The North Texas Irish Festival 2007 was a blast. Preparing for and performing during the St. Patrick’s season has kept me busy so I haven’t been blogging much but things are slowing down so look for the updates to increase.
For Susan and I NTIF started out with a workshop held by Claire Zucker on clogging. It was very Sean Nos-like and quite a fun workshop.
From there we performed with the Emerald School (lots of video taken there), ran a dance workshop where we taught several figures from the Kilfenora Plain Set and followed up by calling the three-hour ceili to close out the festival day.
On Sunday we performed again with the Emerald School and then followed up by wandering around listening to music and shopping.
One new group (to us anyway) that we look forward to hearing more from is Sliabh Notes. They definitely play music that makes our feet want to start moving around.
More pictures and video are available in our gallery.