Koroit Irish Festival

Maybe I should at this stage refer you to the website. I had a great weekend and it was more a sense of community and togetherness than a music festival. I fell asleep at the Maria Forde Concert on Friday night, the old jet-lag was catching up on me. On Saturday our school kids paraded behind the county flag of their ancestors. Following the parade Grades three and Four performed the dance 'Johnny Will You Marry Me?', the school choir sang two songs, the Grade Fives and Sixes did a dance of their own composition to 'I'll Tell My Ma' and we finished up with all and sundry, and even a few of the spectators, doing the Tommy-K Dance. Pity the photos were not great as I was going to send them to the saw Doctors' Website. I then entered The Danny Boy Competition. The first round was in Izzy's Restaurant at one and I qualified for the finals at Five. A local man who had been trying for twelve years won but I was pleased, especially as the final was in the Theatre with a few hundred people. In between I watched the groups Cill Airne and the Craic Hooers. ( I met them in Mickey Burkes after and they thought that I sang well! They even gave me a copy of their cd which I got them to sign. They did so 'as Gaeilge') The highlight of the weekend was the night-time performance of Creymore. They rock! Met Sinéad Philips, one of the vets if you have been following, in Mickey Bourkes and the sing-song went on late into the night. will have to learn more words of more songs. Bhan Tri performed at mass the next morning and then I went to the Bowls Club for breakfasy, comedy and more music. Finally went to the footy grounds to see Koroit play Terang. I met loads of people both Aussie ( not least many of the parents from school) and Irish and had a great social time.