Sean Crosson is the acting director of the Huston School of Film at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He's author of the book The Given Note: Traditional Music and Modern Irish Poetry, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Crosson will talk about the role of Irish sports in Hollywood at the Hedge School in the Irish Fest Cultural Village on Friday night and Saturday afternoon. He talks to Mitch Teich about the powerful role poets played in every day life in Medieval Ireland.
Jenny Watson is an associate professor of German and Scandinavian literature at UW-Milwaukee. She’s the editor of German Milwaukee, published by Arcadia, and written by members of a class by the same name she taught at UWM last school year. Watson will talk about the book tomorrow evening at Boswell Bookshop on Downer Avenue.
Dan Harmon spoke with Dave Koslowski, co-owner of Pinehold Gardens farm in Oak Creek and our regular contributor on growing your own food. Neither Dan nor Dave were harmed or stung in the taping of this interview. No bees were harmed either, although we can’t be sure that the sight of Dan in his beekeeping gear didn’t cause a bit of consternation in the hive.
For photos of the honey making process, we compiled a Flickr slide show.
Milwaukeean by way of Ireland Derek Byrne performs for us in Lake Effect’s Studio A, engineered by our own audio engineer Jon Strelecki. Byrne’s most recent album is called Seize the Moment. He’ll perform Friday and Saturday at Irish Fest.
Check out the complete studio recordings Derek made for us below, including a medley of traditional songs "Red is the Rose," "Marie's Wedding" and "Tell Me Ma," plus two original tunes, "Save Tara" and "Between Love and Home."
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