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Tent offers history lesson in Irish music
Southtown Star
There were many of the familiar sights of a festival
celebrating Irish heritage at Gaelic Park last weekend. There
was a wide menu of food and drink being sampled, especially
a few pints of Guinness. There were all sorts of Irish souvenirs
. . . Read More
10 Great Places to Turn Green with
Irish Pride
USA Today
Irish Fest Center, Milwaukee: "The Ward Irish Music Archives,
the largest collection of Irish recorded music in the U.S.,
is here. You'll find sheet music and Irish instruments, too,"
Rice says. (See USA
Today Article)
John Whelan in concert
One performance only on Friday,
February 17, 2004
John Whelan, famed recording artist and "Riverdance"
celebrity, will perform at the Irish Fest Center in Wauwatosa.
The concert, sponsored jointly by the Ward Irish Music Archives
and the Milwaukee Irish Fest, will also feature Asher Gray,
recognized as one of Milwaukee's finest exponents of Irish
traditional music.
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Archiving Yultide Tunes
Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
We got your "White Christmas" right here. Same for
the soundtrack from the "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
television show. And the sheet music for "Christmas in
Killarney." Read More
(See Journal
Sentinal Story)
Irish Fest group assembling
Bing Crosby collection
Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
He was perhaps the most important pop
singer of the 20th century, but you seldom hear him anymore
unless it's snowing. Bing Crosby was the first musical superstar.
They don't make boxed sets big enough to encompass his career.
The tally of his Billboard hits runs to 317. To put that in
some kind of context, Elvis Presley had 104, the Beatles 49.
Read More (See Journal
Sentinal Story)
Musical Memories
Irish Fest is home to one of the
world’s largest Irish music archives
Just a few blocks west of where Lake
Michigan rolls ashore in Kenosha, it wouldn't have been unusual
in the 1950's and '60's to hear the sounds of Irish music
wafting through the windows and doors of a stately two-story
brick home. The kids and the parents, uncles and aunts, grandmas
and grampas gathered often for family parties in the John
J. Ward Jr. household and let the music of their heritage
ring out. Read More
Milwaukee's Irish Music Archives
A national treasure for two countries
With a nickel down on the slot, Barry
Stapleton, caretaker of the Irish Music Archives at the Irish
Festival Building (1532 Wauwatosa Ave.), pushes the sliding
metal carriage into the machine. It sticks a little but returns
with that beautiful sound that only one of those sliding coin
dispensers can make. Read
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