Historic Savannah Feis: Irish Dancers Rock the South Again!

The Irish Dancers of Savannah hosted the 6th Historic Savannah Feis on August 6, 2012, at the Savannah Civic Center. With eight stages and the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians on hand to assist feis-goers, the hostess city of the South, Savannah, could not have offered a better or more-organized Irish dancing competition for Southern Region Irish dancers and their families!

Preliminary and Open Champion Results as tabulated and posted on-line by eFeis are limited to Irish dance school names and competitor numbers. Top Ten Schools in each competition are listed here, but we invite you to comment with the names of the dancers who placed.

Special congratulations to the dancers in Prelim under 14 and under 17 and Open Men under 18 who earned a perfect 300 score from the adjudicators!

Prelim under 8:

Mulligan, GA 1

Rince na h'Eireann NC 2

Hunt MD 3

Prelim under 10:

Drake School 1 and 5 and 7

Breffni Academy FL 2

Leneghan Academy OH 3

Tir na Greine, FL 4

Rince na h'Eireann NC 6

Danny Tighe NC 8

Prelim under 12: Special thanks to Feis America's FaceBook friend Karen Renee Smit-Daley!

Glor na Daire 1

Maple VA 2

Inis Cairde 3

Mulligan 4
Drake 5

Stephen Scariff FL 6

Rince na h'Eireann NC 7

Prelim under 14:
Drake School 1 with a perfect score of 300!

Rince na h'Eireann NC 2, 3 and 4

Leneghan Academy OH 5

Drake School 6

Stephen Scariff FL 7

Inis Cairde NC 8

Walsh Kelley, NC 9

Broesler, Maryland 10

Prelim under 16a:

Breffni Academy FL 1

Glor na Daire GA 2 and 5

Rince na h'Eireann NC 3

Mulligan, GA 4

Inis Cairde NC 6 and 10

Drake School 7

Katie Cox TN 8

King O'Sullivan GA 9

Prelim under 16b:

King O'Sullivan, GA 1

Breffni Academy FL 2

Walsh Kelley, NC 3 and 8

Drake School 4 and 6 and 7

Watters School, FL 5

Glor na Daire GA 9

Rince na h'Eireann NC 10

Prelim under 17:

Rince na h'Eireann NC 1 with a perfect score of 300!

Tir na Greine FL 2 and 4

Glor na Daire GA 3

Mulligan, GA 5

Prelim 17 & Over:

Drake School 1

Glor na Daire GA 2 and 8

Rince na h'Eireann NC 3

Tir na Greine, FL 4 and 6 and 7

Stephen Scariff FL 5

Open under 10:

Rince na h'Eireann NC 1

Breffni Academy FL 2

Open under 12:

Stephen Scariff FL 1

Mulligan, GA 2

Maple VA 3

Open under 14:

Mulligan, GA 1

Rince na h'Eireann NC 2

Watters School FL 3 and 4 and 5

Niall O'Leary NY 6

Stephen Scariff FL 7

Drake School 8 and 9 and 10

Open under 16:

Drake School 1

Rince na h'Eireann NC 2

King O'Sullivan, GA 3

Glor na Daire GA 4 and 5 and 6 and 8 and 9

Watters School FL 7 and 10

Open under 18 Ladies:

Drake School 1

McGinley FL 2

Glor na Daire GA 3T

Watters School FL 3T and 4

Yeates Academy FL 5

Breffni Academy FL 6

Open under 18 Men:

Glor na Daire GA 1 with a perfect score of 300!
Rince na h'Eireann NC 2 and 3

Open 18 & Over:

Rince na h'Eireann NC 1 and 2

Drake School 3 and 5 and 6

Watters School FL 4

Henry and Andrew Snead from Rince na h'Eireann (NC/SC)

Top Three Girls under 8 Preliminary Championship

Molly and Sarah Barton, Kierstin Finch and Maddie Loper

Scott Johnson, Savannah Wells and Erin Kaukereit

Glor na Daire (GA) friends and fans for life!

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North American Irish Dance Championships boys under 8 and 9 top five

Aidan & Alex Boni, Griffin Wilkins, Patrick Mello, Luca Hu, Braedan Mahoney from Harney (MA) and Declan Meager from Marie Moore (NJ) hanging out at the fountain with Feis America!

Ryan Wexler, Luke Voelkel, Jake Garman, Colm Alba and Matt Garman
from Nashville Irish Step Dancers (TN) sporting their NAN 2011 cheerwear!

Greetings from the 2011 American Irish Dancing Championships in Nashville! Yesterday’s events included solo competitions for Senior Ladies, Girls under 13, Girls under 17, Boys under 8, Boys under 9.

Top Five Results for Boys under 8 and under 9… Congratulations!

Boys under 8:
1-Ronan O’Brien from Anthony Costello (Ireland)
2-Peter Mildrew from Boyle (Southern US)
3-Joey Marino from Rince na Tiarna (NY)
4-Daniel Callahan from Lynn (CT/NY)
5-Declan Mangan from Leneghan (Mid America)

Boys under 9:
1-Collin Mountain from Richens Timm (Mid America)
2-Liam Webber from Mulvihill-Lynch (NY)
3-Jude Flurry from Muggivan (Southern US)
4-Ronan Burke from Shea-Jennings (NY)
5-Jacob Parkman from Harney (MA)

Feis America has been expressly prohibited from publishing real-time results or live commentary, but will post information once results are publicly available. For full results and updates in real-time, visit www.nanationals.net/2011.

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