U.S.

North Texas Irish Festival Mar 4-6 Fair Park, Dallas, TX This is a big festival – kind of like Texas itself. If you are in the area you have to go or you’ll never forgive yourself. Musical guests include Altan, Dervish, The Elders, Glengarry Bhoys, Tommy Sands, McPeake, Needfire, Nine-8ths Irish, The Rogues, Seamus Stout, Trinity River Whalers, and many more. Check with the website for more info http://www.ntif.org

Manhattan Irish Fest March 4 & 5 Manhattan IL Musicl guests include James & Wright – Righteous Hillbillies, Ice Wagon FLU, Finbar MacCarthy, Emerald Society Pipe Band and more. Check with the website for more details http://www.manhattanirishfest.com/

8th Annual Eugene Irish Cultural Festival March 11th & 12th Eugene OR Guests include Kevin Burke and Cal Scott, Colleen Raney Band, Cary Novotny and more. Lots of workshops in Music, Art, Dance, Irish Languarge and more. Check their website for all the details http://www.eugeneirishfest.org/

Los Angeles County Irish Faire and Music Festival Mar 11-12 at Fairplex at the Pomona Fairgrounds Pomona CA Musical guests include Emerald Society Pipes and Drum Band, 42nd Highlanders Pipes and Drums and more Check the website for more info http://www.la-irishfair.com/www2/home.html


Irish Fest 2011 March 12-13 Meyer Amphitheater West Palm Beach FL Guests include Seven Nations, Derek Warfield, The Young Wolftones, Screaming Orphans, The Prodigals and many more. Check the website for more info http://www.irishflorida.org/

North Country Goes Green Irish Festival March 10-13 Dulles State Office Bldg, Watertown, NY Musical guests include High Kings, Cluidan, McPeake, Searson and more. Check the website for more details http://www.ncirishfest.com/

SONORA CELTIC FAIRE March 11-13 Motherload Fairgrounds, Sonora, CA Musical guests include Avalon Rising, Black Irish Band, Sligo Rags, 1916, Blaggards, Brother, Wicked Tinkers, Tempest and many more. Check their website for more info http://www.sonoracelticfaire.com/

Shamrockfest March 13 RFK Stadium Washington DC This is a huge festival a celt rock lovers dream come true. Guests include DROPKICK MURPHYS ♣ CARBON LEAF ♣ LOST IN PARIS ♣ LOVE SEED MAMA JUMP ♣ SCYTHIAN ♣ ICE WAGON FLU ♣ HOTSPUR ♣ DR FU ♣ PUBCRAWLERS ♣ NIKI BARR BAND ♣ THE ROVERS ♣ ALONG THOSE LINES ♣ CHARM CITY SAINTS ♣ 3AM ♣ BARE KNUCKLE BOXERS ♣ LETHAL PEANUT ♣ THE MIGHTY REGIS ♣ FIGHT THE LION ♣ THE GOBSHITES ♣ ONCE OKAY TWICE ♣ CEANN ♣ CROWDED STREETS ♣ BARLEYJUICE ♣ THE JUSTIN TRAWICK GROUP ♣ THE SILENT CRITICS ♣ WHITE FORD BRONCO ♣ PRACTICALLY EINSTEIN ♣ KILMAINE SAINTS ♣ THE BLUE LINE ♣ SCOTT’S NEW BAND ♣ JEFE SOLO and more. Prices go up very soon so get your tickets asap. Check their website for more details. http://shamrockfest.com/

Kells Portland Irish Festival March 16-19 Kells Irish Pub 112 SW Second Ave. Portland OR Portion of the proceeds benefits Providence Child Center in Portland Guests include Grafton Street, Tom May, Druids, Brass Knuckles, St James’s Gate, Chancers, Kells Pipers and more. Check their website for more details. http://www.kellsirish.com/portland/festival.php

U.K./IE

West Belfast Celtic Festival Mar 4-6 Belfast NI Fri & Sat Andersontown Leisure Center Sun Emerald Roadhouse Festival is to benefit Suicide Awareness Musical guests include Charlie and the Bhoys, Patricia Ferns – both supported by the Druids, Emerald Roadhouse and more check the Facebook page for more info http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001669254187

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Rochester Tartan Day Celebration 2010 will take place April 10 – 11 at the Rochester Public Market, 280 Union Street North, Rochester, NY This festival is billed as a chance to get back to your Scottish roots but you needn’t be Scottish to enjoy the festivities. The musical entertainment will include some of our favorites: The Glengarry Bhoys!, Cluidan, Tullamore with the RSCD, BCW TRIO along with performances by the Rochester Scottish Pipes & Drums and the Gates Keystone Police Pipes & Drums and the debut of The Scottish Heritage Society’s Own Pipes & Drums. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased through the Scottish Heritage Society or Ticketmaster For directions and other info please check the festival website at http://www.rochestertartanday.com/

Southern Illinois Irish Festiva is April 23-25 at Turley Park in Carbondale IL One of my favorite bands, Mother Grove, will be performing Friday night. as will Patsy O’Brien. The Willis Clan is back by popular demand and will perform Saturday night. For directions and ticket info please check the festival website: http://silirishfest.org/

Sedalia Celtic Festival will be held April 24 at the Sedalia Center located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Bedford County, Virginia. Enter the Haggis will be appearing here at 10 AM when the gates open so get there early. I am sure going to try to get to this one. Remember to bring non perishable food or some dry goods to turn in at their merchandise table. It will be donated to a local food pantry or shelter as part of the Enter the Haggis Community Initiative. Also appearing at the festival will be Robin Rich a Celtic folk singer from Lynchburg, VA. Admission is $10. Children under 12 are free. For more info please check their website at http://www.sedaliacelticfestival.com/

We will be spotlighting more festivals this month so you can make your plans to attend. Festivals are a great way to spend your day immersed in Celtic traditions, eating great food, hearing great music and having a taste or two of great Irish beer and whiskey. The designated driver rule should apply so many, many festivals can be enjoyed by all.

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The first is the 18th ANNUAL GREATER PHILADELPHIA MID-WINTER SCOTTISH & IRISH MUSIC FESTIVAL & FAIR that takes place this weekend, February 12-14, in King of Prussia, PA. This is a not to be missed event. Don’t let the horrible weather deter you. This is one of the best festivals in the country. I wish I could attend. Many of my favorite bands will be there including Cliudan, a Syracuse band we featured in a post just yesterday, Seven Nations, Brother, Rathkeltair, Paddy’s Well, Jamison, The Brigadoons, Ashley McCloud, Screaming Orphans, Searson, Albannach, The Tarten Terrors and many others, as well as many fiddle and pipe bands and several dance troops. This one has something for everyone. It is inside at the Valley Forge Convention Center. Admission is $25 per day (for all this entertainment!) and parking is free. What better way to get over cabin fever than to come to this great event? For more info check their website http://www.eohebrides.com/events/index.cfm?EventID=383

The other festival is Celtic Fest Chicago which will be at Millennium Park. They have just confirmed that The Saw Doctors will be appearing in a free concert at Petrillo Music Shell on May 8th. Yes The Saw Doctors and yes FREE. What are you waiting for? More info can be found at the festival website http://www.celticfestchicago.us/ I can’t attend this one either but there will be one lucky Fanrealm staffer in attendance so we should get a report on the show to share. We are still waiting for more info on the rest of The Saw Doctors’ US tour.

In other news I got a couple on inquires from bands so I thought I would clarify here for everyone. If we have featured your band in a spotlight it means we like you and would love to cover you more thoroughly. We would be happy to post band bios, tour info and to review cds. Click the contact us button and I can answer any other questions you may have and give you the snail mail address for cds or any other hard copy you may want to send. If we haven’t featured you, feel free to contact us anyway. We may just not have gotten to you yet. We are trying to showcase as many bands as we can so fans can discover them. It’s sometimes hard for bands to get exposure and it takes a lot of research for people to hunt bands down at myspace or music sites. We want to make it easy for bands and fans to find each other.

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