Jonathan Ramsey on Paddy's Day

Jonathan Ramsey

Friday, March 17 2006

1:00pm-3:00pm : Lew's Grill and Bar, Waldo

4:00pm-1:00am : Harling's Upstairs Irish Pub, Midtown

 

St Patrick's Day for Bob Reeder in KC

Live Irish Music Schedule for Bob Reeder on St Patrick's Day 2006:

2pm-4pm : W.J. McBride’s Irish Pub (By Kansas Speedway)

5pm-7pm : O’Malley’s 1842 Pub (Weston)

8pm-Close : Kyle’s Taproom (Gladstone)

 

Black 47 Trip to Ireland

Black 47, one-time Brookside Irish Fest headliners, and destined to return to KC Irish Fest this year, have finalized details for their Tour/Trip to Ireland. Like The Young Dubliners and The Elders' trips it will in November. Details of the Nov. 8-14 trip are available on Black47.com

Flights will be going from New York, Boston and Chicago. You can discuss with veterans of previous trips at the black47.com forum, or just call Hammond Tours 866-486-8772 to book.

In accordance with the views of the veterans we've decided to do a less frantic trip this time, spend more time in specific towns and less on the bus. Apart from the music and partying, we will continue to introduce you to the political, social and literary history of Ireland. There is no age limit, everyone mixes well, and we welcome solo travelers. By the time you get home you will have become part of a family and made new friends for life. It's an ideal way to see Ireland for the first time and a fun way to return.

St. Patrick's Day for KC's Browne's Irish Market

Irish Music, Irish Food, and Irish Clothes at Browne's Irish Market for St Patrick's Week in Kansas City this March:

Lunch Specials

Mon 13 : Irish Stew, Irish Sausage Rolls
Tue 14 : Hot Corned Beef Plate w/mash, suede, roll & butter
Wed 15 : Shepherd’s Pie
Thu 16 : Bangers & Mash

St. Patrick's Day

Open at 6:30am : Authentic Irish Breakfast. Eggs, potatoes, tomatoes, Rashers & Bangers—delicious Irish bacon and sausage—fresh baked Irish breads, tea, juice and coffee.
Heated tent with live Irish music by The Youngers

8:45am : Meet Mayor Kay Barnes when she presents a proclamation to Mike Murphy honorary Irishman of the Year, Buck O’Neill.

11:30-3:00 : Traditional Irish lunch

Food for your Party

Pick-up scones, rashers, corned beef, soda bread, bangers, digestives, chocolates, Guinness, Jameson, Bailey’s. Browne’s has just what you need to make your party its Irish best.

Irish clothes for the whole family

Kids Clothes: a great variety of adorable baby, toddler & youth; dresses, t’s and sweats, Irish sweaters, socks, hair accessories, hats...

Hoodies: Our most popular, Kelly Green, Sage with hunter appliqué, Ash gray with green…a favorite item in your closet.

Guinness wear: A big shipment just in of all the new styles including ladies cut, great new men's colors and designs too.

Also: Baseball shirts, Sweatshirts, Celtic and Irish t-shirts (long and short sleeve) Jackets, Tweeds, Shamrock reading glasses..


Browne's Irish Market (816.561.0030 fax-816.753.3003) is located at 3300 Pennsylvania Ave. and will be closed on Saturday, March 18th.

St Patrick's Hooley at Lew's Grill & Bar

2nd Annual Lew's Irish Hooley

Lew's Grill & Bar
75th and Wornall
southeast corner in the strip just south of Osco

This year our Welsh Celtic cousins in Lew's have added a jumbo outdoor tent & beer garden that will have live music all day and night. You can watch the Parade live on the Jumbo Big screen outside in the tent or the first round of the N.C.A.A. Basketball Tournament inside Lew's on one of their 16 High Definition Plasma Satellite TV's.

Schedule of Events

8:00am : Open for Breakfast
11:00am : Beer Garden Opens
1:00-3:00pm : Jonathan Ramsey
3:30-7:30pm : The Kelihans
8:30-?? : Disc O'Dick & the Mirrorballs (70's Disco)

Tickets : Pre-Sale $5.00 / Day of $10.00.

Paddy's Day at Barley's Brewhaus

Live Music, could it be Irish? Looks like Jethro has some new friends, ironically the most solitary of Irish fairies!

Barley's Brewhaus : 119th & Quivira

(913)663-4099
March 17
Jethro & The Leprichans

Barley's Brewhaus : I -435 & Midland

(913)268-5160
March 17
Flannigin's Right Hook

Them's big roads out there. Be careful. Phone your mother.

 

St Patrick's Day in KC for The Kelihans

Live Irish Pub Music, a bit punky, a bit ballady, by The Kelihans on St Paddy's Day, March 17 2006:

12:00pm : The Record Bar : Midtown, KC, MO
2:00pm : Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club : Midtown, KC, MO
4:00pm : Lew's Grill and Bar : Waldo, KC, MO
9:00pm : Replay Lounge : Lawrence, KS

Listen to The Kelihans on MySpace

 

The Elders play The Record Bar

KC's Celtic Rock supergroup, The Elders, are playing live this weekend on Saturday, January 7 at the pub many of you knew formerly as Molloy Bros Irish Pub in Westport.

The Elders are expected to begin playing at about 9:30, after In Transit. The Record Bar is located at 1020 Westport Road, Kansas City MO. 816-753-5207. Chances are, and you'd be showing your age, that you remember the pub as a different Irish pub, called Finnegans. And if you remember it as the much-love Drum Room, you might want to keep quiet about that.

The pub tends to fill up quickly, so you're advised to get there early.

St Patrick's Day at KCK's WJMcBride's Irish Pub

Music & Craic all day for authentic Irish pub WJMcBrides's on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2006:

St Paddy's Day at WJMcBride's Irish Pub

9:00am : Pub Opens
9am-noon : St Paddy's Day Irish Breakfast
11am-2pm : Eddie Delahunt
2pm-4pm : Bob Reeder
4pm-10pm : DK Knight
9pm-1am : Boomerz

$5 All Day Admission
Heated Guiness Party Tent
Multiple Bars
Live Music & DJ
Special St Paddy's Day Menu

 

Celtic Year of The Fuchsia

KC Irish Fest entertainers and Kansas City's best friends from Cork, The Fuchsia Band, have laid claim to a whole year and are seeking your help for their Tour of America. Frontman Máirtín de Cógáin sends word:

We are working hard of our U.K. and U.S. tours, but if you know of anywhere that will have us, be it a Festival, Society, Bar or House concert, send them our way!
Thank you all for your best wishes and support through all of last year Cork,
European Capital of Culture 2005 and we hope to see ye soon! Where? In the Fuchsia!

And we're looking forward to seeing The Fuchsia Band in KC later in the year

Balloon Characters for KC Irish Parade

New for this year's St. Patrick's Day Parade in Kansas City, are what are being described as "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade style" balloons. There's an adjective that rolls off the tongue.

There are four large balloons available for sponsorship - each one requiring thirty odd balloon handlers, two mid-sized balloons - they need around fifteen or so people to manage them, and three small balloon props which might require around ten people each.

The inclusion of these characters - give or take a big ugly Leprechaun - is a great addition for the parade, long a victim of its early success as a wonderful dowtown neighborhood event. For many years now the KC St Patrick's Day Parade, has been a neighbourhood parade on a city scale.

In neighborhoods, half of the people parade, and the other half watch, and everybody waves at each other. Hey look! There's Mary from next door! However when this gets scaled up to represent an entire metro area, you end up with a parade that's too long, and simply being in the parade isn't a good enough reason to be watched anymore. Mary needs to dance.

The current committee are taking some brave steps at improving the quality of this event so that the wonderful enthusiasm displayed in the participation and spectating every year are harnessed for a greater parade for everybody. Quite simply there are too many Irish people in this city to let every family, business, and organization, that is Irish, together with all the people that belong to them, parade.

Club together and make better floats, pagentry, theatre - just don't walk because you're Irish - that's perfect for our neighborhoods but not good enough for our city. The Parade has long been ready to move onto the next stage.