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AHWATUKEE FOOTHILLS NEWS | MARCH 15, 2017
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Bars and restaurants will be shamrockin’ for St. Patrick’s on Friday BY COLLEEN SPARKS Tribune Contributing Writer
will also be served. “It’s our busiest holiday,” CK’s operating owner Kendra Pieratt said. “We’re an Irish hwatukee area bars and restaurants place on St. Patrick’s Day.” Big crowds are also expected in Tempe expect to be hopping with crowds sipping green beer, soaking up the on St. Patrick’s Day. Glendale Pipes and Drums will perform sounds of bagpipers and dancing to bands from 1 to 3 p.m. at the original Four Peaks playing Irish songs on St. Patrick’s Day. Venue owners say they always get a big Brewing Company on E. 8th Street in crowd for the holiday and with March 17 Tempe. “There’s nothing quite like the sound of falling on a Friday this year, they expect an pipes and drums to turn up the volume even larger turnout. Several bars and restaurants will roll out on Four Peaks’ authentic St. Patrick’s Day the green carpet for customers with live celebration, with a pint of Kilt Lifter bands, green beer and specials on Irish beer, Scottish Amber in your hand,” Four Peaks Irish Car Bombs and other drinks. Many co-founder Jim Scussel said. Four Peaks will offer green scrambled will also serve corned beef and cabbage, eggs, corned beef and hash, shepherd’s pie, bangers and mash and other Irish food. Bagpipers will perform from noon to 2 salmon cakes, Irish stew bread bowls and p.m., then from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Keegan’s other Irish-inspired food. Rula Bula Irish Pub & Restaurant on South Grill on East Ray Road in Ahwatukee Foothills. Green beer will be flowing and Mill Avenue in Tempe will be another hot spot on St. Patrick’s partiers can get specials Day. Rock groups will on Jameson’s Irish perform, as will the whiskey, Guinness beer Tempe Town Lake Pipe and other beverages, Band and The McTeggart inside the restaurant or Irish Dancers. in a beer tent set up for “It’s always a blast,” the holiday. Rula Bula supervisor The bagpipers were a Tiffany Hald said. hit last year at Keegan’s, Chandler will be restaurant owner Steve rocking with two Johnson said. events on St. Patrick’s “Everyone was Day. The Downtown cheering and singing Chandler Community along and having Partnership will hold the fun,” Johnson said. Shamrockin’ Art Walk “We’re probably the from 6 to 9:30 p.m., in only considered IrishDr. A.J. Chandler Park on themed restaurant in (Kendra Pieratt/Special to AFN) South Arizona Avenue. Ahwatukee.” Michael Morgan gets into the St. Also at Dr. A.J. Customers can also Patrick’s Day spirit at CK’s Tavern & Grill Chandler Park, Murphy’s feed their Irish cravings in Ahwatukee. Law Irish Pub will hold with corned beef and its first annual ShamRockFest with several cabbage served with potatoes at Keegan’s. CK’s Tavern & Grill on East Chandler bands, a beer garden, leprechauns and Boulevard, also Ahwatukee, is expected to adult beer games. At the Art Walk, Valley band Kilted Spirit be a party destination on St. Patrick’s Day. Soulful rock band Outside the Line will with Irish lead singer Colleen Collins will play classic rock with Irish tunes mixed into perform from 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Customers can drink green Bud Light it from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. “Our show is high energy and it’s beer, and get specials on Guinness beer and Irish Car Bombs. Corned beef and cabbage interactive,” Collins said. “Everybody’s Irish
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Bartender Julie Sorensen fills a glass with beer at Keegan’s Grill in Ahwatukee.
on St. Patrick’s Day.” At ShamRockFest, five local rock bands will perform, along with the AZ Fire Service Pipe Band. Dancers from The Bracken School of Irish Dance in Chandler will also entertain people at the festival, which runs from 4 p.m. to midnight. Green beer will be served, along with corned beef and cabbage and bangers and mash, as well as food from several food trucks. People can play human foosball, giant Battleship and cornhole. For tickets to ShamRockFest, visit http://holyshamrocks.com/ Music will also be on the menu in another part of Chandler on St. Patrick’s Day at Fibber Magees on West Elliot Road. Wide Awake, a U2 cover band, will perform from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., then Irish rock band The Brazen Heads will play from 3 to 6 p.m. Cockswain, another Irish rock band, will play from 7 to 11 p.m. Fibber Magees will add an outdoor beer garden and expects to see more than 2,000 people throughout March 17, general manager Matt Brennan said.
Another Irish pub, R.T. O’Sullivan’s on East Superstition Springs Boulevard in Mesa will also have a big bash. Irish step dancers The Bracken School of Irish Dance will perform from 2:30 to 3 p.m. and Glendale Pipes and Drums will play from 7:30 to 8 p.m. on March 17 at R.T. O’Sullivan’s. An Irish fiddler duo will perform several times that day and dueling pianists will take the stage at night. In Gilbert, music and Irish food will combine for a celebration at Cuisine & Wine Bistro on West Warner Road. Coowner Mairead Buschtetz is Irish. Her husband, co-owner and head chef Fabrice Buschetz will make an Irish stew, Irish pea and bacon sop and chocolate mousse with green mint. Rock artist Ronnie Leach will perform from 7 to 10 p.m. “It is a fun day,” Mairead Buschtetz said. “We wear shamrocks in Ireland.” At JC’s Steakhouse on East Ray Road in Gilbert, customers can party to the sounds of musician Chuck E. Baby on St. Patrick’s Day. Drink specials will be offered.