Irish Fest offers fine blend of old and new

Concert review | Irish Fest offers fine blend of old and new - KansasCity.com: "Before he and his band, McPeake, played “Wild Mountain Thyme (Will You Go Lassie)” on Friday at Irish Fest, Francis McPeake III told the crowd that his great-grandfather, who wrote the song more than half a century ago, probably never imagined that his great-grandson would one day perform the song at a festival in Kansas City.
In many ways, this annual rite of Labor Day weekend is still your great-grandfather’s Irish Fest. It still features plenty of traditional forms of Irish music, dance, art and culture. But as it has grown — it’s now the world’s third-largest, organizers say, behind events in Milwaukee and Dublin — it has evolved."
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