Hi,
I stopped in at the LA Irish festival Sunday, it was very disapointing.
Very little ITRAD there, mostly electric guitars. There was a couple of nice groups, no big names. There wasn’t any sessions or music besides the venue groups. I went into the “Irish Bazaar” and there was a guy selling cookware, next to him was “Trips to Hawaii”. Pretty sad.
I guess ITRAD is pretty dead in LA, at least for the general public.
Jon
Trad dead in L.A.? Perish the thought! It’s just getting going! I think that festival has never been a good venue for music, besides the requisite celtic rock stuff. A couple local bands get gigs in and thats about it. Usually it’s so loud, hot or some other uncomfortable situation, that not many make the trip out to play, session-wise. If you want good music, at this point in in So. California, you only need to turn around to find a session, Santa Monica, Burbank, Long Beach, Costa Mesa, No. Hollywood…and the general public can hear great music at several local pubs, the Taste of Encino festival, where they’ll be plenty or the Solstice Festival. It’s really unfortunate about the Irish Fair, but it’s not the touchstone for stuff happening around here for sure.
Yeah, the L.A. “Irish Festival” (note quotation marks) has been pretty much of a train wreck the past decade or so. One year that actually had Danú playing there, they were treated so badly, the swore they’d never return.
There is a small but lively ITM community here in the Southland, if you know where to look.
No E