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Day 13,948 - Olean Celtic Festival Coming Up.mp3
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Hey gang, Kevin here, Life22.
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And most of you who follow the channel may know that I am a proud Hibernian.
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I'm an Ancient Order of Hibernian member, an AOH member.
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The local division is across from the former Dale Tile plant.
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And they're just a great Irish Catholic, you know, family-oriented, heritage-oriented
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organization.
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And they do good things for the community.
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They give back.
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And they're just all around, a good group of people, right?
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They donated at the, they always, every year, they donate to the St.
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Mary's Festival with volunteers and fire pits to help them raise money for the, local, the local Catholic Basilica, things like that.
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So this year is the first year in almost 20 years that our city is holding
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a Celtic festival.
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Normally we, they have little festivals, St.
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Patty's Day, halfway to St.
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Patty's Day festivals.
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They do scholarship raffles, things like that.
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And this year is the first year in 20 years, which almost 20 years, which is phenomenal because the last time I went to one of these, it was, yeah, because I'm 38 this year.
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Last time I went to one was I was 19 and I was volunteering at it.
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So it's one of those.
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It's one of those really exciting things.
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And I don't think the word is out there enough.
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They have a website, they have a Facebook, they've been doing a lot more like promoting and PR stuff.
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And what came to my attention last night was, or a couple days ago, was I saw some of the local, you know, of the bands that are going to be playing and they've got some, you know, wide reaching bands and musical performances at this year's festivals because they're going all out this year on the music.
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And so obviously we have the local, like the Bob Drivers, which is a local Irish band, which is, we love them, right?
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So, and we got to keep it local.
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But at the same time, we also want to try to bring people to our area.
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So they've gone around and I discovered this part last night was they'd gone around and they had gotten a lot of just,
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bands that play big Celtic festivals and they're real like headliners.
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And it's kind of exciting and they're going to draw a larger crowd from a larger demographic.
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There's some people that are coming literally just to see some of the headliners.
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And, you know, that's not to say that our local bands aren't great, but it'll be awesome that we're able to bring such a wide variety of talent to our area in addition to what we already have.
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And one of them, I was
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telling one of the guys at the AOH, hey, this is, I noticed you guys got Allie the Piper.
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And I was like, I didn't, I was like, man, why am I recognizing these YouTube reels?
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And I checked my own algorithm and I'm like, oh, that's right.
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She's the girl that plays a lot of covers of good, you know, Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne.
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She's playing that stuff on the bagpipes.
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And that's kind of her name, you know, her, the name of the game.
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And that's, you know, that's how she's gotten a lot of her notoriety is she's A bagpipist.
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Bagpiper.
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And she'll be coming to our festival, which is really exciting for a small little city like Olean to have somebody that's world renowned.
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She's on tour right now, from what I gather, and she's traveling the world playing.
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And so we get to pick up on her tour this year, which is really just phenomenal.
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We have the Irish Lassies.
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They have a website, and
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I know that in July, the ticket prices go up for this.
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So if you get your tickets early, get that early bird special, get on the website and get your tickets or reach out to somebody who can get you a set of tickets.
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I believe they all go through the website.
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I can find out.
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I get tickets now by clicking the link here.
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There's a QR code.
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So if you're more tech savvy or you don't know how to type, maybe, I don't know.
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and you just want to put your phone up and let it take you to where it's got to go.
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But it's OleanCeltic.com is the Olean Celtic festival, the Olean area Celtic festival.
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And you can check out all the information about the festival.
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It's coming up.
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It's August 29th, Saturday.
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That's the big day.
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But they're opening to the public for that first night on the 28th.
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So 28th at about 4 or 5, they'll be opening at Gargoyle Park.
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It's a city of Olean Park.
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It's actually just on the outskirts of the city.
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And if you don't know where that is, and I invite all to come far and wide, come on down and check out the Olean Celtic Festival.
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It's going to be a good one.
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It's going to be a more than good one.
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This is going to be phenomenal.
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And yours truly will be there.
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And I hope to see you there.
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And we'll catch you guys next time on Life 22.