Posts By: What The Feis

The Mark of the Beast

For those of you who follow @whatthefeis on Twitter or on Facebook, you may recall my remarks about the dancer at the Indianapolis Feis who was dressed all in black, and whose number was 666. Now, I was raised Catholic, attended Catholic school, was an altar boy, etc… and am a practicing Christian now (not Catholic… Read more »

Indianapolis Feis

The Indianapolis Feis was held on June 8th, 2013 at the Indianapolis Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. A NOTE OF THANKS! Some of you may have seen my tweets where we screwed up and failed to register for this feis. Realizing our mistake the Wednesday before the feis, I tweeted on Thursday what happened and that we… Read more »

Detroit International Feis

The Detroit International Feis was held on June 1st, 2013 at the Ultimate Soccer Arena in Pontiac, Michigan. Venue – This is the first time I have attended the Detroit Feis and the first feis I have attended at the Ultimate Soccer Arena, and I thought it was excellent as a feis venue. There were six stages… Read more »

Cleveland Eats

I mentioned this place in the North Coast Feis Eats review back in February, but we hit it again this weekend and it seemed even better. If you have the opportunity to go to Grumpy’s Cafe  you have to take advantage of it. We went again last Sunday before the Cleveland Feis, got there shortly… Read more »

Cleveland Feis

The Cleveland Feis was held on May 26th, 2013 at the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. Venue – This is the first time I have attended the Cleveland Feis and the first feis I have attended at the Wolstein Center, and I thought it was just OK as feis a venue. There… Read more »

Dancer Nicknames

I have a feis-free weekend so I decided to write that blog post I have had on the back-burner. When my daughter started competing, she danced against the same people over and over again, and we began to recognize the girls (and an occasional boy) from feis to feis and year to year, but had… Read more »

Ashley Smith – Heartbeat of Home Update!

Ashley was chosen as one of the 10 Judges Choice winners for the Heartbeat Of Home competition. She will compete against the 9 other JC winners and the 10 Peoples Vote winners in on the 24th of May in Dublin, Ireland for the formal audition for Heartbeat of Home which opens in Dublin in September…. Read more »

Bluegrass Feis

The 2nd Annual Bluegrass Feis was held on May 12th, 2013 at the Lexington Convention Center in Lexington, KY. Read this whole review, starts a little negative but has its great points and finishes very strong! Please add your feis rating for the Bluegrass Feis at the bottom of this review! NOTE: If you are going… Read more »

Queen City Feis

The 10th Annual Queen City Feis was held Saturday, May 11th, 2013 at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati, OH. Venue – This is the third or fourth feis I have attended at the Duke energy Center, and I like it as a feis venue. There were seven performance stages in one large room and like Buckeye,… Read more »

Buckeye State Feis

The 5th Annual Buckeye Feis was held on April 20th, 2013 at the Franklin County Veterans Memorial in Columbus, OH. Please add your feis rating for the Buckeye State Feis at the bottom of this review! We did not attend the 4th Annual due to a school change, but you can see my other Buckeye State Feis reviews here…. Read more »