Happy Hour

Hard times, brother. Hard times.

Gasoline is pushing three bucks. The housing boom has busted. The minimum wage increase was quashed by a bunch of millionaires. The economy is more unstable than Mel Gibson. Even I have been forced to hangar the Irish Fest Executive Jet and garage the Hiberno-Hummer. So I feel your pain.

All of us at Irish Fest HQ want to help you stretch that dollar a bit further. Maybe it’s old fashioned, but you know what? We care. If lovin' you is wrong, we don't wanna be right. So here’s what we’re going to do about it.

Come to Irish Fest for free.

On opening night, Friday September 1st, if you show up at our gates between 5:00 and 6:00 PM, the first hour we’re open, you get in free. Not one buck, not a single shekel, not one precious peso. Keep that pound in your pocket, that wampum in your wallet. It’s your Euro, boyo.

Now, we’re not crazy. We have bills to pay. This largesse ends at 6:01 PM sharp. In the gate by 6:00, you're free as a bird. Then we’re Scrooge McDuck, pal. But for that one glorious hour, at the tail end of a long work week, the best weekend of the year stretched out before you, Irish Fest opens its arms to you with no strings attached. Now that, my friend is a Happy Hour.

It’s our own little economic incentive program. Free Friday for The First Hour, this year at the Kansas City Irish Fest.