Indeed. The dresses were pretty but obviously quite prohibitively expensive. The wigs simply looked, not only grotesque, but entirely irrelevant; distracting, and peculiarly wrong-note-striking. The music did not sound to me to have any relationship to any traditional Irish dance music I had ever heard.

This youtube video of The Chieftains and Tim O.Brien playing Shady Grove interpolated with Irish dance tunes ~~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw5Knvdtutk

~~ climaxes in several minutes of dancing worth 100 of anything seen in "Jig", visually, aurally and technique-wise. The same is true of many of the Chieftains' You-tube videos. Take your pick of any of them to see some real Irish dancing; not this bland mish-mash in curly blond wigs.

~Michael~