Irish Fair Madness

Irish Fair is this weekend and aside from March Madness (St. Patrick's Day, not NCAA basketball), this is the busiest time of the year for the Irish in Minnesota. Since I'll be running my tail-feathers off playing for Mooncoin (ceili dancers), Knocknagow (more dancers), the Twin Cities Ceili Band (for . . . dancers!), the occasional Legacy gig, and a workshop, oh yeah, I'll be tired and thirsty. Feel free to give me a beer when you bump into me.

Yes, Flogging Molly will be there for you Irish head-bangers. So will a host of other musical and cultural groups, including the Tannahill Weavers. My personal favorite, and a latecomer to the table this year, is The Fuchsia Band. Great tunes, great songs, great talent, and they not only play music, they know their dances (which is something that I have encouraged other musicians to do)!

I was perusing through my Ireland photographs and decided to post this picture. Fuchsia is EVERYWHERE in Ireland, but mostly along the roads in the hedges (which is pretty much all I saw of Ireland while the car was moving). I was just playing around with the camera to see what kind of shot I could come up with and this was as lucky as I got.

More photos to come.