Cup of Tae

So this is kind of interesting...

This weekend is the Cup of Tae Festival in Ardara, Co.

 Donegal. You say it "Cup of Tay". 

Cup of Tae is an Irish music festival or a fleadh ceol (pron. as "flaw kee-ol"). During a fleadh, a village is filled with Irish musicians--in the streets, in the pu

bs and everywhere in between. A fleadh is for drinking with friends, listening to good music, singing, dancing and generally enjoying about the Irish-est weekend you can imagine. 

Naturally, I'm intrigued.

I've never been to a fleadh or the Cup of Tae, and there's a chance I may go up this weekend. Here are some photos of fleadhs and Cup of Tae Festival of years past, to give you an idea of what they're like. 

Fleadh Thír Eoghain (Tyrone fleadh)

 awwww! kids at Offaly Fleadh 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!

You will never guess what I just found!

As I was searching the web for fleadh images, this website came up:

http://www.detroitima.org/

The Detroit Irish Music Association!

AND! AND!

They host the Midwest Fleadh! Can you believe that? How funny.  IN TWO WEEKS! May 15th, Doubletree Dearborn (em, not really a sleepy Irish village, but I hear the craic is mighty in the Doubletree Dearborn, LOL). 

http://www.midwestfleadh.com/current/fleadh/