ST. PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATIONS

The Irish Breakfast Band, a group of local musicians, held a lively session at St. Elmo's Coffee Pub on Mt. Vernon Avenue on the evening of Monday, March 17. Pianist Martha Beall, fiddle players Sean Doherty, Tom Van Wagner, Peter Hayes, Sandy Hoar, Gordon Johnston, Melissa Gouffray and Jannie Johnston were joined by Jackie Desrosiers on the ukelele, Karen Helbrecht on banjo and bones, Lisa Anderson on flute and whistle, and Sue McIver on hammered dulcimer. Chuck Moran kept everyone in line on various percussion instruments.

This performance ended a very busy weekend schedule that started Friday night with a standing room only concert at Fairfax City's Old Town Hall, with the Boyle School of Irish Dance. Jannie Johnston played Monday evening after a long snow day of Irish dancing at Murphy's of Old Town, O'Donnell's, and National Harbor.

"It's my last St. Patrick's Day with the dance school," she mourned. Jannie, a senior at T. C. Williams, is off to college next year.