I love a city that loves festivals and Louisville certainly fits that bill.
The festival kicks off on Friday evening, September 25, 7:30 p.m. with a live performance of the Irish comedy play, “Shaughraun” in Craile Theatre (Wyatt Hall). There will be a repeat performance on Saturday, September 26 at 2 p.m. during the festival.
The annual celebration of Irish arts and culture opens at 11 a.m. on Saturday, September 26 until 10 p.m. and continues on Sunday, September 27 from 11:30 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Festival highlights include musical performances by popular Irish musicians including Cloigheann, Needfire, Alaire and many more leading Irish groups. Other unique features of this year’s festival include the opportunity to follow ancestoral roots through song & mythology with Robert Tincher; an oral history table where you can record your own family’s story; a children’s area complete with Irish Heros; Dog Breeds of Ireland Exhibit; an Irish Tearoom; the Society for Creative Anachronism; Irish language lessons and Irish arts vendors. Detailed info and photos at www.louisvilleirishfest.comFriday September 25 – Sunday September 27, 2009
Friday – Play at 7:30pm in Wyatt Hall – details on our Entertainment page
Saturday – 11am to 10pm – Admission: $3 / adult (13 and older), Free to current military members and their immediate families
Sunday – 11:30a to 6pm – Admission: $3 / adult, $2 with canned good donation for Hand in Hand MinistriesBellarmine University
September 26th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Being an Irish lass, I can’t wait to go to the Festival today! But I wouldn’t recommend seeing the play, “The Shaughraun”. We left last night’s performance at intermission (which by the way, didn’t come until we were 90 minutes into it). The play is actually a “reading” — the actors are reading the script out of binders, standing at music stands — and there were no set changes like a real play. That wouldn’t have been a deal-breaker, but we couldn’t understand most of what was being said, either because of bad accents or poor projection on the part of the actors.(And we weren’t the only ones who thought so.) If this was a comedy, we saw no evidence of it at last night’s performance.