Food, Beer, and more Food

Friday we celebrated Dr Reed's Birthday with our Irish community supporters, mixing our food and culture together. Which is perfect timing because it was also the food festival that weekend. For the food festival, we worked it in the morning and afternoon shifts, I had morning shift both days which I liked because I could explore after my shift. It was amazing to see all the different cultures and types of food available the first day. I got a taco to eat and a crepe. The next day they moved to Gratton square where they had market stalls for venders which were more things to sell than food this time. So I didn't stay so long afterwards. That night though we went to the theatre to watch an Irish folk band named Clancy's Kitchen. They were very good and had instruments that I didn't think an Irish band would have like a fiddle and a banjo. Although with these instruments, I was reminded of the American folk music also. With the sounds and premise of the songs. It make me think about which came first and which followed who. In my opinion I think they both influenced each other because of the emigration of Irish to the United States. Seamus Heaney wrote about this slightly in his poem "Crossings", explaining that things happen when people or places cross over and they come out for the better of both parties involved.