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WEEKEND FESTIVALS.


Get a jump on St. Patrick's Day

If you like shamrocks, leprechauns, bagpipes bagpipes
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a musical wind instrument in which sounds are produced in reed pipes by air from an inflated bag

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 or all of the above, the Los Angeles County Irish Fair & Music Festival is for you. The fair has something for everyone, with traditional Irish dance and music performed by Irish bands and bagpipers List of Bagpipers Uilleann Pipes
  • Kevin Briley
  • Ronan Browne
  • Willie Clancy
  • Troy Donockley
  • Johnny Doran
  • Séamus Ennis
  • Sean Folsom
  • Wilbert Garvin
  • Robbie Hannon
  • Paddy Keenan
  • Ronan Le Bars
  • Neil Mulligan
  • Sean McAloon
, and a leprechaun village where kids can discover the luck of the Irish. Stroll the largest Irish import street in California and dine on authentic Irish food offered throughout the fair. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $16 for adults, $12 for seniors and students, free for children 11 and under. A two-day pass is available for $26. First 500 visitors on Saturday get a free live shamrock, and first 1,000 visitors on Sunday receive free Renaissance Faire tickets. Pomona Fairplex, 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona. (310) 537-4240. www.la-irishfair.com.

Also happening this weekend:

Point Mugu State Park Point Mugu State Park is a large park located in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in Southern California. It is in the Western Santa Monica Mountains. The park can be accessed from the north in the Satwiwa Native American Indian Culture Center and from the south  Whale Festival: featuring live entertainment, whale-watching stations, arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. , music and food. Open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free, $10 parking. Sycamore Cove, Point Mugu State Park, 9000 W. Pacific Coast Highway Pacific Coast Highway may refer to:
  • Pacific Coast Highway (United States), a segment of State Route 1 in California
  • Pacific Coast Highway (New Zealand), a 420 kilometre highway http://www.newzealand.
, Malibu. (805) 488-1827.

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Date:Mar 10, 2006
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