The Yellow Bird Dancers from Arizona fascinated audiences in the Pavilion, Dun Laoghaire, with their songs, dances and stories of the American Indian.

Ken Duncan sang, drummed and compered the show, performed by his wife Doreen and four sons, dressed in colourful fringed costumes with feathers and animal skins.

The highlight was Tony Duncan's incredible Hoop Dance. As he danced, he revolved up to 25 hoops like hula hoops around his limbs to form shapes of snakes, turtles, butterflies, flowers and even a cowboy and his horse. He also played solos on the native flute, traditionally used in courting, as well as performing the War Dance, used in training boys as young as eight to be warriors. The Apache Rainbow Dance, a thanksgiving for rain, was performed with rainbow headdress by Doreen Duncan, as was the Jingle Dress Dance, first performed so the sound would prove to the Spirit that the dance had continued all night, in return for curing a sick daughter. Three of the boys beat beautiful feathered wings and circled majestically in the Eagle Dance and two performed the Grass Dance, stamping down the long grass to make walking easier for their elders. Carl Duncan performed the Traditional Sneak-Up Dance, as a scout sent ahead of the tribe, and Apache Warrior Dance, with bow and arrow.

In the Cradle Ceremony, the Medicine Man and the Baby's Mother presented the baby to the four points of the compass, with a prayer for each stage of its life, while the Two-Step Dance was a simple chain dance with audience participation.

Recorded birdsong and music with male and female voices augmented the tales, such as the roles played by coyote, bobcat and weasel in the creation myth, or the reason dogs sniff each other's tails.