Night of the Irish

Friday, March 3, 2017
Banner Graphic/CHELSEA MODGLIN

Everyone was Irish -- or wanted to be -- at the Putnam County Public Library’s second annual Irish First Friday. In addition to hor d’oeuvres and photographs of the Irish landscape (by Melanie Finney), the evening featured a band of local musicians and students from the Richens/Timm Academy of Irish Dance (above). Dancer Lucy Springmyer (below) is a junior at North Putnam High School who will be competing in the 2017 North American Irish Dance Championship in New Orleans in July. The band is (bottom, from left) Rick Smock (guitar), Brenda Sutton (Irish drum), Mike Van Rensselaer (banjo), Jesse Samm (mandolin), Kevin Kinney (flute, Celtic harp) and Jill Dombrowski (not pictured, hammer dulcimer).

Banner Graphic/CHELSEA MODGLIN
Banner Graphic/CHELSEA MODGLIN
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