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Speaker 1: Marketing director for Old Saint Pats is our friend Rick

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Speaker 1: Patchinski celebrating one hundred and eighty years and Old Pats

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Speaker 1: announces Irish Week. I'm just going to call him Ski.

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Speaker 1: I think we have that connection. Rich.

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Speaker 2: Welcome in, sir, thanks to Skier Pie. I answered it both.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks having ma'am.

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Speaker 1: So tell me about what you got going on this year.

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Speaker 1: I know that Irish Week is always fun and nobody

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Speaker 1: does Saint Pat's a week and Sat Patt's Day like Chicago.

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Speaker 1: So fire away, what do you have going on?

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Speaker 2: It's a great week for us and for the city

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Speaker 2: of Chicago. What we do is we invite people to

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Speaker 2: come down and be part of it, and we begin

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Speaker 2: it each week for our week with a unique blend

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Speaker 2: of Celtic music, dance, storytelling with our Sinson Nagal event

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Speaker 2: that highlights the contributions in the history of the Irish people.

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Speaker 2: And this goes back about almost thirty years. We're in

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Speaker 2: our twenty seventh year of Simpson Nagal and it was

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Speaker 2: a gift of the Irish culture Chicago and the celebration

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Speaker 2: of Old sat past one hundred and fiftieth anniversary by

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Speaker 2: Mayor Daily and by missus Maggie Daily along with Patrick

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Speaker 2: and Shirley Ryan. So on Monday, March the ninth, at

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Speaker 2: seven thirty at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and tickets go

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Speaker 2: on sale today at nine o'clock, we celebrate Old Saint

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Speaker 2: Patrick's twenty seventh year doing steamsa as we have a

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Speaker 2: theme of one hundred and eighty years of Old Saint

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Speaker 2: Patrick's and the Irish in Chicago, where we celebrate two

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Speaker 2: centuries of heritage, social action and future vision. And what

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Speaker 2: we do is we bring in world class talent. It

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Speaker 2: is hosted by Father Jack Wall who resurrected Old Saint

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Speaker 2: Pat's back in the late eighties and early nineties, and

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Speaker 2: other guests. And we have the Metropolis Orchestra with the

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Speaker 2: Old Saint Pass Choir. There's almost ninety members in that

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Speaker 2: choir singing that evening. We have the Gardner Brothers, they're

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Speaker 2: five time world champions Irish dancers.

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Speaker 1: What about Michael Platt Lady got Flat Lee well a

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Speaker 1: lord of the day.

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Speaker 2: If you'd like to come down, well, we can squeeze

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Speaker 2: them in. I'll talk to our our director of Mark

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Speaker 2: about that. Dobinic there's another soloist the have Broadway singers

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Speaker 2: Meghan McGinnis, Devin DeSantis who does local productions here in

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Speaker 2: Chicago too, and even Chicago's Katherine O'Connell. And then we

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Speaker 2: of course have the Irish traditional bands, the Trinity Irish

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Speaker 2: Dancers are there. And then to the Leo High School Choir.

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Speaker 1: Now hold on, I know because because the yeah, the

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Speaker 1: Leo High School Choir, I mean they've they're a new

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Speaker 1: national sensation.

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Speaker 2: And we've got a special surprises and Leo Choir is

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Speaker 2: going to join us for that and we look forward

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Speaker 2: to inviting people down take us. Go on sale tomorrow

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Speaker 2: at nine o'clock at Old Saint Pats dot com and

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Speaker 2: you go to community and then I'll link you there

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Speaker 2: and the Saint is s t and Old Saint.

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Speaker 1: Pats I got you, I got you. We'll put this

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Speaker 1: out on our social media. You know. I was always

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Speaker 1: told that, you know, nobody did Saint Patrick's Day like Chicago,

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Speaker 1: that it was a little it wasn't is celebrated in Ireland.

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Speaker 1: And then I had a chance to go to Ireland

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Speaker 1: on Saint Patrick's Day many on many many occasions with

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Speaker 1: another radio station I used to work with, and man,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you it is out of control, and Chicago

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Speaker 1: does do it up pretty pretty darn close to what

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Speaker 1: they do over there in the Emerald Isle. So we'll

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Speaker 1: have some fun. We'll put it on the social media

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Speaker 1: because you work on getting Michael Flatley there. I want

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Speaker 1: to see him with his open shirts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we'll do our best. There's a lot though

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Speaker 2: that we have to pack in and if you want

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Speaker 2: to come down, we also have a party called Shamrock

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Speaker 2: and that happens on the fourteenth where it's a family

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Speaker 2: friendly event. We have a pop up pub. It's a

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Speaker 2: place you can go with your family. There's lots of

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Speaker 2: drinks and food.

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Speaker 1: When you're talking about drinks. When you're talking about drinks,

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Speaker 1: is any any of these drinks? Are they alcoholic beverages

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Speaker 1: or there.

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Speaker 2: Might be a few cocktails involved, all right, And we

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Speaker 2: offer a special deal. So if you know Ray and

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Speaker 2: Nick you want to come on down, please do. And

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Speaker 2: it wouldn't be an Irish party from eleven to five

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Speaker 2: on the fourteenth if we didn't have a raffle too.

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Speaker 2: So there's a pot of gold Raffle nine twenty thousand dollars,

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Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty tickets one hundred bucks eat. There's

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Speaker 2: an early bird prize too, so we need you to

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Speaker 2: buy them now. Those tickets go on about piers. There's bagpipers,

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Speaker 2: you know last year I'm going to ruin it. The

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Speaker 2: Shannon Rovers showed up. In addition to all the great

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Speaker 2: dance groups that were there, there's bands, food and drinking.

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Speaker 2: Again it's family friendly to you. There's crafts ballunartists, face,

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Speaker 2: basing base bas so there's something for everybody. We invite

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Speaker 2: you to come down. And because we're Old Saint Paths,

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Speaker 2: we started off with a civic mass at eight thirty

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Speaker 2: in the morning and more information. If you go to

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Speaker 2: our website Old Saint Pats dot org community you can

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Speaker 2: find out about the civic mass, sham Rock and party

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Speaker 2: which I know you're going to show up to, and

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Speaker 2: the shuinsa Nagal and maybe mister Flatley. We'll open your

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Speaker 2: first appearance, yes, open shirt.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Lord of the Dance, Maestro the Dance.

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Speaker 2: You guys want to If you guys want to sing

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Speaker 2: a dance, let me know.

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding? We'd love to? All right, my friend, man,

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Speaker 1: you said it all right there. I don't think did

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Speaker 1: we leave anything out? I don't think so nice to

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Speaker 1: have you have, buddy, We wish you good, we wish

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Speaker 1: you a great Irish week, and we'll make sure we

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Speaker 1: get the word out for you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: See that that's one of those things that is so Chicago, right,

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Speaker 1: old Saint Pats, right and and uh and Nick, relax

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Speaker 1: and have a Guinness