Adult Irish Dancers Podcast

This week, we're chatting with former Wiggles star, competitive adult Irish dancer and ASL advocate Emma Watkins!

This week, our guest is professional Irish dancer and director/choreographer of Next Step, Brandon Asazawa!

This week, we're talking dance mom and CRDM dancer Erin Clarke-Klein!

This week, we're talking to actress and writer of the short film (and daughter of LOTD composer Ronan Hardiman) "That's So Feis" Ali Hardiman!

This week, we're talking to two time Southern Region Oireachtas adult champion Cesar Gutierrez!

This week, we're talking to Tara Ostanriseven and Cailin Weatherall, sisters who continue to dominate the adult champs category in CLRG!

This week, we're talking to Gann Monroe, an open platform dancer living in Alaska, who recently competed at one of CLRG's new feiseanna that invited all dancers to compete. She also discusses how her Irish dance outfit works for her drag king persona!

This week, we're talking to Amy Feldman, a CLRG dancer from Australia who is also a physiotherapist, and just came back from a two-year-long recovery from injury.

This week, we're talking to Advanced Adult dancer Rachel Dieter, who switched from CRN to CLRG last year and just competed at her first CLRG NANs!

This week, we find out what it's like to win Nationals (twice!) with adult champ dancer Michelle DeGrace... while she was injured.

This week, licensed mental health professional Lauren Elizabeth joins us to talk about her amazing Irish dance comeback story, as well as some mental health tips for Irish dancers.

This week, we're talking with world champion Irish dancer and mindset coach Scott Doherty and planning your stress ahead of (and not the day of) competitions. We also discuss his upcoming adult Irish dancers workshop in June!

This week, we're talking with adult Irish dancer Damien Fraser, who is also a military veteran and one of the few who has served as a guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

This week, we're talking with Julie Showalter Marshall, ADCRG, who uses her Instagram to share advice to dancers as an Irish dancing judge, as well as motivational thoughts to keep us dancers going.

This week, we're talking with Irish dance's favorite Instagram personality, Oona Harrigan, about going viral and sending a positive message to dancers of all ages.

This week, we're talking with the fabulous Rhina (REE-nuh) Stone, a draq queen from the UK whose specialty is Irish dance.

This week, we're talking with two moms, Lauren (27) and Erin (36) who managed to dedicate time to train, travel and compete at the CLRG World Irish Dance Championships 2026 over Easter in Chicago.

For the first return episode of the podcast, we're talking with 43-year-old Irish dancer Alison Leonhardt, who dances for the Bracken School in Tucson... and just came back after heart surgery.