FEELING A BIT IRISH?Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard They celebrated St. Patrick's St. Patrick's or Saint Patrick's may refer to:
Rather, there were Irish fiddle music and Irish dancing, Irish food and Irish storytelling Storytelling Aesop semi-legendary fabulist of ancient Greece. [Gk. Lit.: Harvey, 10] Münchäusen Baron traveler grossly embellishes his experiences. [Ger. Lit. at the first Eugene Irish Cultural Festival. The event continues at noon today with events at the WOW Hall, Cozmic Pizza and the Eugene Public Library. Festival coordinator Mike Meyer said he hopes the alcohol-free nature of the festival will convince people that there's more to celebrating St. Patrick's Day than Guinness Stout. "I would like to think alcohol is not the first thing people think of when they think of Irish culture," he said. The festival instead focused on Irish music. Fiddlers Kevin Burke Kevin Burke is an Irish fiddler. He was born in London to parents from County Sligo in 1950. He took up the fiddle at age eight, eventually acquiring a virtuosic technique in the Sligo fiddling style. , Andre Brunet and Christian Lemaitre Christian Lemaitre is a French musician specialised in Breton traditional fiddle. He learned the instrument in his teens in Paris and later moved to Brittany. He joined Kornog in 1981 and later formed a Breton dance-band. headlined two shows at the WOW Hall Saturday, but music was abundant at all the venues. Attendance was sparse sparse - A sparse matrix (or vector, or array) is one in which most of the elements are zero. If storage space is more important than access speed, it may be preferable to store a sparse matrix as a list of (index, value) pairs or use some kind of hash scheme or associative memory. for the first act of the day, the Footnotes, but more people showed up for later events. Fiddler Linda Danielson and harpist Janet Naylor packed a conference room at the library with their sweet-sounding Irish jigs and reels. Down the street at the Strand/Cozmic Pizza, family activities, storytelling and Irish music was on tap. "I love how it's so inclusive for families," said Diane Giles, another festival organizer, who was sporting a green fedora. "It's a way to break some of the stereotypes. A lot of people associated St. Patrick's Day with green beer, but there's a lot more to it than that." Not everything came off without a hitch hitch to fasten by a knot, usually used to describe tying a horse to a post. . A St. Patrick's Day parade planned for 10 a.m. Saturday never materialized; Meyer said parade organizers never got organized. Meyer is hoping to build on the success of this first festival event in future years. "There's so much to celebrate in Irish culture," he said. "We're just giving people a taste of it this year." CAPTION(S): Sativa Jordan, 6, (left) and Mia Goodman, 7, dance to the music of fiddler Linda Danielson and harpist Janet Naylor at Eugene Public Library. Fiddler Tony Wright of the band Eider Eider, river, Germany Eider (ī`dər), river, 117 mi (188 km) long, rising S of Kiel, N Germany, and flowing N to the Kiel Canal before turning west and meandering to the North Sea at Tönning. plays at The Atrium as part of the two-day festival event. |
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