SMOKED SALMON OF KNOWLEDGE

In lieu of pounding my forehead on the keyboard until something interesting comes out, I’ll just send this update sans chatty garnish. Okay?

Saturday 31 March, 6:00 to 11:00 PM
MISSION FOR MEGHAN
Outfield Patio Section
U.S. Cellular Field
333 West 35th Street
Chicago, Illinois
$35

This event is to defray cancer treatment expenses for Meghan Henry, dancer and granddaughter of Chicago piper Kevin Henry. Music by Kevin Henry and friends, the Larkin and Moran brothers, and Railroad Gin; performances by the Trinity dancers.

If you can’t go, you can still help out:

http://www.missionformeghan.org/

Sunday 1 April, 5:00 to 8:00 PM
SESSION DE POISSON D’AVRIL
Mike & Molly’s
105 North Market Street [map]
Champaign, Illinois
217-355-1236
Free

For this Sunday’s session (hosted by yrs. truly), we will speak only en Français and play only tunes about fish.

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

COMING UP

27-29 APRIL: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS IRISH FEST
Carbondale, IL / http://www.silirishfest.org/

28 APRIL: EILEEN IVERS & IMMIGRANT SOUL @ Historic Dixon Theatre
Dixon, IL / 763-559-8019

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

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

—James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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