We started a new tradition at the Kansas City Irish Fest last year, one inspired by our good friends at the Milwaukee Irish Fest. We called it The Mighty Craic and it was our way of closing Irish Fest with a bang. All our singers and musicians on stage together on Sunday night, musically saying slan go foill to another great fest weekend. Last year they did a rousing, Celtic-tinged version of "Kansas City" and the William McPeake composed classic "Wild Mountain Thyme". We all loved it and it will be back bigger and better this year. "Kansas City" will for sure be on the set list. But beyond that, I'm curious to get your input.
Here are your guidelines: the song or songs should be well known so that most if not all our musicians can leap right in, because obviously this isn't something we can rehearse. We also like to hear you sing along, so nothing too obscure. The songs should in my opinion fall into one of two categories: a rousing, pint raising, chest swelling number or an arm around your mate, sway side to side, tear in your eye anthem...like "Wild Mountain Thyme."
So...what do you think? Give us your suggestions and maybe you'll hear your choice on stage as Irish Fest closes the 2010 edition. Click that comments link and have your say.
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Wild Rover
The Parting Glass
I'm sure I'll think of others;these two leapt to mind.
Oh Danny Boy *ducks*
Fisherman's Blues. Oh yeah
Everyone goes Goo Goo for Gaga.
"She Put a Lousiana Liplock on my Love Porkchop" by Mojo Nixon. Everyone should know that one.
I vote for Ramblin Rover by Andy Stewart. Here are the lyrics in case anyone has forgotten:
Oh, there're sober men in plenty,
And drunkards barely twenty,
There are men of over ninety
That have never yet kissed a girl.
But gie me a ramblin' rover,
And fae Orkney down to Dover.
We will roam the country over
And together we'll face the world.
There's many that feign enjoyment
From merciless employment,
Their ambition was this deployment
From the minute they left the school.
And they save and scrape and ponder
While the rest go out and squander,
See the world and rove and wander
And are happier as a rule.
I've roamed through all the nations
Ta'en delight in all creation,
And I've tried a wee sensation
Where the company, did prove kind.
And when partin' was no pleasure,
I've drunk another measure
To the good friends that were treasure
For they always are in our minds.
If you're bent wi' arth-i-ritis,
Your bowels have got colitis,
You've gallopin' with bollockitis
And you're thinkin' it's time you died,
If you been a man of action,
Though you're lying there in traction,
You will get some satisfaction
Thinkin', "Jesus, at least I tried."
Gotta love Mojo Nixon. I vote for "Dirty Old Town"
how about a more traditional song that everyone can sing along with that has UNFORTUNATELY been RUINED by a group called metalica (at least they made it more well known to the younger U.S.)
"Whiskey In The Jar"
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