MARCH 2007 SUPPLEMENTAL

I guess this is all that’s going on in Central Illinois for the rest of this month. (Maybe St. Patrick’s Day has fallen out of style?) If you know of anything else, please post it in the forum, because I don’t plan to mail out another one of these until the start of April. (Send me your April event notices, though.)

Every Wednesday, 7:00 to 10:00 PM
IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC SESSION
Bentley’s Pub
419 North Neil Street
Champaign, Illinois
217-355-1236
Free

SullivanBurton have several gigs this month. As there wasn’t full event info in the email newsletter I received, I’ll simply direct you to their website.

Saturday 17 March, noon to 4:00 PM
JAMES CONNOLLY / ALTERNATIVE ST. PATRICK’S DAY IRISH FESTIVAL
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
202 South Broadway (the old post office)
Urbana, Illinois
217-356-8247
$5 adults / free for children

Bewildered by the sheer volume and variety of descriptions of this event in my spam folder and inbox, I turned to the UCIMC website for the official word:

“A political / cultural ( alternative St. Patricks Day )Irish festival with dj’d Irish music from the WEFT Celtic collective, an Irish band, Food, booths, speakers, Irish Nationalist author Sean O’Torain from Chicago promoting his new book ( ” The Donnegal Woman ” ) and speaking about past and current Irish and International political events, Irish children dancers, Irish Political film(s), special promotion from IMC Ireland and Sein Fein.”

Saturday 4 March, 4:00 PM to closing
ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION
Mike & Molly’s
105 North Market Street [map]
Champaign, Illinois
217-355-1236
$5

Savor corned beef and cabbage, a traditional music session with Lisa Boucher and friends (5:00 to 8:00 PM), and general conviviality. No green beer, just the good stuff.

Friday 30 March, 6:30 to 10:30 PM
A GAELIC GALA
Champaign Country Club
1211 South Prospect Avenue
Champaign, Illinois
Reservations: 217-355-9077 or contactus@prairieensemble.org
$60 before 16 March / $65 thereafter

A benefit for the Prairie Ensemble. Music will be provided by Noel Rice’s Academy of Irish Music.

“Enjoy an evening of mingling, hors d’oeuvres, lively Irish music and the opportunity to buy authentic Celtic handicrafts, stunning jewelry and some surprises.”

ELSEWHERE:

For Irish music events farther afield, you can’t go wrong visiting these sites:

Stress Cafe
Chicago, Milwaukee, etc.

Irish KC
Kansas City, Missouri

QUOTE OF THE MOMENT

I think I knew it before I learned it.

—Joe Burke on the “Shaskeen Hornpipe”

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