Pat and Pete Together again, bringin' a wee bit O' the Irish

By Karl Vercouteren

“St. Pat’s at St. Pete’s” is going virtual this year.  It is the 23rd-annual St. Patrick’s Day concert benefiting St. Peter’s Landmark after last year's COVID-19 cancellation.  The videotaped program will be posted to YouTube on March 17.  Go to YouTube and look up “St Pats at St Petes 2021.”  Bagpiper Rory O’Halloran will join Cascade Singers community choir directed by Garry Estep, the “Anytime Gals,” Mairead Beane-Kelly dancing a jig, and the “Almost-All-Irish-Almost-All-Brass Band” for Irish classical music, a novelty number, traditional favorites and a sing-along.  The benefit concert goes a long way toward paying the historic concert venue’s utility bills that continue in spite of the closures of this past year.  Viewers will be invited to send donations to St. Peter’s Landmark, P.O. Box 882, The Dalles, OR 97058.  

Rory O’Halloran, famous for senior graduation sunsets at The Dalles High School, and his magical pipes will be featured in a video to be broadcast via YouTube for a St. Patrick’s Day celebration featuring the Cascade Singers. The concert will benefit St. Peter’s Landmark.