It’s the best brother act since the Marx Brothers. The center of the young Irish universe now spins in Berwyn every Thursday night when the Houli’s Hooley starts taping their show at 7:30PM. Bill & Paddy Houlihan started their hooley of a show just over six months ago and after moving out of the studio… Continue Reading
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Danahey on the Loose at the 2014 Bristol Renaissance Faire
Next time I hit the Bristol Renaissance Faire I want to dress like Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice: baggy linen or cotton pants with a matching, billowy jacket in either mint green or white; a sleeveless t-shirt; espadrilles; Ray-Ban sunglasses. That might be the only look I didn’t see at the opening… Continue Reading
Danahey on the loose without a kilt at the Chicago Scottish Fest and Highland Games
I made my annual trek to the Scottish Festival & Highland Games in Itasca this weekend for my usual reasons: to sample whiskies, eat organ meat mixed with oats (with hot sauce), shop for peat, see large men toss cabers, and take in a tune or to, be it a piper piping or a sassy… Continue Reading
Danahey on the Loose at Northwest Celtic Fest
You have to like a place where, once a year, the village-owned arena turns into a suburban Brigadoon, and the mayor puts on the family tartan to host a gathering of Celts. That’s to say, Saturday marked the third annual Northwest Celtic Fest at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates – and by far the… Continue Reading
Danahey on the Loose while Houli was drinking in Ireland
Houli wouldn’t give me the password to this website while he was in Ireland. He was afraid I might post way too many pictures of Kathy Ireland, but there’s a restraining order that prevents me from doing that. While he’s been drinking overseas, though, I’ve been busy hitting things Irish and otherwise, and braving the… Continue Reading
Danahey On the Loose at IBAM
iBAM! I thought it might be a tribute to Emeril Lagasse as construed by Apple. Aside from Fred Flintstone’s son-in-law, who the hell bams? Turns out, though, that my Saturday at the Irish Books Authors and Musicians event at the Irish American Heritage Center actually was tied to food – specifically potatoes. If you’re… Continue Reading
Kathleen Keane joins The Skinny & Houli Tour to Ireland
Join international Irish recording star Kathleen Keane in Ireland with Skinny & Houli for a week of music and laughter across the west coast of Ireland, Oct. 17-24th. We’re hitting Galway, Ennis, Killarney, and Dublin. Spend six nights and seven days with a group of Chicago Troubadors as they meet up with old pals in… Continue Reading
Danahey on the Loose in the Dundees
Summer officially ends next Sunday, when the days thereafter are shorter than the nights until late March – which is a good a reason as any to have a drink. In fact, I think that’s why there are Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day celebrations this time of year – to remind all that there is… Continue Reading
Danahey on the Loose at the Midwest Brewers Fest in Plainfield
Plainfield. Has there ever been a town so honest with its name? I headed there on Saturday to attend the third Midwest Brewers Fest (midwestbrewersfest.org), tagging along with the crew from Algonquin’s Village Vintner Winery & Brewery (thevillagevintner.com) to check out the beers, ciders and meads and to celebrate history being made. For this was… Continue Reading
Danahey on the Loose at Milwaukee Irish Fest
Ronan Tynan makes me cry. Beautiful as his voice may be, one note out of the big tenor, and I am suddenly blubbery, like a sad Beluga. It didn’t help Sunday at the Milwaukee Irish Fest that I get melancholy and wistful this time of the year anyway. I don’t know why my biological clock… Continue Reading