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Editor Guitar contest, Tim Thompson from You are invited to attendÊGreening Sage Satori Nashville, Blues and Jazz player Dan Bliss The March art exhibit at the the Community : Green economy, organic from Kansas City, and the beautiful, Ashtabula Arts Center is entitled Advertising & Marketing environments, and healthy people. April 9- amazing sounds of Northeast Ohio’s own “Home Grown” Drawings by Jo Ann Blair. 10 at CWRU This event is Beyond [email protected] virtuoso, Brian Henke. A Wizard’s of The exhibit will be on display March 4 – Pesticides’ 28th National Forum co- Acoustic Guitar performance is an event 30. An art opening reception will be held Staff Writers convened by Beyond Pesticides Ohio and that will resonate with you long after you’ve Friday, March 12 from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. The CWRU Medical School’s Swetland Center Cat Lilly • Andrea Razavi left the show. Wilbert’s is located at 812 exhibit will feature a collection of works by Sage Satori for Environmental Health. This fabulous self-taught, local artist, Jo Ann Blair. Jo Snarp Farkle • Don Perry Huron Road E, Cleveland, (216)902-4663 - Forum includes a free tour of the Helen Marketti $15 cover Ann begins with a graphite drawing and Cleveland Botanical Garden, two Westside Steve uses cross-hatching to shade and give her evening receptions, breakfast and A Benefit Concert featuring the drawings texture. Colored pencil is layered lunch catered by the Mustard Seed Contributing Writers music of The Blues Project, and trio over the graphite to finish the work. Most and a tour de force of national Alex Bevan • Jasper Rob Bliss, Dan Hathy, and Joel of the drawings are composed to speakers with local speakers, too. Patrick Podpadec Marhefka will take place at Geneva High completely cover the page. 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Irish the Christian season of Lent, Irish families holiday in Ireland and is celebrated on never bothered with an abundance of snakes. immigrants living on New York City’s Lower would traditionally attend church in the March 17, the Saint’s religious feast day and The “banishing of the snakes” was really a East Side substituted corned beef for their morning and celebrate in the afternoon. the anniversary of his death in the fifth metaphor for the eradication of pagan traditional dish of Irish bacon to save money. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption century. It has long been recounted that ideology from Ireland and the triumph of They learned about the cheaper alternative of meat were waived and people would during his mission in Ireland St. Patrick once Christianity. Within two hundred years of from their Jewish neighbors. dance, drink, and feast on the traditional stood on a hilltop (which is now called Patrick’s arrival, Ireland was completely The first St. Patrick’s Day parade took meal of Irish bacon and cabbage. Though Croagh Patrick) and, with only a wooden Christianized. place in the United States, not in Ireland. cabbage has long been an Irish food, corned staff by his side, banished all the snakes On St. Patrick’s Day, which falls during 4 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 10 - 24, 2010 Irish soldiers serving in the English military Day. In 1959, Walt Disney released a film remember important events and hold on to Irish Toasts marched through New York City on March called Darby O’Gill & the Little People, their heritage and history. As it often stirred May the saddest day of your future be no 17, 1762. Along with their music, the parade which introduced America to a very different emotion and helped to galvanize people, worse than the happiest day of your past. helped the soldiers to reconnect with their sort of leprechaun than the cantankerous music was outlawed by the English. During Irish roots, as well as fellow Irishmen little man of Irish folklore. This cheerful, her reign, Queen Elizabeth I even decreed I wish you health, I wish you well, and happiness galore. serving in the English army. friendly leprechaun is a purely American that artists and pipers were to be arrested and I wish you luck for you and friends; what Over the next thirty-five years, Irish invention, but has quickly evolved into an hanged on the spot. could I wish you more? patriotism among American immigrants easily recognizable symbol of both St. Today, traditional Irish bands like The May your joys be as deep as the oceans, your flourished, prompting the rise of so-called Patrick’s Day and Ireland in general. Chieftains, the Clancy Brothers, and Tommy troubles as light as its foam. And may you find, sweet peace of mind, “Irish Aid” societies, like the Friendly Sons Belief in leprechauns probably stems Makem are gaining worldwide popularity. where ever you may roam. of Saint Patrick and the Hibernian Society. from the Celtic belief in fairies, tiny men and Their music is produced with instruments May the most you wish for Be the least you Each group would hold annual parades women who could use their magical powers that have been used for centuries, including get. featuring bagpipes (which actually first to serve good or evil. The original Irish name the fiddle, the uilleann pipes (a sort of May the winds of fortune sail you, became popular in the Scottish and British for these figures of folklore is “lobaircin,” elaborate bagpipe), the tin whistle (a sort of May you sail a gentle sea.