IRISH FEST 2007 - Three days of free access @ ancestry.com

[Breeze54]

Can’t make it to Ireland?
Irish Fest is coming to you.

IRISH FEST 2007

August 16-19th

The Henry W. Maier Festival Park
200 North Harbor Dr.
Milwaukee, WI 53202

www.irishfest.com


Celebrate your Irish heritage at Irish Fest 2007, the world’s largest Irish festival outside of Ireland.
It’s your chance to enjoy Irish music, culture, food and traditions — and visit the Ancestry booth to
learn about your ancestors from the Emerald Isle.

We’ll answer your questions and give you free access to Irish historical records too.

Can’t make the festival? Celebrate your roots right at home.

Find Irish ancestors at www.ancestry.com/IrishFest and

get three days of free access to all our collections.

You can also browse our selection of Irish family history books at www.theancestrystore.com .

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[redqueen]

1. Cool... thanks!

I'd love to trace my roots back there...

[Breeze54]

3. I used the Veteran's Day 3 day pass and found

my paternal Irish grandfather and mother!

Now I have a chance to continue the search for free!

Hope you have good luck!!

I looked in the census records! *hint*

[ceile]

2. Very cool!

Thanks for the heads up. I know all of my family after 1900, before that-not a clue.

[Breeze54]

4. I'm the same, sort of...

We can't find where in Ireland my paternal grandfather was born.

It's all speculative but now I can have 3 days to look some more!

Enjoy!!

[CBHagman]

5. BUMP.

This should be at the genealogy forum as well, and also Irish affairs.

[Breeze54]

7. I did post it in Irish affairs!

Way ahead of you!

But I didn't remember the genealogy forum.

Good idea!

[Connonym]

6. Irish Fest is a family tradition for us

I'll raise a glass to all of you whilst I'm there on Sunday! It's really a good time and if you ever happen to be in the Milwaukee area during Irish Fest I would encourage you to check it out.

[Breeze54]

8. I think I heard on the radio that there is an Irish Fest near me too!

I haven't searched for it yet but a radio station in Rhode Island
was having a contest and giving away free tickets!

I'll have to see if I can find out more info!

Have fun!!

[Breeze54]

9. Looks like I missed it! :-(

The jig is up: Dancers with the Celtic Company of Dance New England
perform a traditional dance at ICONS, the Irish Connection Music
and Arts Festival, yesterday in Canton. (Staff photo by David Goldman)

Fest o’ the Irish: World of music on stage at ICONS

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/artsNews/view.bg?articl...

By Daniel Gewertz

Sunday, August 12, 2007 - Updated: 12:07 PM EST

All the publicity this year was about how ICONS, the new name for the Irish Connections Music and Arts Festival,
was wandering far afield from its Celtic folk roots. But once the Black Crowes left the ICONS stage late Friday
night, this big, sprawling fest seemed about as Irish as an American event could possibly get.

Yesterday, Irish wolfhounds and setters were led through the happy crowds and the sound of Irish harps and
pennywhistles seemed practically everywhere.

The festival had about 12 performance spaces, and may have been too ambitious. Spread out among so many
spaces, on such huge grounds, the crowd seemed merely adequate.

more....

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Irish eyes will be smiling as Icon expands its offerings

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?artic...

By Tom Kielty
Friday, August 10, 2007 - Updated: 03:42 AM EST

The leprechauns dancing in the Canton woods can be excused if there’s a bit more of a hippy shake to their
steps during this weekend’s Icons Festival. The classic rock grooves of the Black Crowes are likely to have
that effect on even the most Celtic of sprites when the expanding fest takes its biggest step away from the Emerald Isle.

“The Black Crowes are what I’d call a wild card,” said radio host and Icons director Brian O’Donovan, a veteran
of the event when it was known as the Irish Connections Festival and held on the campus of Stonehill College.


Chris Robinson and Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes.

“We didn’t set out to get the Black Crowes for a specific Irish connection, but instead to make a special
opening-night rock concert,” O’Donovan said. “A more spirited concert.”

Spirited it is sure to be, with the Crowes following the decidedly more Gaelic strains of Black 47 and the Saw Doctors.
Over the course of the three-day festival, music fans will have the opportunity to attend performances by more
traditional Irish acts such as Cherish the Ladies and take in the melding of punk and Irish influences that
defines the Hub’s Dropkick Murphys.

So, where do the Black Crowes, a band more accustomed to sharing stages with the likes of the Grateful Dead
and the Rolling Stones, fit in?

The answer may lie in Ireland’s fabled Lisdoonvarna Festival, a staple of Irish music in the late ’70s and early
’80s that was as likely to host Emmylou Harris as Van Morrison. O’Donovan says it is that spirit that led Icons
to this rather risky, and admittedly pricey, booking.

more....


Sunday, August 12, 2007
Ashley Curran, 15, of Plymouth, middle, leans on Meghan Young, 14,
of East Bridgewater, right, as their dance group, Haley's School
of Irish Dance in Whitman, takes their shoes off following a
performance at the 2007 ICONS Festival in Canton Saturday.

[CBHagman]

10. Well, at least I accessed the collections.

There is nothing like FREE ACCESS to genealogy records.

But now I'll have to have a word with the person on One Family Tree (or whatever it's called) who got some family data wrong...

[Breeze54]

12. You were able to see the records ahead of time?

Cool! I'll have to try that in the morning.

I couldn't wait and i tried to log in with the log in they gave me last time but they're
insisting I join for 14 days free and then pay in advance for a years membership.

[KitchenWitch]

11. I love the Milwaukee Heritage Festivals!

Another thing I miss about living in the midwest.

[dolo amber]

13. That's RIGHT around the corner from my house

You fuckers better not take my parking spot.