Los Angeles County Irish Fair and Music Festival

[JI7]

has anyone here been to this ? i'm not irish but still interested in going.

it's on March 12th and 13th

http://www.la-irishfair.com/2005/default.htm

[Maeve]

1. Sounds like a great party

Altho after a look at the schedule I would fault them for not having enough storytellers....:D

Let us know how it goes if you do check it out!

[catchnrelease]

2. Have been a couple of times

It's not great, but about the best we have around here anymore. It does have some good music, some fun vendors, dancing, etc. You can go thru it in a couple of hours if you just want to check it all out. I like to sit and listen to the various bands, and hit my favorite book seller, Tea and Sympathy.

Back about 8 or so years, it used to be held at Santa Anita Racetrack, and it was huge. Lots of vendors of nice Irish oriented things. You could really spend all day there. Then it moved out to a park in Sepulvida and really seemed to diminish. Too many vendors that had all kinds of "swap meet" junk that had nothing to do with anything Gaelic. So a couple of years ago, it moved to Pomona Fairgrounds and has been improving a little bit each year. I'm sure I'll go...as I said, it's about the best that's going in SoCal these days. (I think there is still one in the San Fernando Valley and one in Irvine that calls itself the "largest", but I went last year and it was even smaller than the one in Pomona. :-( )

[Maeve]

3. That's a shame

Our biggest festival in Ohio is increasing in size this year and is becoming more cultural all the time. The fact that it is run by the city of Dublin probably helps...check it out at http://www.dublinirishfestival.org/

[catchnrelease]

4. You might say

I'm green with envy! :evilgrin: Sorry for the outrageous pun, I had to! Your festival sounds wonderful, I really wish we had something like that here.