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Young Dubliners

Pure Irish magic, with three days of glorious Irish Rock!

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Wearing a Kilt is not mandatory, just pure fun

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Third Annual Get Shamrocked Irish Music Festival Set for Mid-September in Murrieta

Murrieta’s Town Square Park will once again be transformed into a World Class Music venue in just another few weeks. The Third Annual “Celtic Cochlea”, expanded this year to include a Friday Night Concert (Gates Open @ 5pm), will take place over a three day weekend celebrating the wonders of Irish and Celtic Rock from September 18 through the 20th.

From it’s inception in 2012 Get Shamrocked has captured the imaginations and hearts of California’s Celtic Music and Rock Fans! And for good reason; no other Festival of this perfect size with such incredible acts comes close to delivering such a stellar line up for such a value laden and fair ticket price!

The bands this year are all exceptional and all have a great following of SoCal and National Fans so a sold out crowd is YOUNG DUBLINERS expected!

Back for Third ApKUDOS to everyone who has a hand in this grand event! Special pearance at Get Shamthanks to the organizers Paul Little and Graham Judge of the Sham- rocked Festival! rock Irish Pub and Eatery and to Patrick Ellis of the Murrieta Cham- This Irish group is often ber of Commerce! These guys made this happen and they are to com- called the hardest working mended for their organizational skills and vision!

Celtic Band on the planet and

they do seem to be on the go a lot! They have toured the US, Europe and the rest of the Globe on a regular basis. In recent years, they have appeared on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live and had songs featured in TV

shows such as Sons Of Anarchy! They also tour extensively by themselves and as a headliner or as the opener for such a diverse list of artists as The Flaming Lips, Collective Soul, Jethro Tull, Johnny Lang and many more.

Get Shamrocked will have them soon one fine Sunday in September!! The Dubs were founded in Santa Monica by lead singer Keith Roberts just over 20 years ago and the rest as is said is Irish and Celtic Rock History! Since their inception, the Young Dubliners Continued to page 9

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Volume 23, Issue 5

Ninety Third Los Angeles County Fair Gets Ready for Labor Day Weekend Opening

Irish Arts & Entertainment The opinions expressed by our columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Irish Arts & Entertainment or its Editor and staff.

PUBLISHER & MANAGING EDITOR James M. McDonough

The FAIRPLEX Event and Exhibition Center in Pomona hosts America’s Largest and Best County Fair --- Gates Open this Friday! he Los Angeles County T Fair 2015 (LACF) returns as one of the largest, most diverse county fairs in the U.S. Evenings are cool every night at LACF as Luminasia lights up again with a massive walk-thru lantern experience. Try and find the newest fair mascot “critter” – a pig that looks like a sheep a (a shig? a peep?).

Treat your taste buds and

introduce your kids to the best Fair food and cuisine-ona-stick that you can only get once a year at the 93rd Annual LA County Fair! The World Class Venue is enormous with over 400 acres of fun to explore! Surprises and delight have beckoned folks to this California Extravaganza and Experience that has been an end of summer tradition since 1922!

The Hare and The Hounds

Always New and Inviting Attractions Too! You and your family can enjoy the divergence of pop culture and technology at Popnology, an interactive experience with 30,000 square feet of the coolest technology and science gadgets influenced by movies, music books, television and art. Have a soft spot for animals? LACF has more than 500 of the cutest, woo-

liest, funniest animals from around the world to snap that selfie with. Need to dance?

Grinding Gears dance club returns with your favorite DJs and live music. Or take a cool stroll through Mardi Gras at the Flower & Garden Pavilion.

Plan your day or weekend with us. Details and information at:

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Seaside to Present an Amazing Entertainment and the Best in Celtic Music and Dance!

The premier Highland Games and Scottish Music Festival held annually on California’s beautiful Central Coast in Ventura will be held this year from Friday to Sunday, October 9, 10 & 11!

he Seaside Highland T Games is probably the most anticipated event on the Celtic Calendar for thousands of Californians, and for good reason! The organizers work as hard as possible to constantly strive to make this event fresh and exciting each year. That was the plan before the first year and that is the principle that has guided John and Nellie Lowry and their exemplary crew of volunteers ever since. The location and venue help a lot too! Freeway close from all of California, easy parking and the AmtrakMetro Station within walking distance make this the easiest Games in the country to get to.

The weekend kicks off this year with a Whisky Tasting & Scottish evening at the Four Points Hotel in Ventura. Great entertainment and a generous flow of the venerated drink of the Scots always makes this a grand night. See the website for tickets, plan on coming at 5:00pm and spending the

the BEARDED SCOT CONTEST. The Seaside Games have teamed up with a new Vendor --- Roger Scott of Scotsman Beard Oil and will be conducting a “Hairy Highlander Contest” to determine the wearer of the best facial hair! Simple!

Just bring your beard, mustache, goatee or mutton chops to Roger’s Scotsman Beard Oil booth and sign up for the judging.

Where: Celtic Rock Stage When: 2:30pm each day What can I win: $25 cash grand prize plus Scotsman Beard Oil products and the • Large Men Throwing admiration of ALL! Anyone Stuff • Massed Pipe can enter, man, woman or bands • Scottish Fiddling child. Beard-making supplies • Competition • Scottish will be in the Children’s Glen!

Entertainers • Clan Tents The Fourth Annual Seaside • Children’s Glen Street Dance is back by • British and Scottish popular demand and we will Food • Highland be dancin’ on SUNDAY TOO! • Re-enactments • Dancing We’ll post a link to the dance • Dart Competition music and moves as soon as In addition, this year for the first time, Seaside offers Continued on page 10 evening. We recommend staying at one of the many hotels in the Ventura area which always role out the red carpet for the Seaside Games visitors, many offer a special discount.

For Saturday and Sunday, the action shifts to the beautiful Ventura County Fairgrounds.

Gates are open at 9:00am both days. The website for the Seaside Games is exceptionally well organized and gives you a great summary of what you will find at the games with sections for everything offered including:

The Pike at Rainbow Harbor, 71 S. Pine Ave., Long Beach, CA 90802 Phone: (562) 437-8300 www.aulddubliner.com

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St. Ambrose Feis

ver 700 Irish Dancers with O their families are expected to attend the 23rd Annual St. Ambrose Fall feis at the Westin LAX on September 26th and 27th, 2015. The first St. Ambrose Feis was held at St. Ambrose Church Hall on Fairfax in West Hollywood in September 1990 with under 100 entries. International judges - John Carey, former lead of Lord of the Dance, from UK; Mary Sweeney from Munich, Germany; Bertie Roddy originally from Dundalk join husband and wife team, Marie Moore Cunniffe and Frank Cunniffe from New Jersey (originally Ireland) and Sharon Whelan

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MacSweeney from San Francisco. Musicians are Pat King from Toronto and Merv Bell from Edmonton.

Championship competitions Saturday; Solo, team and adult grade competitions Sunday.

No admission charge.

Tireless practice and dedication to the art of Irish Dance has resulted in dancers from the Cleary School of Irish Dance Winning the recent Nationals.

THE CLEARY SCHOOL of IRISH DANCE: The Cleary School can trace its roots to 1988 when founder Margaret Cleary ADCRG introduced Irish Dance classes

The Cleary School of Irish Dance Senior Team Won the Nationals in Providence, RI in July!

An Amazing Story of Growth and Success

for adults at St. Ambrose Parish Hall in West Hollywood. The adult groups were aptly known as The St. Ambrose Ceili Dancers and grew to be one of the best-known Irish Dance groups in Southern California winning numerous awards and competitions.

In 1993, Cleary added classes for children. Classes are now offered for students of all ages and levels. They study the traditional art form of Irish dance (reels, jigs and hornpipes) in both soft and hard shoes. They perform regularly at events throughout the Southland and have appeared many times on local and national television as well as Irish TV (RTE). They have featured in the Disney video “Doing the Jig with Tig”.

Members of the group have performed with the Chieftains, the Irish Rovers and Cherish the Ladies to name but a few of the many groups with whom they have worked. In addition, under the direction of Cleary and Katie Dean, the Cleary School has undertaken numerous choreography assignments for TV, film and commercials and has worked

very closely with the Disney Corporation on various projects. Cleary’s daughter, Katie Dean, a graduate of the University of Rochester, New York works with her. Dean was also a champion dancer and she now teaches as a qualified TCRG. Cleary Irish Dance is truly a family run business and all dancers are welcomed as members of The Cleary Irish Dance family. Cleary Irish Dance is proud to represent the traditions and culture of Ireland in Los Anges.

About Margaret Cleary, Directory, Cleary Irish Dance

Margaret Cleary was born in London of Irish parents (Tipperary and Kerry), the eldest of five girls, all champion dancers.

She commenced dancing at the age of 8, and during her competitive years won countless solo championships, including All-England title and All-Ireland awards. She was a member of the Kavanagh senior figure dance team that were World Champions three consecutive years. Margaret attained her teaching

accreditation (TCRG) with the Irish Dancing Commission in Dublin in 1976 and subsequently taught children in London while studying for her B.A. in Business at a London university.

In 1984, Cleary moved to Los Angeles and she has been incredibly busy ever since.

Her focus on Irish Dance has made her a legend in many Irish circles In addition to teaching both adults and children’s classes; Cleary is in constant demand to adjudicate Irish dance competitions throughout North America and Ireland. She has judged National events in the US as well as overseas including the World Championships in Ireland. In 1994, Margaret Cleary was recognized for her contributions to the Irish Culture and the Irish Community in Southern California by Mayor Richard Riordan, as an Irish Honoree of the Year. More recently, 2014 she was awarded Irish Woman of the Year by the Irish Fair Foundation and City of Los Angeles.

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The View Ireland Yeats' Shade

By Maurice Fitzpatrick

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has just finished celebrating his 150th birthday. In the case of most of us, death has a pesky way of interfering with the onward march of our social calendar. The celebrants of Yeats' sesquicentennial birthday, however, are quite unperturbed by the fact that the birthday boy is no longer with us. Between public readings, Georgian houses in Dublin enlivened with Yeatsian spirits and seances, academic conferences and studies, Yeats' 150th has been a hooley all round.

This blowout may risk the charge of being crass and ex-

ploitative, but not a bit of it. For Yeats, death itself was simply a man-made construct that any art worthy of the name could outface.

Yeats also claimed that death was an inexhaustible fount of inspiration for good poetry: “sex and death are the only things that can interest a serious mind.”

Such high-mindedness forced a wedge between he and some of the Irish reading public. In re-

Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul, Aye, sun and moon and star, all, And further add to that That, being dead, we rise, Dream and so create…

(The Tower)

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W illiam Butler Yeats, who was born on June 13th 1865,

sponse to this, Yeats, more than any other writer, was responsible for the creation of a vision of Ireland that bore scant relationship to the country where peasant farmers struggled under the imperial and clerical kosh.

He was explicit about his view

of Ireland's proper identity: “A Druid land, a Druid tune.” He wanted to create an audience for it too, his vehicle being the Abbey Theatre, the new national theatre of an emergent nation forged partly to reflect his view of what Ireland truly should be.

All the blather about fairies and a whimsical, poetical peasantry would be difficult to bear were it not for Yeats' visionary brilliance in imagining the land anew: Imagining a man, And his sun-freckled face And grey Connemara cloth (The Fisherman).

Yeats' vision of Ireland became enmeshed in the particularly troubled politics of the republic. His lines on the Easter 1916 Uprising, in response to the action of rebels who seized

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a handful of significant buildings in central Dublin including the General Post Office and proclaimed the republic, will be quoted ad nauseam next year during the centenary; Yeats' marrying of ancient Celtic myth with radical, revolutionary politics in his later verse will be less discussed and less understood: When Pearse summoned Cuchulain to his side. What stalked through the Post Office? (The Statues) In his later years, the civicminded Yeats became, in the words of one of his biographers, Brenda Maddox, 'a virtuoso of the committee table', and he got appointed to the Senate. If a censorious and patronising tone Continued on page 26

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Continued from page 3 were always able to stand out from, and eventually to head the pack of evolving Irish rockers. Early on they created a distinct sound and style and they continue to refine and notch up their music.

Their secret seems to be an ability borrowed from Greek philosophy; the Dubs always display a “consistency of purpose”. Their purpose is obviously to deliver rousing Irish tunes and to pass out contagious fun. The banter, selfkidding and appreciation of their audience all adds up to a fantastic stage presence and great show! Band members today are founding member

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and Dublin native; Keith Roberts, Brendan Holmes (Bass/ Vocals). Bob Boulding (guitar/Vocals), Dave Ingraham (Drum/Percussion), and Chas Waltz (Violin - Keyboard Harp - Mandolin - Vocals)

www.youngdubliners.com

FLATFOOT 56

A new band this year for Get Shamrocked, these Celtic Punk Rockers were formed in Chicago in 2000. According to them they play a “”positive-na-

tured brand of hardcore-tinged Celtic punk”! These guys, all Chicago natives achieved nationwide attention with their first two label-backed records, 2006’s Knuckles Up and 2007’s Jungle of the Midwest Sea. These releases built on a heavy dose of previously established regional notoriety, helping the band gain steam early on. In 2010, their third album’s Black Thorn truly helped them break into the Celtic Punk Spotlight with great sales and attention on the coveted Billboard Charts. A fourth album TOIL garnered still more new fans and put them in the company of some of the best Celtic bands of any persuasion and time. It also showed Flatfoot 56’s ability to craft outstanding lyrics and good music way beyond the reach of most of the slush offered up as punk.

Flatfoot 56 consists of front-

man Tobin Bawinkel (vocals/guitar), brothers Justin (drums) and Kyle (bass), along with Eric McMahon (bagpipes/ guitar) and Brandon Good (mandolin/guitar).

GAELIC STORM

Another great band appearing for the first time at Get Shamrocked to the delight of their SoCal fans also started in Santa Monica some 20 years back!

Matching Sweaters is the title of Gaelic Storm’s latest and Tenth CD. Not sure if it is a nod to the Clancy Brothers or the High Kings or if they just like sweaters but it doesn’t matter as it is

terrific and one of their best!

This crew is as imaginative and as prolific as any World Music group around today!

They have been on the Billboard Charts more than any other Irish Band!

They work hard, play a lot of dates and although quite down to earth and personable to their fans; they obviously enjoy the well-deserved adulation that is heaped upon them. We were lucky enough to see this band back in the day in Santa Monica and they have always put on a rollicking show, always chatted up the audience and best of all always given the impression that they were happy to be there. Gaelic Storm are great entertainers well as gifted musicians and songwriters. You can see them on Saturday at Get Shamrocked in Murrieta.

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Seaside Highland Games

Where: Seaside Park, Ventura County Fairgrounds - 10 W Harbor Blvd., Ventura, CA When: October 9 - Whisky Tasting & Scottish evening at the Four Points - 5:00 pm till 10:00 pm October 10 & 11, 2015- THE GAMES 9:00am to 5:00pm

www.seaside-games.com

Continued from page 3 they’re available, so check back to the website often for the latest.

And finally a message to Irish Arts & Entertainment Readers from the Seaside Chief, our good friend, John Lowry, “We are excited to bring to you this great Scottish/ Celtic Festival! The Festival atmosphere will transport you to the Scotland of yesterday and of today and will lay before you the music, dance, games, food and drink of that great culture. Please come and enjoy!

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Scotland’s Tannahill Weavers will bring their dynamic, traditional Celtic music SoCal to the Ventura County Fairgrounds in October!

Brian Boylan Irish Born Artist

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historic weaving industry and local poet laureate Robert Tannahill, the group has made an international name for its special brand of Scottish music, blending the beauty of traditional melodies with the power of modern rhythms. Over the years the Tannies have been trailblazers for Scottish music, and their tight harmonies and powerful, inventive arrangements have won them fans from beyond the folk and Celtic music scenes - their versatile piper Lorne MacDougall arranged and performed for for the 2012 Disney Pixar movie "Brave" under the leadership of Patrick Doyle, and for Dreamworks’ “How to Train Your Dragon 2". They are firmly established as one of the premier groups on the concert stage; from reflective ballads to footstomping reels and jigs, the variety and range of the material

“An especially eloquent mixture of the old and the new.” -New York Times

sembles in the World! Their diverse repertoire spans the centuries with ancient instrumentals, topical songs, original ballads and lullabies and their trademark humorous tales of life in Scotland.

Their music demonstrates to old and young alike the rich and varied musical heritage of the Celtic people. These versatile musicians have received worldwide accolades consistently over the years for their exuberant performances and outstanding recording efforts that seemingly can't get better... yet continue to do just that.

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they perform is matched only by their enthusiasm and lively Celtic spirits.

fine Celtic Rock at its best!!

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classics will burrow deep into your subconscious, leaving lasting impressions of their music and lyrics.

With their own style of Celtic Fusion, these talented musicians command a level of energy unparalleled to those within the genre.

On January 1, 2015, the band released their latest CD, We Came to Fight, which was produced by Jeff Tamalier (of Tower of Power fame). The CD is garnering lots of attention and airplay on Celtic Radio stations across the Country and abroad. The title track, “We Came To Fight,” is picking up steam along with “21st Century Irishman” and “Highland Call”. The CD includes ten tracks of mostly self-penned, bagpipe led, celtic-punk’n’roll. 67 Music review stated, “The songs, production values and recording rival anything I’ve heard from them to date. There are no snoozer tracks here, it’s a sonic ride from start to finish. ‘We Came To Fight’ is a fun, rockin’ album and will likely remain in my player for quite some time - pipe wrench optional.” Celtic Radio gives The Angry Brians 5 Stars and comments, “With tracks

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The AnGry Brians formerly 1916, to Headline the Celtic Rock Stage at Seaside.

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Continued from page 9 bers Patrick Murphy from Cork and Steve Twigger. The now well-seasoned “New Guys” are Pete Pervis, Ryan Lacey and Kiana Weber.

Check our their impressive website for albums, goodies, some grand band info and a chance to join their “Street Team”

www.gaelicstorm.com

THE MAHONES

Another amazing Punk Irish Group takes to the Get Shamrocked Stage in September proudly trailing the dust of the 30 plus countries that they have performed in. Like the Dubs and Gaelic Storm, this band started 20 plus years ago plying their trade in pubs.

The Mahones were formed by Finny McConnell on St. Patrick’s Day in 1990, and have been working on their own brand of Irish punk ever since.

Other band members are: Dom “The Bomb” Whelan, Katie Kaboom, Sean Winter, Sean “Riot” Ryan and a rotating lineup of fantastic musicians.

They have won worldwide acclaim since their humble start! Some of the Awards include: *2014 Winner for Best Celtic Punk Album Punk.ie (The Hunger & The Fight)* *2013 Sirius XM

Independent Music Award Nominee – Best Punk Band* *2012 Independent Music Award Winners for Best Punk Album (The Black Irish)* “With songs that have become the essential soundtrack to every punk, young and old, The Mahones have found themselves growing with every year, and are now headlining major festivals around the world, and sharing the stage with their musical heroes. The Mahones are proud to have a long list of TV (Lost Girl, Castle, Killjoys) and movie appearances (The Fighter, Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy, Celtic Pride, Dog Park) from their growing repertoire of Irish punk classics. For the past 25 years, The Mahones have released a slew of successful albums, and are world-renowned for an energypacked, electrifying live show that has garnered them a worldwide base of dedicated fans.”

area and are well known and popular on the Pub and Festival circuit in SoCal. “The five-piece band is fronted by Eric Ree, who has the ability to engage the crowd with his powerful voice, solid guitar playing and quirky sense of humor. Dueling instrumentalists, Frank LaBlanc on Mandolin and Robert Keysers on fiddle, bend the boundaries of traditional tunes by adding their own influences and style to the music. Bass player James Kee and drummer Tod Warren make up the powerful rhythm section and pulse of the band.

The five distinct elements make up a band that is developing their own rules for what constitutes an Irish band and creating a sound that is truly their own. The band has developed a fan base that is dedicated to the idea that the way the American Wake plays Irish music is the way Irish music should be played.

The American Wake are: Eric Ree – Vocals, Rhythm

Guitar Frank LaBlanc – Mandolin, Mandola, Vocals James Kee – Bass Guitar Robert Keysers – Fiddle, Vocals Tod Warren – Drums, Vocals. www.theamericanwake.com

CRAIC HAUS

Another band that technically got it’s start in Santa Monica where they played their first show opening for the Bay City Rollers in December of 2004.

A trio consisting of father and son and friend: they really hail from Clairmont, CA. CRAiC HAUS according to their official bio was formed in 2005 and consist of Danny Oberbeck (from the original LOST CAUSE) on drums, mandolin, penny whistle and lead vocals, Dylan Blue

(Danny’s son) on guitar, mandolin and backing vocals and Dylan’s high school friend Julian Johnson (from Jonny Come Lately) on King Double bass and accordion.

They are the true pioneers of SHAMROCKABILLY and this grand mix of Irish and American roots music has served them and the their music loving fans quite well for over 10 years now. Another group that works and plays hard, they have travelled and toured extensively and have several very good albums to their credit.

Another distinction, they will be the only band at Get Shamrocked that invented a genre; “Shamrock A Billy”!

Our readers are sure to enjoy this fusion of Irish/Celtic/ Country and Bluegrass, be sure to catch their shows as they put on a highly versatile and entertaining performance every time! www.craichaus.com Continued to page 17

www.themahones.com

THE AMERICAN WAKE

This true to their roots Irish American Band has a unique sound and a good natured energy that encapsulates an understanding of Irish Music, Classic Rock and the emerging punk-rock sounds of the 1980 & 90s. They are based in the Orange County- Long Beach

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A} Sacred Art by Steve O’Loughlin; LA based Celtic Artist.

B} The always popular band Dublin4 were one of the highlights at the Big Irish Fair in Long Beach: We caught them in the VIP Tent between performances, band members are from L to R: Paul Carr, Simon Quinn, Mark Lambe and Darren Corcoran.

C) Marcus Fox of Irish Film America, Los Angeles and his sister Caoimhe Fox, a publishing executive from Dublin, at the Big Irish Fair in June.

D) Keith Roberts of the Young Dublliners and Tim Conway, Jr from KFI AM 640 in the VIP tent at the Irish Fair in Long Beach in June.

E) Anne Colburn and her son Sean West at the Big Irish Fair.

F) This rare collectors auto was made in Ireland in the late 1950s. The classic car was a popular exhibit at the Big Irish Fair!

G) The Irish Import Shop in Hollywood has an extraordinary array of Irish imports and gifts on sale throughout the year. One of our readers may well become the new owner as the business is For Sale, See Page 2 of this issue.

H) Ron Cody, Thom MacNamara, Charlie Ezelle and Tom Kirk at the Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Pipes and Drums’ 4th Annual “Cigars Under the Stars” Fundraiser at Santa Anita Park in August, 2015.

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COSTCO® FAMILY PACK $62.99 4 Fair single-day admission tickets 44 ride and game tickets* 1 parking pass * Carnival rides and games require between 3-15 tickets each, subject to change without notice.

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California - Irish Community Calendar - By Date Concerts • Musical Events • Classes • Irish Dance • Socials • Special Events • Theatre SEPTEMBER Now through Sept. 19

Celtic Art Show with the works of acclaimed LA Based Artist Steve O’Loughlin. See Feature this issue page 20.

The Wilde Thistle in Palms

certs, attractions and competitions! FAIRPLEX in Pomona.

www.lacountyfair.com

SHAMROCK PUB STAGE IN SEPTEMBER Just a few of the great shows lined up at the World Famous Shamrock in Murrieta! .....

September 6, 4:00pm

Key of Whiskey with the wonderful Kathy Alonzo on fiddle...

Joined by three other very talented musicians, this truly is a great Irish traditional band!

Friday, September 11 9:00pm

Friday, September 4

6:00pm The American Wake perform at the Orange International Street Fair over Labor Day Weekend 112 East Chapman Info: 714 -633-4816

www.orangestreetfair.org LA County Fair at Fairplex September 4 September 27

Los Angeles County Fair Annual event opens Labor Day weekend & continues over four weeks. Family Friendly Fun!!

Includes entertainment, con-

with special guest Andy Scott and friends. Scottish Country Dancin, and Irish Dance exhibition. The Apple and Thistle Music Festival are held at Snow-Line Orchards during apple season. Food is for sale including delicious “apple cider mini-donuts” If you are interested in performing call; 909 881-3982 This event is FREE no fees paid or asked.

This is also a non-perishable food drop-off event for the childhood cancer foundation.

More info: 909 425-8427.

Snow-Line Orchard 39400 Oak Glen Rd. Oak Glenn, CA

The Diddley Idols

The Shamrock has done it again bringing you some more Irish magic to our stage. The Diddley Idols will make it a full on party set as they play Irish party tunes and drinking songs as well as contemporary modern classic pop tunes that will have the Shamrock jumping.

Sunday, September 13 First Sunday NFL Games of the Season. See Ad this issue!

Complete Schedule, please visit:

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Saturday, September 12 10:00am to 4:00pm

Fourth Annual Apple and Thistle Celtic Music Festival

A great family event and Free to the public Six hours of Traditional Scottish Music, Pipers

Friday, Saturday & Sunday: Sept. 18-20

Get Shamrocked Irish Music Festival Murrieta, CA. See full page ad this issue on page 13.

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3:00pm to 4:00pm

Courtyard Concert with Sportive Tricks

Muldoon’s Irish Pub 202 Newport Center Dr. Newport Beach, CA 949 640-4110

www.muldoonspub.com www.sportivetricks.com Saturday, September 19 8:00pm

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Irish Traditional Tunes, Originals and more!

The Wilde Thistle 3456 Motor, at Palms, West Los Angeles, CA

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Sunday, September 20 2:30:pm

Sportive Tricks and Three of a Kind Cover charge of $15 includes both bands Coffee Gallery Backstage 2029 N. Lake Altadena, CA 626-798-6236

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Join the band afterwards at Slaters 50/50 for burgers & beer; not a show just a chance to hang out together.

Virginia Morris presents

September 25 to 27 Irish Film Los Angeles 2015 Contemporary Irish

Cinema Program TBA. USC School of Cinematic Arts 900 W. 34th. St. Los Angeles, CA

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Saturday & Sunday September 26 & 27 St. Ambrose Feis

Hosted by the St. Ambrose Irish Dance Association, Inc. (A non-profit organization) The Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel 5400 West Century Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90045 888-627-9085 **Feis details:

OCTOBER Friday, Saturday & Sunday October 9, 10 & 11 Seaside Highland Games

Open Both Days from 10:00am to 4:00pm Features and Friday details throughout this issue! The premier Scottish Event on the Central California Coast!

Friday, October 5:00pm till 10:00pm Whisky Tasting & Scottish evening at the Four Points Hotel Saturday & Sunday Scottish & Celtic Music, Scottish & Irish Dancing Pipers, Pipe Band Competitions, fiddle Competition-- Sanction Highland Games with Scottish

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California - Irish Community Calendar - By Date Concerts • Musical Events • Classes • Irish Dance • Socials • Special Events • Theatre Continued from page 14 Heavy Athletics Celtic & Irish Vendores and so much more...

See full page ad on back page.

Seaside Park Ventura County Fairgrounds, 10 W Harbor Blvd, Ventura, CA More info and tickets online:

www.seaside-games.com Sunday, October 4 Starts at 2:00pm

Irish Art Show featuring the works of Irish born/ LA Based artist Brian Boylan

Official Opening & Reception!

Door Prize Raffle at 6:00pm Complimentary Appetizers Irish Butter Coffee Samples The Wilde Thistle 3456 Motor at Palms West Los Angeles, CA SPECIAL NOTICE! Coming this Season... ONCE!

RIVERDANCE 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR & RAIN A very special British Irish Ticket Package goes on sale soon!

www.HollywoodPantages. com Pantages Box Office (opens daily at 10am) PANTAGES THEATRE 6233 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028

Check Website for courtyard Concerts and shows by the ...

House Irish Duo BLEU DEUX

202 Newport Center Dr Newport Beach, CA 949 640-4110

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SARAH MCQUAID

Sept.-Oct. U.S. Tour & CA Performances in Support of her Critically Acclaimed New Album Walking Into White. Tour starts on

Sept. 11, check the website for all dates. www.sarahmcquaid.com

Hard on the heels of her Cornwall Folk Festival performance, MCQuaid will be flying out to the USA for a two-month, coast-to-coast 36-show tour, then returning just in time for her first of 22 UK dates on October 30th.

Tuesday, October 13

Fiddlers Crossing -- 206 East F Street, Tehachapi, CA 93561 661-823-9994 -- Tickets $20 -- 7pm (Doors 6:30pm) http://fiddlerscrossing.org Refreshments included with ticket.

Wednesday, October 14

City of Camarillo Public Library -- 4101 Las Posas Road, Camarillo, CA 93010. Phone: 805-388-5222 -- Tickets Free! -- 7pm (Doors 6:30pm) www.camarillolibrary.org

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Friday, October 16

San Diego Folk Heritage -- Templar’s Hall, 14134 Midland Road, Poway, CA 92064. Tickets $18 (Members $15) -- 7:30pm (Doors 7pm) http://sdfolkheritage.org In addition to her Friday evening concert, Sarah will also be giving a 90-min. DADGAD guitar workshop www.sarahmcquaid.com/workshops.html on Sunday October 18 at 11:30 in The Great Room, next to the park office in Old Poway Park, 14134 Midland Rd, Poway, CA 92064. Workshop cost $35 www.meetup.com/Poway-Folk-Circle/events/224318120/ for more info. For more info on the concert, visit

http://sdfolkheritage.org

Saturday, October 17

The Living Tradition Concert Series -- Anaheim Downtown Community Center, 250 E Center Street, Anaheim, CA 92805. Phone: 714-955-3807 -- Tickets US$16 (Members $13, U18 free with paid adult) -- 7:30pm (Doors 7pm)

www.thelivingtradition.org For our readers in Arizona: Friday, October 21 Flagstaff Friends of Traditional Music -Episcopal Church of the Epiphany 423 N Beaver St, Flagstaff, AZ 86001

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Line Up For:

QUEL BORDEL

Well known to Shamrock Irish Pub and Eatery patrons and Get Shamrock fans; this Euro-Gypsy band has a distinct sound and a great stage presence. Welcome back this highly entertaining band of serious musicians who are now an integral part of Get Shamrocked! More: w w w. q u e l b o r d e l . c o m

Ramshackle Army New to most of us in Southern California, we are looking forward to hearing this Celtic Punk band from Melbourne, Australia. Critically acclaimed and revered by many around the World, this dynamic group is expected to bring a lot to the party!! Good on Paul & Get Shamrocked for bringing them in! They are: Gaz - Vocals Kat - Fiddle Nath - Guitar James - Bass Chad Blaster - Drums Josh - Banjo/Mandolin. On Facebook: w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / theramshacklearmy/ info?tab=page_info

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WHISKEY OF THE DAMNED

These rising stars of the Celtic Rock World will open Get Shamrocked on Friday!

Formed in 2010 and based in Milwaukee, they have earned a place on many a festival stage and have a very loyal following throughout the Midwest. The band also just released an album, Monsters Are Real!

They are: Eoin McCarthy Guitar/Vocals/Bagpipes. Gina Romantini - Fiddle/Mandolin/ Vocals/Melodica. Matt Schuetz - Bass/Vocals/Drums. Andrew David Weber- Drums/Vocals/ Various other instruments.

WHISKEY SUNDAY

They list their home as Midwest, US but are based in LA. This band has great promise as they are grounded in solid traditions of Irish and Americana music, mores and culture! The group is made up of: Founder, Patrick Rieger, guitar, bodhran Deidre Moore, harp, harmonica Olivia Sandoval, Upright Bass JR Nutt, mandolin, banjo. More on Facebook and... www.whiskeysundayband.com

New to most of us in Southern California, we are looking forward to hearing this Celtic Punk band from Melbourne, Australia. Critically acclaimed and revered by many around the World, this dynamic group is expected to bring a lot to the party!! Good on Paul & Get Shamrocked for bringing them in! They are: Gaz - Vocals Kat - Fiddle Nath - Guitar James - Bass Chad Blaster Drums Josh - Banjo/Mandolin On Facebook: www.facebook.com theramshacklearmy/ info?tab=page_info

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The Celtic Camera One of the most popular and talented Family Groups in America, CELTIC SPRING will share their amazing Fiddle and Dance program at Seaside!

Please drop by our booth at Get Shamrocked in Murrieta and the Seaside Games in Ventura.

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At the Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Pipes and Drums’ 4th Annual “Cigars Under the Stars” Fundraiser, Pipe Major Scott Walton and his wife Jessie.

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The organizers of the Seaside Highland Games and Celtic Music Festival (above) are out to host the very best event in their history according to the Founders, John and Nellie Lowry. Since the inception of the Seaside Highland Games in 2001, the Lowrys, their very able volunteers and all members of the organization have always worked hard to deliver a first rate Scottish and Celtic experience for everyone who has the good fortune to attend. See ad back for details on the Seaside Highland Games coming October 11 & 12th.

MOST THURSDAYS Ken O’Malley,

Caber Toss is gaining popularity each year in all classes of competition at the Seaside Highland Games.

Solo Show Virtuoso Balladeer & Songwriter Appears on a regular basis for an after work concert.

Drop by and see why both the Auld Dubliner and O’Malley are on the top of their game!

The Auld Dubliner Irish Pub 71 South Pine St. Long Beach, CA 562 437-8300

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The rest of the incredible Third Annual Get Shamrocked Line Up includes these bands....

THE BLACK DONNELYS

Phenomenal Duo from Dublin, who now play in Las Vegas and SoCal.

THE MIDNIGHT SATELLITES

formerly known as Master Splinter & the Shredders.They frequently play at The Shamrock in Murrieta. Check the Get Shamrocked schedule online for their performance times.

KELTIC COWBOYS Arizona’s premier

Irish Rock band. Band members are: Frank Mackey, Lead Vocals, Highland Bag Pipes, Banjo, Mandolin, Harmonica and Accordian.; Patrick Flanagan, Guitars & Vocals; Laura Russ, Fiddle, Vocals and Percussion; Paddy Broderick, Bass Guitar and Vocals and on drums, Matt Myers. www.kelticcowboys.com

BRICK TOP BLAGGERS

A band that masterfully bridges the gap between Celtic folk music and punk rock! They have created a distinctive sound that seamlessly blends traditional tunes played on accordion, fiddle, bagpipes, and mandolin, with roaring guitars and rock-solid bass and drums. The result is their own intelligent, exuberant brand of Celtic rock that is always original!

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The Wilde Thistle

Celtic Cafe and Pub Hosting Celtic Art Show

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“My artwork combines Celtic designs and other decorative motifs with contemporary imagery.

I often draw upon my local community for inspiration.

Therefore, freeways, Latin culture, jet airliners and social themes interlace together in a swirling celebration of color and rhythm.”

Steve O’Loughlin (shown on right) the artist and attendee for the Art Show opening at The Wilde Thistle, pose with Ed Ferrer and his sister Lupe Pinzon.

The Wilde Thistle is located at 3456 Motor Ave. in L.A.

www.wildethistle.com www.stevenoloughlin.com

Steve O’Loughlin

he works of acclaimed Irish-American Artist Steve O’Loughlin are currently on display at the Wilde Thistle located in the Palms District of Los Angeles; the public is invited to drop by anytime to see and enjoy this visually stunning collection of Celtic Art. Open for less than two years. The Wilde Thistle is a family run business, the brainchild of Caity Wallace who has had considerable experience in running a tea room and shop.

It is a nice cozy place with great food and ambiance and well worth a visit on it’s own merits. Aside from hosting Art Shows, the cafe & pub has a very good schedule of entertainment and events each month.

O’Loughlin moved to LA after getting a formidable education in the arts with a BFA from the California College of Art and a Masters from the San Francisco Art Institute. He now resides in Westchester with his wife, Lynda and their two children, Haley 19 and Neil, 14.

O’Loughlin is an amiable and intelligent guy who has won acclaim as a multi-faceted artist: painter, sculptor and musician. His latest works have been in the realm of public art and he is now working on sacred art for Holy Nativity Church in Westchester. The art on display by O’Loughlin is very contemporary Celtic inspired with an imaginative whimsy that is unmatched by any other artist. About it O’Loughlin explains...

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IRISH SCREEN AMERICA Irish Screen New York has expanded and will henceforth operate under the name of Irish Screen America. The expanded group will continue it’s well respected Irish Film New York, with a festival of contemporary films, web shows, animation and video games in New York and now Los Angeles.

A Los Angeles Screening at USC will take place in September.

(See Calendar this issue). The Irish Screen America New York Festival runs from October 2nd-4th, 2015 and is co-presented

by Glucksman Ireland House NYU. The complete program will be officially announced later this month.

STAY CONNECTED ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER. The group is quite savvy on Social Media so those so inclined can easily stay informed about screenings and events throughout the year. Check out these links and please be sure to like and follow!

Twitter: @IrishScreen Facebook: (Irish Screen America New York) https://www.facebook.com/irishscreenamericany (Irish Screen America Los Angeles) https://www.facebook.com/irishscreenamericala *Photograph from Daisy Asquith’s documentary, “After The Dance”

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Bogside Artists Restoration Project Moving Forward in Ireland “What you didn’t know about The Bogside Artists and were afraid to ask”

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ecently completed is the Hunger Strike Mural of The Bogside Artists, a pivotal mural in their People’s Gallery of murals situated in The Bogside Area of Derry, Northern Ireland.

The mural depicts Peggy O’Hara mother of Patsy O’Hara and Margaret McCauley sister of Michael Devine. Peggy O’Hara died recently.

Mrs. McCauley died in 2005. Both Patsy and Michael are depicted in the mural.

Michael James "Mickey" Devine (26 May, 1954–20 August, 1981) was a founding member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). He died in prison during the 1981 Irish hunger strike.

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This mural shows a little girl who is a symbol of the new generation and, above all a symbol of innocence, the central theme of the mural. Please visit our facebook page to learn more about The Bogside Artists.

Patsy O'Hara (11 July 1957 – 21 May 1981[1]) was also a member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) who also died on hunger strike. They were both from Derry.

The Bogside artists have been restoring their twelve murals for some months thanks to funding from the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, that being the only body willing to support them. At home they are marginalized and discriminated against by the ruling Sinn Fein party.

This is largely because the work of the three men is art first and foremost and, as their spokesman explains… “as far removed from propaganda as we can get. Therefore not to the liking of the incumbent die-hard Republicans who have been voted into office. What we tried to do was universalize what would otherwise be seen as a merely parochial conflict. Our understanding was that what we experienced was not confined to Derry or Northern Ireland but could be found elsewhere in the world from Sarajevo to Palestine. A fact all the more true when one considers that the Civil Rights Movement of the late sixties in Northern Ireland had been inspired by Martin Luther King’s heroic march for civil rights for Negroes in America. This was our unique vision. Art is not about the parochial but about the universal. This is the nature of the language of art.

The parochial is still present in it but is transcended by its semantic, universal reach… or does anyone suppose that a toothache in Syria is a different phenomenon from a toothache in New York? Our work is recognized as art of the highest standard by many intelligent people around the world. The Bogside Artists do not fly the flag for Sinn Fein or any other political party. We do not paint propaganda. We leave that to the well-funded and lavishly marketed muralists of Belfast. We are independent and will remain so taking the view that the artist has sold his birthright if he devotes his skill to creating propaganda, or mind persuasion, on behalf of an elite. ”

You can help: Click here for Facebook Link https://www.facebook.com/bogsideartists.derr

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Continued from page 8 still clung to his Senate speeches, it nevertheless stands as a noble record that he defended the Protestant minority in the South, and spoke in favour of the right to divorce—civilising and modernising issues that rattled the complacency of the newly-founded Dublin government. Yeats became a spokesman on artistic and moral issues—the excitable young poet's elevation to the status of a “smiling public man” would seem to have been complete in his later life? Not in the poetry, and the poetry attests to the power of his imagination to withstand, and to stand aloof from, the flurry of his other mundane concerns.

The catalogue of Yeats' sillinesses and snobberies is as long as it is offensive. His reputation in Ireland suffers to this day for his unfair judgements of Irish people and for his poses; his flirtation with fascism does

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet.

(He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)

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him no favours either. Yet there is still the poetry. W. H. Auden said this well in his wonderful elegy for Yeats: “You were silly like us; your gift survived it all.”

A censure and a pardon in one breath. And what was the spur that honed his gift?

Yeats, at the age of 23, fell for a fiery woman, a prominent revolutionary, named Maude Gonne who would not have him. After a series of proposals, pining verse and attempts to woo her, he finally relented a little and went to work on Gonne's daughter— who wouldn't have him either.

Meanwhile, he had turned fifty

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and started a family with an ever accommodating English woman named Georgie Hyde Lees who very soon understood the disposition of the man she lived with (“he would cut the wings of an angel to write a good poem”). She realised too that their marriage of convenience would not stop Yeats' wandering eye, so she oversaw his monkey gland surgery (Steinach operation) to rejuvenate Yeats sexually and arranged meetings for him with his girlfriends in London. And he continued to rave about Maude Gonne—even on his death bed, he was still writing love poems for Gonne. Very good ones too.

That is the point about Yeats.

While silliness permeates his work, it never overwhelms it.

Every Irish person who has found his disdain for Irish people problematic, might nevertheless address themselves to the corpus of work he created and acknowledge the magnificent achievement that it constitutes.

He was certainly one of the greatest poets of the century and his unceasing energy to create

the possibility of a new beginning was hugely important to Ireland during its transition to independence. For all his crazy notions and undignified love pursuits, thankfully there still is the poetry.

At 150, Yeats has long outstripped the standard Irish language platitude—go maire tú an céad/ that you may live to be a hundred. Bring on another 150 birthdays and his work will still be read.

About our writer: Maurice Fitzpatrick

Maurice Fitzpatrick has worked as a columnist, lecturer and film-maker in five countries. He was born in Ireland and graduated from Trinity College Dublin. He was the recipient of the Ministry of Education of Japan scholarship and he lived in Tokyo from 2004-2011, where he lectured at Keio University. He holds graduate degrees from Ireland and Japan and he is a lecturer at the University of Cologne.

He wrote and co-produced, an RTÉ/ BBC documentary film in 2010 and he is also author of a book entitled The Boys of St. Columb's. In 2013 he wrote & directed a documentary film for the BBC on Brian Friel's Translations. and is currently at work on a new book for the Irish Academic Press and a film for the Irish Film Board.

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such as ‘21st Century Irish Man’, the group almost reminds me of iconic rock legends such as The Who, albeit with a less stadiumy flare and the unmistakable Irish lead melodies. I particularly enjoy how the band can balance beautiful harmonies and great energy….”

The AnGry Brians®, have played The Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas on St. Patrick’s Day, the UFC Fight Week and the National Finals Rodeo week.

Formed in 2006 and hailing from Bakersfield, CA. the band now plays all over the Western United States! The AnGry Brians are: Rich Cheney –guitar/ mandolin/lead vocals. Chelsea Joy – bagpipes/whistles/ vocals. Douglas Kirk – bass/ vocals. Kathy Ross Sierra – violin/acoustic guitar/vocals. Kyle Appleton – lead guitar. Walter Baldwin – drums.

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