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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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Irish Set Dance Class in McKinney - March 3 to April 7, 2010
Hey! Would you like to learn fun dances or add snazzy footwork to your repertoire? Register now for the Irish Set Dance class in McKinney. Bring a friend, spouse, a young'un age 12 and up, or just yourself. It's a great way to meet new people. You don't have to be Irish to enjoy set dancing; you only need happy feet and a playful spirit!

Class Code: 131525-A2
Dates: Mar 3-Apr 7
Day / Time: Wednesdays, 7:30pm- 8:30pm
Location: McKinney Community Center, 2001 South Central Expy.
(a little north of 121, east side of I-75)
Fees: $31 Resident/$35 Non-Resident
Age: 12yr. & up
To register: call 972-547-2690 or visit https://webtrac.mckinneytexas.org/
See page 24: http://www3.mckinneytexas.org/www/parks.aspx?id=1942

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Go buy a clue.

If you'd stop gouging your customers, shafting your customers and suing your customers I'd buy more of your product and you probably wouldn't be laying people and/or closing your doors.

Price your product for mass-market sales, make it dirt-simple to get hold of and get rid of the DRM.

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It was another fun session at Trinity Hall this past Sunday. The Lone Star Ceili Band were all there (plus 1, what was her name?) along with 8 dancers with Susan, myself and Billye calling throughout the three hour session.

Ken's hidden behind The mystery Bodhran player.

More pictures are available in the gallery.

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It was a fun session at Trinity Hall this past Sunday. Most of the Lone Star Ceili Band were there along with 16 dancers plus Susan and I calling throughout the three hour session.

There was also cake to celebrate the graduation of Ken's daughter from high school with loads of spinning and jumping and battering during the afternoon.

More pictures are available in the gallery.

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Wheee! Another fun session at Lochrann's. We were joined by a few more dancers and a new musician whose name I unfortunately failed to get.

We had the back room largely to ourselves and a few spectators and it was an afternoon full of great craic!

We danced a couple of the Ballyvorney Jig Set, the Clare Lancers, Three Tunes, Four Hand, Siege of Ennis and a bit of stepping about.

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.

If you haven't heard of literal music videos, you're in for a treat.

They're music videos (duh) that have had the vocals replaced with a description of what's happening in the video rather than the original song.

The best ones feature people who can actually sing and sound at least somewhat like the original artist.

It's most funny if you remember seeing the original video when it first came out.

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