Maire Clerkin News

San Diego has a sizeable, vibrant Irish community, with popular Irish pubs and restaurants, shops, businesses, bands and dance classes. Most are successful. So it may come as a refreshing change to celebrate the hapless adventures of an Irish Dancing failure!

The Music Center inaugurates FLASHFEST with an event free to the public at Grand Park on Sunday, November 4 from 1 pm to 5 pm. FLASHFEST is a new pop-up arts happening that explores all art forms in myriad ways with appeal to all ages and interests. Each event will turn on a particular theme, which will be up for a short time and then disappear until the next FLASHFEST. The first event at Grand Park, "High Roads + Railroads," features roots music from Irish and African American traditions.