Sunday, December 31, 2017

2017 Irish Fest--Music from Saturday, August 19

2017 Irish Fest
Music from Saturday, August 19, 2017

The table cloth crew gets to the Summerfest grounds at 8:00 a.m. in the morning and have only four hours to do all the removal, restoration and covering.  We are booking but we do get our work done so that the thousands of attendees are going to have a great experience at the Fest.

Once the gates are open at Noon, my photography job starts and the first act to cover is the local band Leahy's Luck.





Emerald Wind at the Harp Tent

Next up was Glendessary Jam.  Glendessary Jam has been getting together in Santa Barbara, California, to play Old Time Music for nearly 30 years.






Frogwater

Frogwater

Blackthorn

Matt and Shannon Heaton

Matt and Shannon Heaton

Challenge again to shoot dancers, I headed over to see the Glencastle Irish Dancers.



















 

I got my second chance around to shoot Brave Giant.









Skerryvore had no issues heading out into the afternoon crowd to do a song amongst the people.












I just could not get enough of Celtica Pipes Rock.



















































 




























The last stop of this night was a chance to take in the energy of Eileen Ivers.























Not sure why, but for a brief moment on the grounds we could see...