The Guinness Fleadh brought together some of the biggest names in Rock and Roll. According to the New York Times however, it was Tommy Makem who was the highlight of the weekend.

"Perhaps the highlight of the Guinness Fleadh on Saturday on Randall's Island came at midday on one of the festival's smaller stages. There, backed only by an acoustic guitar, Tommy Makem bellowed a stentorian 'Four Green Fields,' the hallowed Irish leave-us-alone-with-our-beauty ballad he wrote in 1967, as the audience members pumped their hands in the air and sang in spellbound unison."

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