Top Ten Irish Fest Memories
As my own review of the 2006 KC Irish Fest remains an unfinished unpublished monster, here’s something shorter on former years while I try and make a living:
#10 - 2004 : The eBay auction to buy your name on the Irish Pub front, because watching bids increase and increase just makes you giddy.
#9 - 2003 : The homeless under the bridge by Berkley Park, because they found a lot of our booze, and well, homeless is another word for immigrant.
#8 - 2004 : The Ould Irish Fest Song by Eddie Delahunt, because festival times were immortalized to a place where the weather doesn’t matter.
#7 - 2005 : The Celtic High Cross, because a sense of physical place was taking shape, and it was just there, no fuss, just there.
#6 - 2004 : Páistí ag Trasnú - Children’s Crossing - the beginning of the Penpal program, because the proverbial floodgates opened and enthusiastic bonds across thousands of miles were made.
#5 - 2005 : Mrs Eddie Delahunt putting inflated escaping balloons in a large bin (trash can), because in Irish festivals, just like in life, there are ups and there are downs.
#4 - 2003 : Drexel Hall, because we were exhausted and then had to do it all over again only weeks later, and because the beer was outside, in November.
#3 - 2005 : The Kids essay contest, because a festival is about more than beer and music. And because writing, well, tá sé part of what we are.
#2 - 2004 : The couch with Eileen Ivers and Amanda kapousouz playing their fiddles at the after party, because real music needs very little.
#1 - 2003 : I was standing on straw, programs, signposts, and dreams in the mud, when I saw a woman in a yellow cape in the rain - because just like Rock ‘n’ Roll, there really isn’t much point to Irish music unless…well, you know.
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Drexel Hall is one of my top concert memories ever. The people there were true fans and the whole place was shaking with energy or maybe it was really the building shaking… I’m not sure but it was a great show!!
Wah, wah, wah! ;-(
Oh well, “In general Irish people - actually from Ireland that is - tend to be negative creatures, which certainly includes me,…”, ’bout sums it up, eh?
It sums up the half sentence you quoted, yes.
Kind of funny that you posted your comment on the wrong post, a post where every single point of the numbered ten contradicts your glib selective, and out of context, quote as assessment of another post, not to mention thousands of pages of humorous content and seven years of happiness.
Well done!