Barry Stapleton is the artistic director for Milwaukee Irish Fest. Milwaukee Irish Fest hires 100 artists who perform over a 4-day weekend in August. Barry, along with an entertainment committee, oversees all the legal aspects, production, scheduling and logistics at the festival. Barry is also the director of the Ward Irish Music Archives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Through the archives he has published three CDs, the latest being “Francis O’Neill Cylinders: 32 recordings of Irish Traditional Music in America circa 1904.” Barry has given programs at many conferences in the U.S. and in Ireland. He has organized conferences on Bing Crosby, Irish Music and Celtic Festivals. In 2007 Barry was the local program chair and host for the 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections, ARSC, conference in Milwaukee. He has presented at the Library of Congress, Folk Alliance, Hofstra University and the Na Piobairi Uilleann, Pipers Club, Dublin, Ireland. Barry has presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, ACIS national and regional conferences.