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06 Feb 02 - 02:03 PM (#643965) Subject: North Texas Irish Festival From: GUEST It's time to let evrybody know the 20th annual North Texas Irish Festival is just a few weeks away (2-3 March)! Go to out www.ntif.org for all the info! This year's lineup includes: Celtic Fiddle Festival Old Blind Dogs Seamus Kennedy Mick Moloney's Irish Music & Dance Festival Brian McNeill Sliabh Notes Glengarry Bhoys Paddy Keenan & Tommy O'Sullivan Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman Ed Miller Cavan Jigsaw bohola plus over 40 more local/regional performers and dance troupes! |
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07 Feb 02 - 12:08 PM (#644588) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: GUEST refresh |
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07 Feb 02 - 12:59 PM (#644612) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Wesley S I'll be there with the whole family in tow. Can we expect to see Jed, Guinnesschick, and other Mudcatters there too? Inquiring minds want to know. |
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07 Feb 02 - 01:18 PM (#644624) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Lonesome EJ Where will it be held? |
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07 Feb 02 - 01:31 PM (#644634) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: DougR I was wondering the same thing, LeJ. Guest, if you will read the thread about the "Beef Boys," you will see a message relating to Jed and Seamus who are going to be performing at the festival. DougR |
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07 Feb 02 - 01:40 PM (#644641) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Wesley S It's held in Dallas at Fair Park - next to the Cotten Bowl. |
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07 Feb 02 - 03:47 PM (#644726) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: DougR I know right were it is then. Could you move it to April 2 & 3 please? Thanks Wesley. DougR |
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07 Feb 02 - 04:11 PM (#644746) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Wesley S I'll work on it but don't hold your breath. Besides April is when we have the Main Street Arts Festival here in Ft Worth. |
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07 Feb 02 - 04:15 PM (#644747) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: GUEST,Richie heya, just wondering how you got this festival underway. im part of a group called the shannonsiders. we are from limerick, ireland. we travel to boston every march for paddy's day and play in the irish pubs around boston. do you hold this festival every year because we would be very interested in going? |
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07 Feb 02 - 04:40 PM (#644767) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: GUEST,McGrath of Harlow Hee is a link to the North Texas Irish Festival website.
Looks good. A little bit out of my reach, alas. But I hope we can expect reports back on how it goes. And of course that Áine is up for it. |
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08 Feb 02 - 12:52 AM (#645078) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: DougR Ah Wesley, you are a good man you are! I wouldn't expect that you would change the whole festival around my schedule but you are a darlin' for even trying' to. With Jed and Seamus there (though I haven't witnessed Seamus' artistry first hand Jed has told me he is a true artist) the festival is sure to be a success. Best to you and yours! DougR |
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08 Feb 02 - 10:36 AM (#645323) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: guinnesschik Hey, Wesley! We look forward to seeing you there. Eammon's Kitchen will be playing both days, as well, and maybe even an unplugged set....not to mention the "unofficial" jam session back at the casa. |
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08 Feb 02 - 11:05 AM (#645342) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Wesley S I'll be looking for you - you've been forwarned. And if the weather is good We'll be bring the little master of the house. |
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08 Feb 02 - 01:52 PM (#645442) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: guinnesschik Verrah cool. Don't be looking for purple hair this year. I WILL have my mandolin in tow. |
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08 Feb 02 - 01:59 PM (#645447) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: nosluap57 Hey McGrath of Harlow , sSnd me your contact info, and I will pass it along to the person who books acts for the festival. I hope you can make it next year- you'd have a great time! |
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08 Feb 02 - 02:08 PM (#645454) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: nosluap57 Hello to guinnesschick, Wesley, Tommy, and any other DFW areas mudcatters! I've been an NTIF attendee/volunteer mnay years now. I had sen threads about proevious year's, so I thought I should post info about this years..... Anyway, it might be fun to get together somewhere during the festival to say hey ot each other. IF we cannot hook up during the day, I know for a FACT I will be in the sessions at the hotel Fri/Sat night - just look for the fat bald guy with a bouzouki! (how many of those can there be?) Hope to see ya then! |
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08 Feb 02 - 02:11 PM (#645459) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: DougR A bouzouki, nosluap? There gonna be tanks at the festival? (Sorry) DougR |
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08 Feb 02 - 02:12 PM (#645460) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Wesley S Well I'm a corpulent hairy guy with an octave mandolin ! And Karen - what mandolin did you get? |
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08 Feb 02 - 02:33 PM (#645478) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: guinnesschik Woo-hoo, got me a Fender A-model. It has a pickup and volume and tone controls already installed. It was VERY inexpensive, but it sounds great plugged in and acoustic. I've been playing heck outta the darn thing, and it added a whole new dimession to my already very large guitar calluses. My fingertips are now in a constant state of peeling... Hey, we're gonna be at O'Dwyer's tonight with Red McWilliams. Why'n'cha come on out? |
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08 Feb 02 - 03:23 PM (#645502) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Wesley S I'd love to but I'm in charge of the master of the house tonight. So I'll be using my parenting skills { not that I'm complaining }. We'll see you at the festival. And if you know someone in the market for a Mid-Missouri Mandolin Co M-4 { their top of the line model } let me know. I need to sell it to finance some other purchases. |
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22 Feb 02 - 10:50 AM (#655323) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: GUEST,emily b I can't wait for NTIF. My band, Constant Billy from Houston will be performing, too. Right now we're scheduled to play at 7pm on Sat. and noon on Sunday. Please come by and introduce yourselves. It'll be great to see Eammon's Kitchen again and finally see Jed's solo act live. There are some awesome performers scheduled throughout the weekend. Plus tons of vendors ready to sell you all those CD's you'd ever want. See you there. Emily |
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22 Feb 02 - 12:01 PM (#655370) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: JedMarum This is a wonderful festival, and it just gets better every year. There are multiple satges with great music, dance, strories etc ... lots of vendors with interesting artwork and more. This is the nation's second biggest Irish Fest - and arguably the best! There will be 30,000 people in attendence over the 2 days, but the campus is large, and the atmosphere still feels intimate. In answer to questions about who's playing; I will be doing two shows solo, two with Eammons Kitchen and Seamus Kennedy will be putting up with me for a guest spot or two during his shows. PLEASE do try to say hello if you make one of the shows. It can be hard to visit when you're getting on/off stage at a busy festival, but I promise you; all of Mudcatters who are performing at NTIF really do want to at least say hello to fellow Mudcatters. Hope to see y'all there! |
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22 Feb 02 - 12:28 PM (#655400) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: nosluap57 Hey Jed & Emily Right now I'm worse then a kid before Christmas in anticipation of this year's festival. I'll stop by one of your shows and say hi. Any other mudcatters performing (I have seen Seamus Kennedy post here occaisionally)?
ps Let's hope we have good weather....
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22 Feb 02 - 01:56 PM (#655465) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Stilly River Sage Hmmm. I live in Fort Worth. Have done so for a dozen years, and have never made it over to Dallas' Fair Park. Looks like it's time to make the trip! (I've bought into Amon Carter's practice of never going to Dallas if I can help it). It would be nice to put faces to a few names. Maggie |
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22 Feb 02 - 02:10 PM (#655483) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Wesley S Maggie - I live in Ft Worth too. You need to check out the festival - it's really worth the trip to Dallas. I doubt that Amon would mind. Just don't forget to pack a lunch. |
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22 Feb 02 - 05:01 PM (#655596) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Stilly River Sage Exactly! I love that story! |
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22 Feb 02 - 05:18 PM (#655609) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: DougR And don't drink any of that Trinity River water either, Maggie! :>) DougR |
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22 Feb 02 - 10:43 PM (#655802) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Stilly River Sage Dallas has a very nice chunk of forest along the Trinity River that a lot of people have been working to preserve. I have been meaning to go tour the area with a friend very active in the cause. I think the forest is at or below the Elm Fork intersection, but am not 100% certain. But it's too late to say don't drink the water--there is a branch that of the Trinity that runs through the middle of Fort Worth. Amon Carter, owner of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for many years, had a bone to pick with "Dullest." He was so intent on competing with Dallas that he even refused to spend money for lunch when he had to go there. He took a sack lunch. Dallas has Fair Park and the Cotton Bowl, but Carter got Fort Worth Casa Mañana and the Will Rogers Exposition Center.
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22 Feb 02 - 10:44 PM (#655804) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Stilly River Sage Gotta proof these things better. . . |
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22 Feb 02 - 10:56 PM (#655811) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: DougR Yep, RRS, I'm aware of everything you wrote. I use to go to the Ft. Worth Fat Stock Show every year at the Will Rogers Memorial Colesium while I was in high schol. I didn't realize you folks in Ft. Worth had to drink Dallas water though. :>) DougR |
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23 Feb 02 - 01:47 AM (#655889) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Stilly River Sage Nope. Dallas is downstream from Fort Worth. It's the other way around. . . |
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25 Feb 02 - 05:44 PM (#657783) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: nosluap57 Who drinks water??? The only beverages I'm aware of at the festival are Guinness, Harp, and single malts (smuggled in of course!).
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25 Feb 02 - 11:19 PM (#657941) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: guinnesschik *Sigh* I know who has all the good smuggled stuff.;-) What a shame I have to give it up this year. Oh, well, I'll just have to play harder, drink less. |
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26 Feb 02 - 09:17 AM (#658158) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: MMario Anyone willing to pick me up the Corsairs new CD 'the White One' at the festival? I can send you a check for the cost plus shipping... |
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26 Feb 02 - 02:13 PM (#658346) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Wesley S For those who are interested the website www.ntif.org is back online { it was out of commision for awhile }and this weekends schedule is available. See you there. |
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26 Feb 02 - 11:53 PM (#658740) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Seamus Kennedy And when the NTIF is over, I'll be performing with Ed Miller at the Emerald Mist in Dallas, 8:00 p.m.Monday, March 4th . Jed is liable to show up, who knows? If any 'Catters are still coherent, come on out and say hi. Seamus |
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27 Feb 02 - 08:56 AM (#658948) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: MMario Emerald Mist is a nice venue - but do NOT use MapQuest to get directions there! (believe me, I know they don't give them correctly!) |
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27 Feb 02 - 08:58 AM (#658953) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: guinnesschik Ah, Seamus, I'm afraid ya' can't have Jed Monday night. We're starting a series of performances at the Fort Woth Flying Saucer that evening. Maybe I should remind him.... ;-) |
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27 Feb 02 - 09:52 AM (#658994) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: JedMarum Seamus - I'd love to be there at the Mist to see you and Ed, but we've got a committment across town (bummer). I am certain you'll have a great crowd, though. We've been talking it up with our North Texas friends. I'd be surprised if the place isn;t jammed! MMario - I'd be happy to pick up the new Corsair's CD for you ... now Karen, don't let me forget! |
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27 Feb 02 - 09:54 AM (#658997) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: MMario Jed - Thanks! PM me with an address to send you the $$ |
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27 Feb 02 - 10:00 PM (#659617) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: nosluap57 As long as we are talking about the Emerald Mist, there are two great pre-festival shows as well. Thursday it's Slaibh Notes Friday it's Old Blind Dogs If you go be sure to say thanks to Patti for supporting Celtic music. |
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03 Mar 02 - 10:57 PM (#662209) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Stilly River Sage There are a couple of events in North Texas that are locally known to attract bad weather. The North Texas Irish Festival is one of those (the Fort Worth Stock Show is the other) and this year proved no exception to the rule. Record breaking low temperatures on Friday and Saturday, and Saturday started with a lot of sleet in the region. Sunday was a bit better. How did things go in Dallas? SRS |
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04 Mar 02 - 10:08 AM (#662404) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: nosluap57 The cold weather, and icy roads in the morning, seemed to have an effect on the crowd on Saturday. That really was unfortunate, because all the stages were either in heated buildings, or inside tents which offered shelter from the viscious elements. Apart from a few travel problems for some of the bands, everything went fine. Sunday brought slightly warmer temps and a decent sized crowd. I did hear that beer slaes were nearly on par with last years - draw your own conclusions.... The band I was most impressed with this year, among the many superb ones in attendance, was bohola. A trio based out of Chicago, with Jimmy Keane on accordian, Sean Cleland on fiddle, and Pat Broaders on 'zouk and vocals. Their set was a fiery combination of reels and jigs at lightspeed, interspersed with some great singing. What set them apart from all the other great music was the passion they displayed on stage - their final set on Sunday was truly a marvel.
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04 Mar 02 - 10:12 AM (#662407) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Big Mick Great to hear that bohola was well received!! Pat Broaders is a very good friend of mine. In addition to the instruments mentioned by nosluap, he is also one of the finest Uilleann Pipers around. These lads are comers. Mick |
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04 Mar 02 - 11:58 AM (#662498) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: McGrath of Harlow Emerald Mist? Sounds like an Irish liqueur. With that inside you a bit of cold weather wouldn't hurt. "A fine fresh day" as they say when there's an Irish Hurricane.
I liked the positive tone of the website: "Our beverage managers have ensured us that Guinness does not freeze at 32 degrees, and in fact cool weather improves the flavor." |
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04 Mar 02 - 12:07 PM (#662507) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: JedMarum Well the dust is still settling for me, but I can give y'all a quick update. Eammons Kitchen had a couple of enjoyable sets over the weekend, likewise I had two solo sets that went well. I didn't catch Bola, but I heard good things about them. Likewise I heard Jim Flanagan and a Poor Man's Fortune each drew large enthusiastic crowds. I quite enjoyed the little bit of Smithfield Fair that I saw/heard; nice harmonies, great scottish tunes and songs. Top shelf bodrhan player and other instruments as well. I quite enjoyed Mick Maloney - whose piano accordian player got so frustrated with the sound man at point in the set-up he inquired, "so when did you go deaf?" LOL - the poor bastard on the console was having a hard time - but things got smoothed out. I have to say I was just floored by Maire Ni Chathasaigh & Chris Newman. Chris has got to be one of the finest guitar players to ever touch the instrument. Their music was varied from lovely trad tunes exquisitely arranged and performed to ragtime/jazz styles. They were truly delightful. Brian McNeill was another festival highlight. A world class fiddler and musician - a gifted songwriter and an easy 'this is who I am' stage presence, mesmerized his audiences with a variety of tunes and songs; original and traditional.
I was unluck in getting to see
But I have to tell you, that one of our very Mudcatters was a festival highlight. Seamus Kennedy was hot, and this was festival held in record breaking frigid temps (for TX, remember you northerners, we don't see freezing very often). Seamus played to nearly packed houses for every show, and he was ON. They loved him! Seamus could probably do the whole show and not play a single song and have the crowd loving it. But he treated the crowds to some great music as well. He did three shows out in the cold (enclosed) tents and one indoors to a good 400+ person audience. He sold lots of CDs and picked up lots of names for his mailing list - and probably got a few room keys as well! Seamus told each of the audiences about Mudcat, and gave them the URL. I suspect we'll have a few new faces at least peeking in. Seamus was also gracious enough, no downright generous to have me up on stage with him for a couple of songs. It certainly made my weekend. |
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04 Mar 02 - 12:13 PM (#662510) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: JedMarum maybe next year we could make this a Mudcat gathering event?? Somehow .... justa thought |
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04 Mar 02 - 12:18 PM (#662513) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: nosluap57 How about a Mudcat session after the Fetival closes on Saturday night??? |
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05 Mar 02 - 04:46 PM (#663265) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: JedMarum The festival closes on Sunday night. Sounds like a good idea. Did anyone make it out to see Seamus and Ed Miller? |
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07 Mar 02 - 12:52 PM (#664294) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: JedMarum I've heard the show Seamus and Ed Miller did after the festival on Monday was excellent. None of the DFW area Mudcatters (besides Seamus) made it? Come to think of it, I only saw two Mudcatters at the festival; nosluap57 and some pretty lady whose name I forget. Did any other Mudcatters get out to this Ice Festival? |
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07 Mar 02 - 01:24 PM (#664317) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Wesley S I'm afraid we didn't. It was just too cold and icy. I've only missed one in the last 10 or 12 years so I felt bad about it. I'll have to make up for it at the Main street Festival in Ft Worth. We're supposed to get to see Ladysmith Black Mumbazo. |
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07 Mar 02 - 04:40 PM (#664521) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: nosluap57 Jed Didn't make it to Seamus' show on Monday - way too trashed after the festival. I hear from others that did go that it was a great show.
Let's keep in mind that mudcat session on Sunday night next year...it's only 359 days away
Be seeing you around town.
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07 Mar 02 - 05:28 PM (#664570) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: JedMarum Wesley - I'd LOVE to see Ladysmith Black Mumbazo!! Good for you. And next year??? Mudcat will take over NTIF, at least after hours! |
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07 Mar 02 - 05:53 PM (#664594) Subject: RE: North Texas Irish Festival From: Wesley S Jed - It's a free concert. You can get details at www.msfwaf.org. Some other good acts too. Brave Combo, Double Trouble, lots more. Check it out. |