Nine

Continuing our Ten Things In No Particular Order Not To Miss At Irish Fest This Year, today nine days out, number nine. Our Heritage Area display,

Irish Women: Heroines Sung and Unsung.

This year, as I've told you is the Year of The Woman at the Kansas City Irish Fest. Women feature strongly in our music line up with performers like Eileen Ivers, Girsa, Screaming Orphans, Dawn and Margie Beaton, members of Cara, Kelly and more. Our staff of course, is well represented with women in leadership roles in virtually every area of our operations. Even I have gone to the trouble of having six female sisters, a girl daughter and a woman mother, just for the occasion. So it's only fitting that our heritage area display follow that theme. You'll learn about the trials, toils and rise of Irish women in Ireland and the diaspora through text, photos and living history. You'll come to understand how these powerful Celtic women shaped this country then and now. You'll want to call your mother and thank her.

Don't miss the Year Of The Woman, in the Heritage Area and all over Irish Fest.