A summer set dancing party at the home of Susan Boon, Middletown, Maryland, August 2001.
Alan Beale and Séamus Ó Méalóid at the Milwaukee Irish Fest Summer School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 2001.
Partners swapped in and out of sets in Anne Keane's class at the Milwaukee Irish Fest Summer School, August 2001.
Séamus Ó Méalóid gave a bodhran serenade one evening in Milwaukee, August 2001.
An exhausted John Whelan after playing for a ceili entirely on his own at the Irish Cultural and Heritage Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 2001.
Acclaim for the Four Courts at the dance tent at the Milwaukee Irish Fest, August 2001.
This set was practicing outdoors without music at the Milwaukee Irish Fest, August 2001.
Pouring rain didn't stop these dancers at the Crawley Irish Festival in Sussex in August 2001. They danced three sets, sweeping the rain off the floor before each one.
Mark Eastman
Regular dancers following Michael Sexton's band may have noticed a substitute pianist for a few weeks in August 2001. The usual pianist, Pat Walsh from Cobh, Co Cork, married Lorraine Murphy, also from Cobh, that month and they were abroad on honeymoon for two weeks. Congratulations!
Paddy Hanafin