<div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#ff9900" size="6">Sober St. Patrick's Day means top Irish entertain</font><span style="color:rgb(255,153,0);font-size:xx-large">ment</span></div><font size="4" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#274e13"><b>5pm til 8pm, Tuesday, March 17, 2015</b></font><div><font size="4" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#274e13">Ahern's Banquet Center</font></div><div><font size="4" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#274e13">726 Avon Belden Road, Avon Lake </font></div><div><font size="4" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#ff9900">Tickets:</font><font size="4" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#0000ff"> </font><font color="#274e13"><font size="4" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">only $15 per person - $10 Seniors & Students, Free for kids 10 & under. Includes hot hors d'oeuvres, coffee, tea,& soft drinks. Ample free parking. Supervised kids activity area</font><font size="4" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</font></font><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><b>Tickets available only at </b><font color="#0000ff"><i><a href="http://www.soberstpatricksday.org">www.soberstpatricksday.org</a> </i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><font color="#ff9900">Entertainment includes these top artists:</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Mary Agnes Kennedy</span></b>, singer
and guitarist, is one of the most popular performers of Irish ballads and folk
music in the Greater Cleveland area. The
red-haired Mary with the black acoustic guitar is frequently heard at the Irish
American Club East Side as well as the West Side Irish American Club. Mary Agnes emerged as a rising star on the
Cleveland Irish scene as the featured singer with Alec and Darby’s Folk at
Darby O’Toole’s over 25 years ago. Mary
Agnes left the band for a flirtation with Nashville but fortunately for
Cleveland audiences, she returned several years ago with her strong expressive
voice and solo performances.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">Patrick Kilroy</span></b>, bagpipes,
has performed with The Kilroys, since the versatile family band began appearing
on Cleveland stages in the early 1990s at venues including the fabled Rory’s
Public House. The Kilroys are well known
to Cleveland audiences for their ceili shows but have also been known to
entertain with rebel tunes, Irish rock, and traditional tunes. Patrick is a
versatile instrumentalist, who has performed on guitar and fiddle, as well as
the bagpipes. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Clash
of the Tartans</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;color:windowtext;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">is a Cleveland
based all-women folk band specializing in adding a classical twist to
traditional favorites. Three of the five members are former members of
Ceud Mile Failte, a folk band that plays original compositions. Leader and
flutist, Julie Williams, is an active performer and teacher in the area, in
both classical and folk music of German, American, and Celtic regions.
Other members include: Alyssa Schreiber, fiddle; Liz Crowe, cello and
banjo; Georgeann Tropiano, guitar & vocals; and Erica Tompkins, fiddle
& bodhran. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Fior
Gael</span></b><span style="color:windowtext;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> offers the finest
example of traditional Irish music as you will find in Ohio. The trio of Brian Bigley, Brian Holleran, and
Ruari Hurley are as accomplished as they are authentic. Multi-instrumentalist
Brian Bigley grew up in a musical family in Cleveland. Although he also
plays whistle and flute, he is best known as a uilleann piper, an instrument he
took up when he was eight under Michael Kilbane’s tutelage. He is also a
uilleann pipe and reed maker and a champion step dancer. Brian Holleran
grew up in New Jersey, a student of the East Galway flute legend Mike
Rafferty. He earned wide respect on the session scene in New York, and
was a featured performer on the seminal 2004 album “Live at Mona’s.” Both
were members of Cleveland’s “Burning River Ceili Band. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Dublin native
Ruairi Hurley is a staple of his adopted city’s Irish music scene and has appeared
regularly with several different lineups, among them the famed Pitch the Peat
and Fior Gael, more than a few sit-ins with The Portersharks and any number of
pub sessions with some of Northeast Ohio’s most talented musicians. Tough to
say where he’s more superb, his guitar or vocals.</span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:rgb(254,254,254)">The Burke School of
Irish Dance</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:rgb(254,254,254)"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:rgb(254,254,254)">has a long tradition of excellence. Founded in 1958 by Theresa
Burke, the school now operates in three locations; Cleveland, Youngstown, and
Pittsburgh. The school founder, Theresa Burke, is one of the most
prominent Irish dancing teachers in the United States. In 1965 she became
the first North American woman to be certified by the international body
governing traditional Irish step dancing. Theresa was recently honored in the
Irish Dance Hall of Fame and celebrated fifty years of success teaching Irish
dance. Theresa's dancers have continuously won top prizes at the
regional, national, and world level competitions.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(84,84,84);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(84,84,84);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">The Cleveland Ceili Club</span></b> promotes the
traditional social dances of Ireland. The Club holds classes weekly and welcome
adults who wish to dance! The Cleveland Ceili Club was established in 1993 by a
group of eight people and a dance teacher who decided to learn Irish Set
Dancing. Since that time, the group has grown and has regular participants from
the Northern Ohio area from Toledo to Wooster to Painesville. The Ceili Club
welcomes anyone who enjoys Irish country dancing or wants to learn. The Club says that as long as you can count,
you’ll be able to do it! </p><p class=""><font size="4">Supported by LCADA; Leimkiehler Orthotic; and Cuyahoga County <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(213,230,238)"><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:10px">ADAMHS Board</span></font></span> </font></font></p><p class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><i>Friends of Bill McW will convene for a closed AA meeting on site at 4pm.</i></b></font></p></div><b><i>-- </i></b><br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Jack Kilroy </div><div>Tel. 440-759-1253</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Lato, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.5555562973022px;line-height:20px"><i><span style="background-color:rgb(242,244,245)"> </span>People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.</i></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Lato, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.5555562973022px;line-height:20px"> (George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer)</span></font></div>
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