Dragon's Eye News

The North Texas Irish Festival is coming up this weekend? Got your Irish on?

It'll be a weekend of great music, dance, food and drink so don't miss it!

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The ceili last night was loads of fun. If you missed it, pictures are available in the gallery.

Don't forget, NTIF is coming up next month as well as another ceili session at Trinity Hall in Dallas.

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SCMA Celtic Céilí - February 20, 2010
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: ArtCentre of Plano
http://www.artcentreofplano.org/
1039 East 15th St., Plano, TX 75074
Cost: $7 ($5 for SCMA members)
Info: http://ceili.dragonseye.com/
Dances: Please take a few minutes to look over the notes and watch the videos, so we can spend more time dancing and less time talking. Psst, print a copy and use them as cheat notes at the céilí -- that's allowed. :-)

• Ballyvourney Jig Set, the one with the A, B, and D parts that stay the same and the C that changes.

videos: Figures 1-5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDoDTzT_aaw
notes: http://www.setdancingnews.net/teacher/ballyvourneyj.htm

• Derradda Set -- This will be new to the local crowd, but it's easy. Take a look & print the notes.

videos: Figure 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZge6fHIt3c
Figure 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8BxSa9Vbfg
Figure 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE-JUblYtKQ
notes: http://www.setdancingnews.net/teacher/DERRADA.HTM

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This report's way overdue but here's what we did last Nov in Rehoboth.

Ahhhh. The throbbing sensation in the feet that follows a full weekend of dancing. Wouldn't trade it for just about anything.

Wait, I said that last year.

It's still true though.

Now, on to this year's dancing excursion.

Several kids (big and little) and a few adults went out to Lochrann's to dance for Lochrann's St. Paddy's celebration.

Of course, Andi had to start by showing off her legs.

It was a good, busy day. We took Chip out for his first festival and he seemed to really enjoy meeting the other dogs and wasn't too freaked out by the crowds. He's a quick, bouncy dog and the few times there were just too many feet around, he'd jump about a bit. We carried him through the worst.

There was plenty of dancing with Saturday night closing with a three-hour ceili played by the Lone Star Ceili Band and called by Susan and myself.

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