No wigs, please
DEC 27 — My nine-year-old daughter has a lovely head of glossy brown hair; why would she need to wear a wig?
But Amy and her team-mates were the only ones showing off their natural locks. Every other girl performed underneath a crown of perfectly coiled synthetic ringlets that jigged up-and-down almost in rhythm to the fiddler’s tune.
This was the annual Mid-Atlantic Oireachtas (Irish for gathering) championships held in Pennsylvania, and that last weekend in November was our first foray into the closed world of competitive Irish dancing.
At 8am on Saturday, the ballrooms of Philadelphia’s Marriott Hotel filled with hundreds of young dancers and their “Feis” mums (pronounced “fesh”, meaning festival in Irish) armed with hefty vanity cases.

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