Sunday, March 14, 2010

St. Patricks Week

Allow me to kick off a week of drinking celebrations. Being a McLean, 6th generation from Scotland, and having taveled to my homeland makes me appreciate this holiday for what it truely is: a drinking day, similar to halloween only everybody is wearing green.

The celebration began yesterday in 5 points Columbia SC, where around 30,000 packed the streets for green beer, live music on 5 stages, and plenty of greasy food from street vendors. Sure I will have an obligatory pint of Guiness on Wednesday for the actual date, but I'm looking forward to finishing the week with a trip down to Savannah GA for their festival as well.

Here are some excellent Celtic / Irish jams filled with bagpipes, drums, flutes, and fiddles, to get you pumped up for some green beer.

Lunasa

An Irish group that drives hard, sure to get yer feet stompin!
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Seven Nations

Celtic Rock - these guys are fantastic, saw em live @ Bele Chere in Asheville a few years back. Their 2000 album Pictou Sessions is definately worth a listen



Scottish Cadence - Highland drums and bagpipes


Leprechaun Sighting




CHEERS !!

5 comments:

  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Gr-KQMwbw

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  2. you trying to push scottish music on st. pats day? you sneaky little scotsman.

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  3. dude that video about the leprechaun is ridiculous ... fricking mobile alabama

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  4. I'm with Steve on this one. Last I checked, St Patrick's day was an Irish holiday. But everyone gets to be Irish on March 17th, even kilt wearing Mel Gibson lovers.

    /Malone is my mother's maiden name
    //still less than half Irish

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  5. don't hate on the homeland! just tryin to show that Scots have excellent tunes. enjoy your green rivers and beers

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