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We're at the Irish Festival today to find out about Ireland.# Are you ready?

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[Music] Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Happy St. Patrick's .. Ireland is an island in northwestern# Europe next to Great Britain.

Ireland is a country filled with castles,# music, dancing, and the color green.

People call it the Emerald Island because the land# is covered with green grass, hills, and clover.

One of Ireland's biggest celebrations is St. Patrick's Day.

It's celebrated in# many countries around the world.

People wear green and celebrate Irish# culture with music, dancing, and fun.

Parades are often a big part of the celebration.

[Music] You will see lots of shamrocks on St.# Patrick's Day.

Shamrocks are tiny green plants with three heart-shaped leaves, and they're# considered to be very lucky.

You'll also see lots of images of leprechauns.

Leprechauns# are small, mischievous fairies from Irish stories.

According to legend, they hide# a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

Some friends and I got a chance to make# our own pots of gold and rainbows.

[Music] What are you making?

[Applause] Clover and# a hat.

the leprechaun hat.

Your hair looks awesome.

Thank you.

Then it's time for# some music.

Irish music is fun, upbeat, and often uses instruments like a fiddle,# a special drum, and bag pipes.

[Music] So, we are the Burn Brothers all the# way from Dunny Gaul in Ireland.

So, uh, introduce yourself there.

I'm Luca.

I'm Finn.# I'm Dempsey.

Wonderful.

We play traditional Irish music and the boys are dancers as well.

I saw# that.

You're amazing.

That is so much fun.

Tell me about your instrument.

This is a traditional# Irish viron.

It's It's from Ireland.

So, it's made Ireland and it's made out of goat skin and it's# like one stick hold my hands and I go like this.

Let's hear your instrument.

So, this is just a# traditional guitar.

I also have a four string Irish banjo I play.

So, I just heard that.# Amazing.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Great.

And what are you playing?

This is just the the Irish# put accordion.

It's terrific.

Can I hear it not?

[Music] Wonderful.

And tell us about your I play# this Scottish pipes.

how to play the illan pipes, which are the Irish pipes, the fiddle, guitar,# all the whistles, tin whistles, all that kind of stuff.

So, we have about 15 instruments between us# and when we're doing a theater show, we we switch around all the instruments and between songs,# music, and dancing.

And uh yeah, it's great fun.

[Music] This is called the Highland Pipes.

It's# a very special instrument that we play and it's played all over the world.

It really is.

and it# can play some very sad music and it can play some really fun music.

And today for St. Patrick's Day,# we're having lots of fun.

Bag pipers often wear kilts.

A kilt is a special skirt that boys and men# wear in Scotland and sometimes Ireland.

It's made of a thick cloth with a colorful plaid pattern# called a tartan.

So, do you blow directly into it?

Well, I I flew and you go into this into here and# then it fills up this bag here.

And this is called a bag pipe.

The bag itself, right?

And then I# have three drones right here.

They're called drones.

They are.

There's two teners.

And then# I have a big long one which is called the bass.

Okay.

And that makes a real deep deep deep sound.# And then this one here, it only has nine holes and that makes nine different notes.

And my fingers# move really fast and that makes all the music.

[Music] Yay.

[Music] Irish music makes you want to dance.# Irish dancing is fun and energetic.

Dancers keep their arms straight by their# sides while their feet move super fast.

Bye.

Happy St. Patty's Day.