Class as usual during the day, well kind of like usual. We had the opportunity to see a performance by traditional Irish dancers with traditional Irish instruments. That evening we walked to town and I had the best Indian food! It was some kind of potato dish with a side of spicy lentils (yay). And then the decision whether to go to the 9:00 PM evening performance. Normally in the U.S I would have skipped it, but we are in Ireland so I went.
Dave had the opportunity to join me but as he put it "I hate Irish music":-) They were brilliant musicians. First a fiddle player that has performed in Carnegie hall, her sister played a variety of percussion instruments (in my opinion she was the one to watch). They mixed up the show with Irish step dancing. The whole shebang looked like a performance from a Prairie Home Companion but then out came Barry as one of my classmates called him. He sang two Irish Ballards with piano and if Lawrence Welk was still around he would have snatched this guy up.
Our school group lowered the average age in the audience to about 70. The young dancers pictured above performed traditional Irish step dances. The two boys on the end are 13.
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