Irish Fair of Minnesota 2011

A full documentary of most of the acts featured at the fair this year and a load of ambiance going on around them. If you were there on a stage you are probably in the video. If you missed the fair, this will give you reason not to miss it next year--it's one of the largest free music festivals in the world.

If you want to download a better quality copy I can try to email you one. I compressed this to 300mb at 700X289p in Mp4 and it looks pretty good and is reasonably small for the length of the production, which is 1 hr 14min 16sec. YouTube has crushed it down even more or transcoded it in some way, so it's rather grainy here. I'll make it available on Divx, Mp4, and DVD for the price of the disc and postage to any of the bands, talent , volunteers, or organizations involved with the Fair. You could throw in a donation for the effort but that's not necessary, I consider this my part in helping out the Fair.

Actually I can deliver it in almost any format but MPEG2 files will be three gig and change, a full quality Divix will be two gig and the same on Mp4 will be two gig. The original .AVI DV render is a massive 17 gig and you'll need to show up at the house with a huge flash drive or mobile hard drive to get it. I also have individual segments with much simpler editing of each act featured. All of the latter would be more complicated to arrange mind you, than just sending a copy via email, or on a DVD video or DVD data disc. If you need a small portable file of course, just download it here, now.

In any case, crack a cold drink, sit back and enjoy the show. See you there next year...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Altan
• High Kings
• Irish Fair
• Minnesota
• Tossers
• Celtic
• St Paul
• Hounds of Finn
• ireland
• folk
• live music
• Outside Track
• Rince na Chroi
• O' Shea Irish Dance
• Young Fiddlers Association
• Vikarbyns Lilla Spelmanslag
• Corda Mor
• uilleann
• Langer's Ball
• Wild Colonial Bhoys
• Poitin
• CIM
• Center for Irish Music
• Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band
• Kelly Pearson
• James Anderson
• Rumgumption

[Royceworld]

I also have the 2010 Fair I found and will put it up later today. May also try to get a better compression up of this, but it's a very long file. I also have it at Vimeo under my name. Royce Lerwick

[systemfighter220]

This is great, im glad you made this, had a great time.