"Day before St. Patrick's day" in city philarmonia.

**trojanrabbit** · 19th March 07, 03:12 AM

On last friday here in Novosibirsk Philarmonia was great concert named "The day before st. Patrick's day" or also "Treasures of celts". In these year it was part of anniversary, 70th season of our philarmonia. Here was some irish dancers from all around Western Siberia, local irish band named "StreetFiddlers", duet of pipers "Baron-Anneix" from Bretagne, local acoustic band "Men in kilts" and russian scottish clan Balmor(no, they have not scottish ancestry as far as i know, but they are scottish in mind

), and, finally, chamber orchestra. It was great, despite of some sound problems in hall. Many friends and good atmosphere. Unfortunately i have not yet finished black danim XKilt and outside was about -15C, so i wasn't in kilt, but i wore it after, when me, two friends and StreetFiddlers moved to private club near my home for one more their concert. I never before was in that club and i think i never again will in it without good reason. Damn, people in not responded on good music, played for about two hours. No applause, no dances except us three, but after concert they start to dance disco or something same. And also there was too many smoke for heavy dancing.
P.S. yesterday we finally got real spring, so today it's about 10C outside.
P.P.S. i'm sorry for my english but i tried to be as good as i can. And when i'll got some photoes i'll post it here.
P.P.P.S. some photos from band concert on next day in another city, where i wasn't :

and two musicians from Bretagne:

bagpipe and oboe

**turpin** · 19th March 07, 06:21 AM

Very interesting to see that celtic heritage is celebrated in places we'd never think of. thanks for posting the pictures, TR.

**Dirk Skene** · 19th March 07, 06:33 AM

I was suprised to read your post. I would never have thought there would have been a St. Pat's celibration in Siberia. But then I though .. hey, the Russians will take any reason to party as well

Too bad most of the crowd did not appreciate the celtic music. I guess most were there for the disco

**trojanrabbit** · 19th March 07, 06:45 AM

As russian i think so

but i think also what we not only.
It was big contrast against usual concerts of band. Last some years they drive most of celtic influence in our city, which is not so small. Third city in Russia by population as i heard.
And also funny fact - another moderator of celtic_nsk (there only in russian, but present some photoes) has his birthday on 17th, exactly in st. Pat's day.

**Tartan Hiker** · 19th March 07, 08:17 AM

Trojanrabbit,
Welcome to X-Marks. There are some great photos on the "celtic nsk" site you linked to. Looks like people there really know how to have a good dance party!

Also, do you know the tartan that is in the background on the site? I'm guessing that the red/white/green is a national color set....Belarus perhaps?

**trojanrabbit** · 19th March 07, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by Tartan Hiker

Trojanrabbit,
Also, do you know the tartan that is in the background on the site? I'm guessing that the red/white/green is a national color set....Belarus perhaps?

No, it's not Belarus. I asked founder of community and primary moderator. He said that it's Irish Diaspora tartan.

**Nick** · 19th March 07, 10:50 AM

The day before St. Patrick's day is St. Urho's Day, and is celebrated by wearing purple. St. Urho drove all the grasshoppers out of Finland.

Well, anyway, that's the tradition here. It's a Finnish-American thing, there's more Finns here than anywhere else except Finland.

**BEEDEE** · 19th March 07, 11:31 AM

trojanrabbit - I've never been to Novosibirsk but made several trips to Moscow 1991 - 1997. Glad to see thing are still changing for the better over there.

Regards,

Brian

**trojanrabbit** · 19th March 07, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by Nick

Well, anyway, that's the tradition here. It's a Finnish-American thing, there's more Finns here than anywhere else except Finland.

I didn't know about Finnish meaning of this day but we celebrate St. Pat's day. It becomes tradition to celebrate on evening 16th mar. in last year because we didn't had good enough hall in city center for it on 17th mar. 2006.
Anyway exists old russian sentence "Kto prazdniku rad, tot nakanune p'yan" which i can translate as "Men who really enjoys celebration, starts drunk for it in previous day". But keep in mind it's not exact translation. It's hard to me to translate exact meaning of that sentence.