North Texas Irish Festival 2008

**Uncle Al** · 12th February 08, 07:00 PM

Starting on 29 February 2008 is the North Texas Irish Festival.

See the link for info---will be great fun!

http://ntif.org/

Hope to see you there!

Uncle Al
Duncanville, TX

**Cynthia** · 12th February 08, 07:13 PM

My husband and I are hoping to make it. I've never been, but have always wanted to go. Some friends of ours will be playing there (the band Spriggan), so it would be nice to see them as well.

**RowdyRed** · 12th February 08, 09:47 PM

ooooooo, we LUV Spriggan!

Please drop by the Scottish Country Dancers tent in the (of course) Scottish clan tent area to meet some of your local XMarkers....

mkmound, rowdyred(me!), lordkiltclad and lambda should be around...somewhere

**Kevlar70** · 20th February 08, 12:19 PM

One of the big things I miss about leaving DFW is the N TX Irish Festival. I volunteered a couple of years and had a great time. That was pre-kilt days but saw some great representation - especially a perfectly 'pleated to the cammo' kilt.

It's bound to be a great time.

**Lambda** · 22nd February 08, 09:09 AM

I'll be there the whole weekend, and I'll be kilted... and playing the bagpipe... Muahaha!

Let me know when you guys are planning to make it. Last year was fantastic, and the musical selection can't be beat.

See you in a week!

**Cynthia** · 28th February 08, 07:41 AM

NTIF is this weekend! I've seen mention on a few other threads that folks are going... anyone else going? I'm hoping to go Saturday. I'll be getting there a little late, but I'm hoping to catch Spriggan in time. I'll stop by the Scottish Dancers tent at some point as well

That's me in my avatar. Since I haven't met any of you yet, I don't know what most of you look like or how we might say hi. I'm half-tempted to wear my hair down since it's knee-length and can stand out easily. Christopher might wear his kilt (a Black Stewart SWK), but it just depends on how he's feeling, if we're running a bit late, or if he's not happy with the way it went together (he's still understandably picky about wearing his kilt because the accessories are not perfect yet).

Have fun, everyone!

**Ronusan** · 28th February 08, 08:21 AM

I'll be there on Sunday! Supposedly there's open workshops for instruments so I'll probably be carting around my mandolin and penny whistle. I'll be in my green box-pleat kilt probably, maybe even in my jacket conversion I just finished, if the weather cooperates.

**Cynthia** · 28th February 08, 08:25 AM

Yeah, I might check out the fiddle workshop. I'm not going to bring my fiddle, though. I haven't touched it for easily 6 months because it and the bow have been giving me fits (haven't had the budget to look into better stuff). Needless to say, I'm sick of looking at the case and having it taunt me. Still, I figured it couldn't hurt to see what the workshop is like.

Have fun!

**AnimalK** · 28th February 08, 10:06 AM

Working a flight Saturday but will be back after 1-ish. Plan on changing in the Parking garage and heading over from Love Field.

**Cynthia** · 28th February 08, 10:21 AM

I just found out there's something else happening in Fair Park on Saturday from 1-4:30. Since we'll be getting a late start, I don't know if traffic and parking will be bad. We might actually go Sunday instead. I'll still get to see some of the bands I wanted to see, but I'll have to miss the fiddle workshop (d'oh). I'm talking to Christopher to see which day he'd prefer, but so far we both seem to be considering Sunday instead.