Event Photos: Dublin Irish Festival 2010 - Redhead Photo Gathering - Day 3

Dublin Irish Festival 2010 - Redhead Photo Gathering - Day 3

Dublin, Ohio, United States of America

2010-08-08

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.

You can see the stands, where the redheads were on Saturday, are filling up with family and friends all wanting to take photos too! The stands became just as full of spectators cheering the redheads on, as it was full of redheads the previous day.	A view from inside the crowd.
The 2nd place winner of the Reddest Hair Contest amongst the crowd. You can see the festival leprechaun joining in too!	The herding will have to wait a little longer for the redheads. :-)
Side view of the big Sunday redhead group.	Photo courtesy of the official Dublin Irish Festival photographer. The biggest redhead gathering of the weekend - Sunday, August 8, 2010. Exactly 200 redheads! Thanks to everyone who came to the event and helped make it possible. Thanks to the Dublin Irish Festival council for letting Redhead World sponsor the festival and create this event. Thanks to Stephanie, Autumn, Bridget2600, Bridget's husband, VeryWellRed, and CelticCurl's parents for helping to staff the Redhead World tent! Let's make it even bigger next year!
Redheads posing with Andy/CelticCurls and the sign after the shoot.	Sarallovee and CelticCurls after the Sunday group photo.
More redheads wanting to pose with the sign.	This redheaded family missed the group photo and were very bummed, but CelticCurls's dad made sure they wouldn't be left out of our gallery!
Another cute shot of the redhead family missing from the group photo.	Andy/CelticCurls posing with one of the Redhead World banners. We may not have gotten the largest ever gathering, but still a success!
From around the Dublin Irish Festival - the sand sculpture is always a great tradition. The 2010 one features a Claddagh.	Brigid's Cross performed at one of the many stages later that evening.
Heather Timm, wife of John Timm of the famous Richens/Timm Academy of Irish Dance. Heather Timm takes center stage with her red hair and dancing talent at the festival's Dublin Stage just before the finale.	More of the Richens/Timm performance of Irish dance.
Riverdance - Reel Around the Sun solo dance by one of the talented Richens/Timm dancers.	The women join in for the conclusion of "Reel Around the Sun."
Performers getting ready for the finale. All the performers at the festival - local, regional, national, international - all come together to play some tunes and sing some songs.	Finale songs on Sunday evening.