The Bogside Rogues at center stage.
There’s practically an Irish pub, restaurant, or gift shop in every other storefront in Phoenixville, the former steel town along the Schuykill in Montgomery County. That makes it the perfect place for a street fair featuring Irish music, food and vendors.
Check out the photos from the third annual event held Saturday, May 8.
Brian Boru drum major shows off his natty chapeau.
Phoenixville went to the dogs this past Saturday.
It also went to the pipers and drummers, didgeridoo players, Irish dancers, merchants of meat pies and purveyors of claddagh rings, soft-sculpture Guinness hats and plastic Claymores.
The 2nd annual Celtic Street Fair brought ’em all out to this little town along the banks of the Schuylkill. And on a somewhat cool and cloudy day, this wonderfully old-fashioned town (a real town, not a bedroom berg with a superhighway running up the middle of it) with its quaint shops and the smell of fish and chips and the skirl of the pipes in the air could almost make you feel like you were somewhere else. Somewhere like, oh, Ennis or Ballynahinch or Westport or any old Irish market town you care to think of.
We’ve assembled a neat little pile of photos from the day.