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| River House Inn |
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| The New River |
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| The lawn in front of the Inn |
hors 'oeuvres and dinner. Yesterday the featured artist was Mickey Harte who is a popular singer in Ireland. He recently won the You're A Star show, which is the equivalent of American Idol. Mickey is going to be touring the country and his first stop was ASU. His producer lives and works in Grassy Creek, so his second gig was here.
He has a wonderful singing voice and was very personable. I took this video with my little Olympus camera. He had a lyrical Irish brogue and I could easily picture him singing in a pub with a beer at his side. The weather was absolutely perfect, sunny and warm. Every once in a while leaves would rain behind him from a tree hidden by the house. There were about 50 people there. We sat on the porch in wooden rockers and there were people sitting in chairs on the front lawn. Everyone was sipping wine and enjoying themselves. Mickey sang for about 90 minutes and we went in to dinner around 6 PM. We didn't leave until 8:15.
Our first course was squash soup-about 1/4 inch of soup in a bowl. Next we got a 2 inch round potato patty with a small piece of haddock on top covered with tomato puree. The third course was two pieces of pork loin 1/2 inch thick and 2 inches round on top of lentils and savoy cabbage. Dessert consisted of cooked apples on top of a stack of phyllo with a melon ball sized scoop of coconut sorbet. While none of went home hungry, we were sore from sitting all day. The food was actually quite tasty and was wonderfully presented.
What I couldn't figure out was why he wore those short pants with the buckles. Is that the style to come? I had better get a pair for hubby.
Here are some links to Mickey Harte:
http://www.mickeyhartemusic.com/
http://www.mickeyharte.com/
I'm sure you'll be hearing more about Mickey Harte. You can tell people you saw him here first.
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