Another "What trumps paddling post..."

I spent from August 28 through September 1 in Omaha and KC. I saw my favorite band, Gaelic Storm, three nights in a row and attended the KC Irish Fest through the Labor Day Weekend. It was a blast! The best bands were by far GS, The Elders, and Scythian. I also really enjoyed the Wild Clover Band, The Barra MacNeils, and Pogey. What the heck it was all great. I may have built Enter The Haggis up too much in my head, but I still enjoyed their show. Some video clips from the weekend:

Bad Haggis

The Barra MacNeils


Damien Dempsey performing Rocky Road To Dublin

The Elders



The Elders with a dancer.

The Elders with Enter The Haggis

The Elders with pipers.

Enter The Haggis




Gaelic Storm


Gaelic Storm - The Night I Punched Russell Crowe

Gaelic Storm with dancers

Gaelic Storm's Ryan Lacey

Gaelic Storm - Lover's Wreck

Gaelic Storm - Mechanical Bull

GS - What's The Rumpus

GS - Slim Jim and the Seven Eleven Girl

Pogey - Excursion Around The Bay

Pogey - Walk With Me

Pogey - What I want

Scythian.




Wild Clover Band... I found a Moore Street Girl!

And she had a friend...

Slideshow of some pictures:

What trump's paddling?

I did not get any paddling in this weekend. Though I do have some pictures on my hard drive from the past week or so that I still need to post sometime. But what trumped paddling this weekend, you ask? The Minnesota Irish Fair in Saint Paul, Minnesota! Great music, great times, great fun! Some examples of bands performing music: Flogging Molly, Wild Colonial Bhoys, Scythian, and The Elders. Also, I ran the 5k there on Saturday and posted my second sub 22 minute time this summer.

Scythian playing Devil Went Down To Georgia on Friday evening.


Scythian playing Cubicles and Tylenol on Friday evening.


Flogging Molly playing Rebels of the Sacred Heart on Friday night.


Flogging Molly playing Devil's Dance Floor on Friday night.


Wild Colonial Bhoys @ the Crossroads Stage on Friday night.




Crowd getting down to Wild Colonial Bhoys @ Crossroads Stage Friday night.


Ring of Kerry playing Rocky Road To Dublin.


Wild Colonial Bhoys @ Main Stage Saturday evening




The Elders and dizziness.


A friend of mine crowd surfing during Flogging Molly Saturday night. The security people failed to catch him, but he is fine.


How to lighten a crowd @ a Flogging Molly concert.


Flogging Molly on Saturday night. (Requiem for a dying soul)


McKinnis' Kitchen playing Lukey @ the Gateway Stage on Sunday.


The Fuschia Band and a song about playing a trick on a piper.


The Elders playing Sunday evening.




Water Drum!


The Elders playing Racing the Tide.




The Elders and the lovely Finnegan's Girls.


Scattering Set


After the festivities on Sunday, my friends and I went up to The Liffey (two of us were staying at the Holiday Inn in the same building) for supper and we enjoyed some bands playing until midnight. I even managed to ride in the elevator with the Elders.

Picture Slide Show: