festival season is here again! it all starts around here down in cuyahoga falls. this is actually a nice little festival that is one of the only free ones left. this year the festival featured seven nations and the glengary bhoys, two staples of the festival circut. everybody was having fun as wendy and laura […]
parade the circle 2011
for those of you in cleveland who have not been to this event, you are REALLY missing something. in it’s 22nd year now, parade the circle draws approximately 70,000 visitors to the wade oval circle, right in the middle of the museums, including the art museum, botanical society, and natural history museum. starting at the […]
hessler street fair 2011
hessler 2011 provide to be both fun and bittersweet as getting to see the always fun carlos jones & the P.L.U.S. band work their magic over the crowd, and seeing the band mifune perform their LAST performance as a unit. for the rest of the photos, you can find them HERE
pittsburgh irish fest 2010
pittsburgh irish fest 2010 featured an absolutely god-awful traffic jam, and some serious rain on saturday night, but when it cam to the music, that was well worth the effort of getting to this festival. getting to see gaelic storm, scythina, the screaming orphans, and the makem and spain brothers are ALWAYS goo. to see […]
milwaukee irish fest 2010
after having been to the dublin irish fest in dublin, ohio (which gets over 105,000 people over 3 days) one would have THOUGHT i would have bee semi-prepared for the size and scope of the milwaukee irish fest! guess again! this festival is THE largest irish fest in the WORLD, reaching numbers of 200,000 over […]
cleveland irish fest 2010
why is is ALWAYS so hot when this fest rolls around every year? not only is the temperature hot, but so is the music. this year saw the screaming orphans, seven nations, and eileen ivers & immigrant soul return, but scythian made it’s cleveland irish fest debut. all seemed to be going well until mother […]
pittsburgh irish fest 2009
trying to find the pittsburgh irish fest was not quite as easy as it had been in the past, but after heading east out of town, through a neighborhood, across the river, and behind a costco and other shopping, we finally found it. it did not help that the city of pittsburgh is preparing for […]
dublin irish fest 2009
and as another weekend of the dublin irish fest has come and gone, and i try to wrap my head around all the fun things and amazing music (and musicians) that happened over the weekend, i will try to put it all down in a few words. when dave and i got down there, the […]