Event Photos: Dublin Irish Festival 2010 - Redhead Photo Gathering - Day 1

Dublin Irish Festival 2010 - Redhead Photo Gathering - Day 1

Dublin, Ohio, United States of America

2010-08-06

Redhead World sponsored the 2010 Dublin Irish Festival and helped create a new redhead gathering at the festival. Redheads came together on each day of the festival to socialize and take a group photo.

The Dublin Irish Festival is the second largest Irish festival in the world with seven large stages of entertainment, music, and dance, as well as numerous exhibits, Irish food, sports, games, and much more. Another big attraction for redheads is the Irish Contests held in the Wendy's Wee Folk Tent on Sunday. There are three contests: Reddest Hair, Greenest Eyes, and Most Freckles with three age divisions including adults.

Redhead World attracted members from Colorado, New York, District of Columbia, Nebraska, California, and Oregon to the festival to participate in the redhead group photo.

While there are certainly sufficient redheads on the festival grounds – with more than 100,000 admissions per weekend – we did fall far shorter from having the world's largest gathering as hoped. Still, with a couple hundred redheads on the Sunday shoot, and with word spreading around, we hope we can do the event again and with a bigger crowd.

First Redhead Photo Gathering: The Sports Field was double booked accidentally, so a lot of would-be participants were confused and our first photo did not have many people.	First Redhead Photo on Friday, August 6, 2010, 7pm. A small but decent start for the weekend, considering the festival was only 2 hours running. Redhead World co-founder, Andy (CelticCurls) is in black in the back left, "The Alabama Redhead" in a green blouse in front, came all the way from Oregon with her dad, member "IrishUnic," winner of several redhead contests is next to Andy in the back, another frequeny contest winner "wcbishop" is second from the right, and "Stephanie" who was a big help running the tent on Friday with her partner, is on the left.
Schedule sign at the sports field with the double booked cornhole tournament going on.	Andy/CelticCurls chatting with a couple who came from California for the redhead event! The Irish Unicorn (member IrishUnic) at left and her husband looks on.
More socializing and planning after the first redhead photo.	Andy/CelticCurls with the hopeful sign.
Andy/CelticCurls and his mother holding down the tent Friday evening.	Another shot of the Redhead World tent at the 2010 Dublin Irish Festival.
Andy/CelticCurls's redhead dad manning the tent for awhile.	Andy/CelticCurls and father in the Redhead World tent.
Festival Entertainment: Gaelic Storm for Friday night only. Patrick Murphy introduces the friendliest Irishman in Columbus, Ohio. The band wrote a song about him.	More of Gaelic Storm and their honoree.
Gaelic Storm at the Celtic Rock Stage, Jessie playing fiddle.	More Gaelic Storm.
Patrick Murphy sings the new Gaelic Storm tune "Green Eyes, Red Hair" a coincidental perfect fit for all the redheads.	Steve Twigger of Gaelic Storm strumming along.