May 6, 2025 • 8 mins
WHO DOESN'T LOVE IRISH MUSIC AND DANCING? How can you not love Irish step dancing the music that is so distinctly Irish? If that's you, you're going to love a Taste of Ireland, the show that brings Irish music and dance to life. They have performances all over the front range and I'm talking with Alliyah O’Hare at 1pm about the show. The internationally acclaimed “A Taste of Ireland - The Irish Music and Dance Sensation” brings a line-up of world Irish dance champions to Colorado. Combining traditional Irish music given a modern twist with jaw-dropping dance performances, and vibrant storytelling. This high-octane show features stars from Lord of the Dance and Riverdance as well as other World Champions, plus live musicians, to transport audiences through the heart and soul of Ireland's culture and history. Buy your tickets here and do it today, some of these dates are all but sold out.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have more good news for you, and it has
to do with a show that is making its way
in multiple venues across Colorado, and it is called a
Taste of Ireland. And I'm thrilled to have one of
the extremely talented dancers, Aleah O'Hare on the show with
me right now to talk about a Taste of Ireland.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
First of all, Leah, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I love that you've got your Bess Pro Shop trucker
hat on.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Where did that? Where did that come from?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We picked that up?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I think it was in some part of Tennessee anyway,
or Texas, one of the two. But yeah, we all
we all love a bass Pro Shop, so we all
went and grabbed on.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, very stylish and now you're practically American. Just to
let you know if you get a Bucky's T shirt
at some point in that citizenship right there.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Oh, I've tried, but they didn't have them in my side, terrible.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Let's talk a little bit a Taste of Ireland.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It is a it is a spectacular show and I
have had multiple occasons where I've been able to see
specific performances of Irish dance I love Irish music. You
guys have put it all together, and this looks like
extremely high energy. I mean, am I am I right
in thinking?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yes, definitely, it's definitely high energy, which is great because
then the crowds feel the energy. And you know, it's
so easy to be high energy when you dance them
with some of your best friends and perform them with
some of your best friends. And I felt like the
audience can really seen off that and then they become
high energy, and yeah, everyone's always up on their feet,
hopping along.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Let's talk about this Irish dancing for a moment because
it is very specific, it's very precise. It looks really
hard to me as fast as your feet. That looks
really hard. How long have you been dancing?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
So I'm at twenty two now and I've been doncing
since i was six, So yeah, I've been done.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
For a very long time.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
And I think everyone in the company started with obviously
doing competitions, and we all competed on a world class level,
and then we auditioned for the show and we decided
to take it, you know, into a performance level. And
I've been with the show now since I started in
twenty nineteen, I did a short stimp with them, and
(02:24):
then I rejoined in twenty twenty two and have been
touring with them ever since.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So let me ask this, because I mean, you guys.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
How hard do you rehearse or workout or exercise or
whatever while you're on tour?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Because this how long is the show?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It looks like a workout in and of itself, So
how much more do you get?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
The show is definitely a workout.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
It's two hours long with a twenty minute intermission, and
we do a lot of dancing. The dancing is all live,
so you know, you've definitely got to rehearse for a while.
We always do rehearsals for about a week before all
the show starts, but we've all been doing the show
for a while, so you know, even before rehearsals, we'll
(03:06):
make sure we go over all the steps and drid
all the steps because it's live. You know, you can't
miss any beats. There's no no covering, no covering you.
And then mass run tour, you've got to stay healthy.
You've got to eat good. You know, you've got to go.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
To the gym.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Make sure you because it's a some of the dancers
are long as well, so you've got to have the
fitness to keep going and yeah, doing it every night,
So it's fun.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You guys are traveling all over the place and what
I always find fun in Saint Patrick's d here is,
as you now know, is a massive holiday and for
some reason, everybody thinks that they are Irish when you
guys are.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Out in it back, do they tell you like, oh.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
My great grandfather's second cousin was from Ireland.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yes, everyone loves everyone always has I've got like in
America and I'm at home. Everyone always has a little
bit of Irish in them and everyone wants to be Irish.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
So it's definitely be fun.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So let me talk to you a little bit about
the tradition of Irish dancing in Ireland because you started
when you were six years old.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
How important is Irish.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Dancing culturally within Ireland.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yeah, it's definitely very important. You know, it's a big
part of the culture. And I think even if you
don't have any Irish in you, the show takes you
all through Ireland's history. It takes through the tultuous parts,
and then it also takes you through some of the
fun parts, like the hurling and all good things like
that through music and dancing. So it's good to learn
(04:36):
if you don't know anything about Ireland, but if you
do have Irish cultural or background, you think it's a
great way to connect to that. And it's so nice
for me as my family is Irish, so it's a
great way for me to connect.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Well, you guys heritage too.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You guys have shows.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Let me read all of these off that are within
driving distance starting Sunday, May eighteenth, you guys are in Greeley,
then Parker, then Colorado Springs the Junction, then Denver, then
Cheyenne and then Laramie. So that's within our reasonable radio
broadcast era.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Actually, let me go ahead.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
They're going to be a Lincoln, Nebraska too because we
have people who listen up there as well. So you
have tons of dates coming up, and the tickets are
very reasonably priced. When you guys are doing these shows,
what kind of I mean, I imagine the reaction has
to just be incredible.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yes, we love touring America because the reaction is always incredible.
The crowds, you know, they love the show. They're always
up on their feet by the end of it. They're
always singing along and after the show we always do
a part that's called sign and so we go out
and we can take pictures with the crowds and speak
(05:47):
to them, and you know, they always love it.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So yeah, it's it's definitely very rewarding.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Aliah O'Hare is my guest.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
She is a dancer with a Taste of Ireland, which
is a show that is coming all over the places.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I just say they have tons of dates.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Although I did look earlier, a lot of these dates
only have like a few single tickets here and there,
so it's I know, the show in the Springs has some.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Good seats still available.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
The show and Parker is almost sold out, so if
you're gonna buy tickets, you're gonna buy them like today
for these shows.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Aliah, I hope you enjoy you've gone to.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You go into a lot of smaller towns, which is
kind of really cool, I'm guessing for.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You, because you get to see the whole country.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yes, definitely, it's definitely so cool and to see the
difference as well between the smaller towns and then obviously
we do the bigger towns too, so it's nice to
see the difference in the comparison between the two souls
that you really have tord America.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, I mean, but where are the places that if
somebody that you knew back home said where should I
go on vacation?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What would you say?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yeah, Well, I love, love, love the cowboy, the cowboy vibe.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So I love Tennessee and I love Texas.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
But I'm really excited to go to Colorado because I've
never been, so, yeah, have you I'm really excited. And
I know that Denver and Colorado springs. It looks it
looks quatus very excited.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well, I didn't know you've never been here before, because
I was going to ask you, do you know about
altitude because altitude is weird, tough. Yeah, drink lots and
lots of water before you get here, lots and lots
of like excessive amount of water.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah. We did another few shows that the altitude was very,
very high, so we're used to it.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It makes it a little bit harder, but it's it's
a good challenge.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, you know football teams that come to play our
football team here in the Mile High City, they have
oxygen tanks on the sideline, so there are guys can
suck oxygen. Do you guys have oxygen backstage.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
But we don't. But we were, we were looking into it,
so we might. We might be getting some for Colorado.
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
But we're all very fit, so we can. We can,
we can survive.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I can't even imagine dancing like you guys dance at altitude,
so I may have to come see you just to
watch you pull it off.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yes, yes you should, Alio.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Hari, thank you so much for making time for us today.
I've got the link to a Taste of irelandshow dot com.
I've got it on my blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
Go and buy your tickets today, Aliah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So much, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Thank you all right, bye bye
I have more good news for you, and it has
to do with a show that is making its way
in multiple venues across Colorado, and it is called a
Taste of Ireland. And I'm thrilled to have one of
the extremely talented dancers, Aleah O'Hare on the show with
me right now to talk about a Taste of Ireland.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
First of all, Leah, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I love that you've got your Bess Pro Shop trucker
hat on.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Where did that? Where did that come from?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We picked that up?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I think it was in some part of Tennessee anyway,
or Texas, one of the two. But yeah, we all
we all love a bass Pro Shop, so we all
went and grabbed on.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, very stylish and now you're practically American. Just to
let you know if you get a Bucky's T shirt
at some point in that citizenship right there.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Oh, I've tried, but they didn't have them in my side, terrible.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Let's talk a little bit a Taste of Ireland.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It is a it is a spectacular show and I
have had multiple occasons where I've been able to see
specific performances of Irish dance I love Irish music. You
guys have put it all together, and this looks like
extremely high energy. I mean, am I am I right
in thinking?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yes, definitely, it's definitely high energy, which is great because
then the crowds feel the energy. And you know, it's
so easy to be high energy when you dance them
with some of your best friends and perform them with
some of your best friends. And I felt like the
audience can really seen off that and then they become
high energy, and yeah, everyone's always up on their feet,
hopping along.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Let's talk about this Irish dancing for a moment because
it is very specific, it's very precise. It looks really
hard to me as fast as your feet. That looks
really hard. How long have you been dancing?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
So I'm at twenty two now and I've been doncing
since i was six, So yeah, I've been done.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
For a very long time.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
And I think everyone in the company started with obviously
doing competitions, and we all competed on a world class level,
and then we auditioned for the show and we decided
to take it, you know, into a performance level. And
I've been with the show now since I started in
twenty nineteen, I did a short stimp with them, and
(02:24):
then I rejoined in twenty twenty two and have been
touring with them ever since.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So let me ask this, because I mean, you guys.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
How hard do you rehearse or workout or exercise or
whatever while you're on tour?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Because this how long is the show?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It looks like a workout in and of itself, So
how much more do you get?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
The show is definitely a workout.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
It's two hours long with a twenty minute intermission, and
we do a lot of dancing. The dancing is all live,
so you know, you've definitely got to rehearse for a while.
We always do rehearsals for about a week before all
the show starts, but we've all been doing the show
for a while, so you know, even before rehearsals, we'll
(03:06):
make sure we go over all the steps and drid
all the steps because it's live. You know, you can't
miss any beats. There's no no covering, no covering you.
And then mass run tour, you've got to stay healthy.
You've got to eat good. You know, you've got to go.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
To the gym.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Make sure you because it's a some of the dancers
are long as well, so you've got to have the
fitness to keep going and yeah, doing it every night,
So it's fun.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You guys are traveling all over the place and what
I always find fun in Saint Patrick's d here is,
as you now know, is a massive holiday and for
some reason, everybody thinks that they are Irish when you
guys are.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Out in it back, do they tell you like, oh.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
My great grandfather's second cousin was from Ireland.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yes, everyone loves everyone always has I've got like in
America and I'm at home. Everyone always has a little
bit of Irish in them and everyone wants to be Irish.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
So it's definitely be fun.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So let me talk to you a little bit about
the tradition of Irish dancing in Ireland because you started
when you were six years old.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
How important is Irish.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Dancing culturally within Ireland.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yeah, it's definitely very important. You know, it's a big
part of the culture. And I think even if you
don't have any Irish in you, the show takes you
all through Ireland's history. It takes through the tultuous parts,
and then it also takes you through some of the
fun parts, like the hurling and all good things like
that through music and dancing. So it's good to learn
(04:36):
if you don't know anything about Ireland, but if you
do have Irish cultural or background, you think it's a
great way to connect to that. And it's so nice
for me as my family is Irish, so it's a
great way for me to connect.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Well, you guys heritage too.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You guys have shows.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Let me read all of these off that are within
driving distance starting Sunday, May eighteenth, you guys are in Greeley,
then Parker, then Colorado Springs the Junction, then Denver, then
Cheyenne and then Laramie. So that's within our reasonable radio
broadcast era.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Actually, let me go ahead.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
They're going to be a Lincoln, Nebraska too because we
have people who listen up there as well. So you
have tons of dates coming up, and the tickets are
very reasonably priced. When you guys are doing these shows,
what kind of I mean, I imagine the reaction has
to just be incredible.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yes, we love touring America because the reaction is always incredible.
The crowds, you know, they love the show. They're always
up on their feet by the end of it. They're
always singing along and after the show we always do
a part that's called sign and so we go out
and we can take pictures with the crowds and speak
(05:47):
to them, and you know, they always love it.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So yeah, it's it's definitely very rewarding.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Aliah O'Hare is my guest.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
She is a dancer with a Taste of Ireland, which
is a show that is coming all over the places.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I just say they have tons of dates.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Although I did look earlier, a lot of these dates
only have like a few single tickets here and there,
so it's I know, the show in the Springs has some.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Good seats still available.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
The show and Parker is almost sold out, so if
you're gonna buy tickets, you're gonna buy them like today
for these shows.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Aliah, I hope you enjoy you've gone to.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You go into a lot of smaller towns, which is
kind of really cool, I'm guessing for.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You, because you get to see the whole country.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yes, definitely, it's definitely so cool and to see the
difference as well between the smaller towns and then obviously
we do the bigger towns too, so it's nice to
see the difference in the comparison between the two souls
that you really have tord America.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, I mean, but where are the places that if
somebody that you knew back home said where should I
go on vacation?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What would you say?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yeah, Well, I love, love, love the cowboy, the cowboy vibe.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So I love Tennessee and I love Texas.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
But I'm really excited to go to Colorado because I've
never been, so, yeah, have you I'm really excited. And
I know that Denver and Colorado springs. It looks it
looks quatus very excited.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well, I didn't know you've never been here before, because
I was going to ask you, do you know about
altitude because altitude is weird, tough. Yeah, drink lots and
lots of water before you get here, lots and lots
of like excessive amount of water.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah. We did another few shows that the altitude was very,
very high, so we're used to it.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It makes it a little bit harder, but it's it's
a good challenge.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, you know football teams that come to play our
football team here in the Mile High City, they have
oxygen tanks on the sideline, so there are guys can
suck oxygen. Do you guys have oxygen backstage.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
But we don't. But we were, we were looking into it,
so we might. We might be getting some for Colorado.
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
But we're all very fit, so we can. We can,
we can survive.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I can't even imagine dancing like you guys dance at altitude,
so I may have to come see you just to
watch you pull it off.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yes, yes you should, Alio.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Hari, thank you so much for making time for us today.
I've got the link to a Taste of irelandshow dot com.
I've got it on my blog at mandy'sblog dot com.
Go and buy your tickets today, Aliah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So much, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Thank you all right, bye bye
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