Seasons: The Michigan Irish Music Fest
The seasons turn and you know summer is almost over when the Michigan Irish Music Festival hits town. It stays for a lovely 4 days the second weekend in September. You can eat, drink, listen to the story telling competition, hear school children play their fiddles en masse, watch elaborately costumed young people compete in step dance, attend a mock Irish Wake, compete in Highland Games, see a dog show of Celtic breeds (there’s more than the Irish Setter), have a quiet cuppa by a beautiful lake, but the heart of the festival is music.
To be clear; the heart of the festival is drinking and dancing while listening to Irish Music.
The Heart of Michigan Irish Fest; Scythian from DuneLight on Vimeo.
lol sounds very similar to Australian festivals but our kids tend to pop pills as well 😦
Yikes. Yeah, our kids pop pills at festivals. This one…wow…older people…mostly mid twenties to late 30’s in the pit where I was, but the people behind me were even older a lot of 40’s to 50’s and a few 60’s to 70’s.
lol sounds more like my kind of festival 🙂
Love that sound. So close to the music of my Breton ancestors… 🙂
Thanks for sharing.
I did not know you had Breton ancestors…I assumed you were in Spain…
Haha! No. I’m French. And living in Mexico… 😉
Goodness…you had me …I never looked closely..romance language, yes. Now that I think of your photos they could be the coast of Mexico…I assumed they were the coast of Spain or Portugal.
Are you on the Pacific or Atlantic?
Neither. I live in Mexico city. Up in the mountains. 🙂
Where do you shoot all the beach shots?
Pacific, generally. Though we haven’t been much lately. I like Ixtapa and Puerto Escondido. There might be (but I don’t recall all I’ve posted) African beaches (form my childhood). A bit of Asia (Thailand last December?) 🙂
I will have to check.
Cheers.
Love the sounds !!