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The Jam has a “St. Patty’s Day Blues Party” that’s basically the usual Uptown Kings Tuesday blues jam, but on the blue-green side. Guitar wiz Andy Widman is featured and he certainly looks Irish. Is he?

Last but not least, there’s a punk-Irish thing assembled by the folks behind the upcoming What The Pop Music Video Festival. “Forget stupid green beer and lying leprechauns with their broken rainbow promises — the end of the rainbow does hold gold this year at the Logger Bar,” they proclaim, inviting all to a “full night of Pogues covers at your favorite Blue Lake watering hole” delivered by “a barbershop quartet, thrash ukuleles, a Pogues jazz odyssey and a marching leprechaun brass band, all hosted by several green clad excitable characters,” plus “St. Paddy’s prizes and mashed potatoes, all for free (well not the potatoes).” So there you go: Turn that “Dirty Old Town” Blue Lake green on St. Pat’s Day. And don’t forget to toast the poor banished snakes.

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