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In
keeping with the theme of this years Festival we have brought back
some old favorites to the Tara Cultural Stage to perform, entertain
and enlighten you.
| John
Gleeson |
 Milwaukee
Irish Arts is a lively group of performers, poets and players.
Representing them here in Dallas will be founder members John
Gleeson, Sheila Larkin and Eamonn O'Neil. They have five
outstanding acting awards from the Acting Irish International
Theatre Festival--the largest festival of Irish drama in North
America. Since its foundation 8 years ago, the folks at
Milwaukee Irish Arts have brought to their hometown stage more
than a hundred works from the canon of Irish and Irish
American writing, and introduced countless young people to the
riches of the Irish imagination.
Equally
at home on the stages of Milwaukee's great Performing Arts
Center, the intimate Irish Pub venue or the dynamic Irish
festival scene, their special blend of song and story is
(according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal) "the Real
McCoy."
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| Patrick
Gallagher |
 Patrick
Gallagher has spent the last twenty years studying and
creating Celtic Art. He has distinguished himself as an
artist, lecturer, master printmaker, teacher and as a Celtic
ambassador of good will, peace and freedom. He travels widely,
sharing this art form at over 500 hundred events to date.
Patrick has made Celtic Art a modern phenomenon and is
archived by the UCLA School of Architecture and Design. His
design known as the "Gallagher Cross" was
embroidered on the late Cardinal O'Connor's vestments to
celebrate Saint Patrick's Day Mass at Saint Patrick's
Cathedral, NYC. Current projects include: continuous Celtic
Studio Classes, Celtic architectural design, pub design,
church decoration and spiritual design, including altars,
carved oak crosses and Celtic Revivalist murals. An exhibition
of his work can be seen in the nationally touring art show,
American Celtic-Beyond the Ninth Wave, 2000 through 2002.
Patrick along with other prominent North American Celtic
contemporaries are impacting viewers from New York to Los
Angeles interlacing several thousand years of imagery through
the direct use of Celtic techniques and symbolism. For more
information access: http://www.celtart.com. |
| Stephanie
Swinnea |
 Stephanie
Swinnea is a the author of the well-known historical novel I,
Patrick, a Sinner, the story of St Patrick. She is a
native of Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and a graduate of Texas Woman's
University. Stephanie is a storyteller, an educational
consultant, and a musician as well as an author. She is also
becoming a tour guide, with a planned pilgrimage "in the
steps of St Patrick," to England, Wales, and Ireland in
April and May of this year. Stephanie's stories, accompanied
by her music, are a delightful way to become enlightened!
Stephanie can be contacted at SnS-Terlton@att.net.
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