Téada at Southern Illinois Irish Festival
Téada, familiar to Kansas City from the last two Irish Fests, are in Michigan right now, and finish their current US Tour this Saturday, at the Southern Illinois Irish Festival in Carbondale, Il.
Headlining the Illinois festival as it celebrates its 10th anniversary, is the nearest to Kansas City Téada are scheduled to get in 2006. It’s just like driving to Killarney. If you lived in Dublin that is. And if Ireland was double its size.
Or you might wait for next month when the lads have a new CD/DVD scheduled for release.
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Carbondale is practically in my backyard (about an hour and a half drive) - at least as opposed to Kansas City! (Seven LONG hours in car!)
But have I ever managed to go to the Southern Illinois Fest? Nope. KCIF? Brookside? Weston? You betcha!
I figure the year that Carbondale brings in a band I can’t miss I’ll have a big event for work that weekend - it’ll be my luck.
Actually, they’ve been at 3 KCIF’s!!
Kelly, I know they were scheduled for the Saturday night and twice on the Sunday for the Boulevard Trad Stage back in 2003, but did they get to go on before the rain made us adjourn, or are you referring to the Hotel Phillips thing?
I still consider the Hotel Phillips a part of the drenched festival of 2003. So yep! It was the first time I heard a bodhran solo like the one Tristan did! And Oisin did a fabo job on the fiddle. What a great musical group with great onstage chemistry! They are a force to be reckoned with!
Fair enough.
I was the last committee member to leave in the rain that day, having spent the final couple of hours directing arriving cars to the Hotel Phillips, but after the long year of working on the festival with so many that worked so hard, I was too upset to go myself. So I tend not to count it - in much the same way as I don’t believe in Napoleon Bonaparte because I never met him.
I can understand your reasoning for not going on to the Hotel Phillips, but I’m sorry for you that you missed it.
Sometimes magic happens out of adversity. I think if I live to be 100, that night may still rank as one of my most fun evenings ever. “Discovering” both Gaelic Storm AND Jameson’s for the first time may have influenced that reaction a bit, but the show in the H. P. bar of the Elders/Dubs/GS will always be one of my faves.
My biggest disappointment of “the festival that wasn’t” is that I didn’t buy the KCIF tshirt Friday night, and while I tried afterwards to get one by emailing some of the places that were supposed to be selling them, I was never able to do so.