oh yes the festival of WORLD cultures.

well hello out there in virtual world. christie here to let you know about the festival of world cultures. first of all i have to say i am already becoming an old granny as my knees hurt so much from all the dancing. so here's the website for those who want to consider going next year to the festival:

http://www.festivalofworldcultures.com/

Enzo Avitabile & Bottari
Mr. Whippy Soundsystem
Children of Soweto Gospel Choir
The North Strand Klezmer Band
Trans-Global Underground & Trio Bulgarka
Eoin Dillon
Prison Love

This is a list of all the groups i could find that i saw there were a few more that were not listed on the website. All of them were great. Enzo Avitabile & Bottari is a group from southern Italy, around Naples and Francesca just loved them and she said, "i just lover there Napalnese accent!" you can check them out on the website if you like. So basically every Wed. night from now on i will be at the Palace bar listening to Eoin Dillon and every Sunday after the Crepes or Pancakes i will be at the Cobblestone listening to Prison Love (the irish call it bluegrass, i call it cajun, i'm sure i will be purchasing a CD so we can all discuss the CD in the future) who wouldn't love a group with an accordian and a washboard!

i didn't see a lot of the markets because i was too busy at the concerts. since francesca and i didn't waste our money at the festival we feel we need to waste our money on something else in town so we will see, i have been slowly gathering things from shops to send to folks back home.

it was hard at this festival as there was so much to do and not necessarily enough time to do everything or see everything i wanted to see and seeing as it would be beautiful then downpouring every other minute it was hard to want to go and be outside for extedned periods of time seeing as you could be sweating or you could be soaked do to rain!

did i mention i am going to be on TV? to finish out the festival fran and i went to a taping of the Children of Soweto Gospel Choir we were disappointed at how little music we got to hear at the taping but the women of south africa were beautiful and they sang and danced a tradtional song, it was gorgeous.

on sunday we had a crepe day! and one of francesca's friends who works with her at the wine bar (she calls him a cooker which just sounds funny) and he made crepes for us. francesca was really excited because she was saying to me, "hey babe, i invited 2 men over for breakfast for us". but by the end of the day francesca no longer cares for italian men! they are just like a bunch of old men and sit in their circle and bull shit each other all day! a pretty face but that's it! i find it funny that they came to dublin to work on their english but they wouldn't speak english to me so how are you practicing english? thanks for playing. i tried to talk to one of them when francesca was putting stuff in her bag but he knew so little english and i had to rephrase things as simple as possible and speak in broken english, which i am willing to do but they just get frustrated and prefer to speak to each other and francesca in italian.

after the festival and the crepes on our way home we stopped for a slice of pizza and a beer at a place in Temple Bar, I bought the pizza Fran bought the beers and when she found out it was 4 euros for a glass (1/2 of a pint) she was mad so she said "we take the glasses with us for 8 euros!" sometimes she can be so cheeky!

so all and all a successful festival with no one getting hurt or something bummerish happening. i will leave it up to you to look at the website as it is a great website and layed out well. so peace out peeps, i'm going to make a tofurkey today for dinner!

xoxo,
christie