
Slow Ahead. Saintly collision.
Actually…. there’s a profound thing going on with
that flag. It’s like one of those kid’s color games
from a highlights magazine where you stare at
some color box and then look away onto a white
sheet of paper and you see “other colors”.
Stare at the flag above, then look onto white paper.
If you don’t see orange and green then either cut
back on the haggis or have another guinness.
http://www.americanbikinishop.com/rebelflag.shtml just add stars and you’re there!
This is off topic a bit but I ran across a new album just released by a new Irish group, Flogging Willie. It appears they have a new slant on old traditional Irish favourites. Some of the new titles include: Spancil’s Hill, Balway Gay, Cockles and Muscles, The Holy Brown, Big Long Man, Take Him Up The Monto, Spanish Gravy, Finnegan’s Cake, Kerry Pants and many more.
…and I suppose the group Paddy O’Furniture makes a guest appearance on the CD as well?