Posts Tagged ‘ Portland OR ’

Saturday, July 17th 2010, marked the 58th Annual Portland Highland Games at Mt. Hood Community College. The first Oregon Scottish Games were held in Portland in 1952 at Jantzen Beach. The Portland Highland Games Association (PHGA) was established in 1960 and grew from there. In 1988, The Games moved to Mt. Hood Community College...

There are a lot of great festivals in the US in July. Here is a list of some of the best ones. If you know of one I missed please let me know. The festival must have musical entertainment for us to list it. All of these have great line-ups. Most include fine pipe...

The presale for these tickets ends at 5 PM pacific time. The link to purchase the tickets is http://www.rosequarter.com/EventDetail/tabid/146/rqeventid/664/Default.aspx The code word is rqceltic and they are selling good tickets. Like Unlike If you found this post by way of a search engine, please click on the word HOME in the upper left hand...

I personally disagree with a certain mouse. To me, the happiest place on earth is Kells Pub in Portland OR. This is especially true this month when the St Patrick’s Day Festival goes into full swing. The festival runs for 5 days and is a charity event. The perfect chance to have a wonderful...

By SlainteSteve Depending on where you live, there may or may not be much going on in the way of Celtic music or other related activities. Some places are hotter than others. Here in our area (the Pacific Northwest), things got a whole lot better for the local Celtic scene around February of ’09,...

On a recent trip to Portland, OR the intrepid Fanrealm staff was invited to take a tour of CDBaby, the center of the Universe in the Indie Music world. From the minute we walked in the door we were impressed with the atmosphere.  That same fun feeling that goes into their famous emails was...

Contemporary & traditional Irish music from Kells live artists and most recorded live at Kells – Portland. All proceeds from the sale of this CD benefit Providence Child Center, a special care center for disabled children and their families. CD available in Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub and also at their online store OK,...

On our recent trip to Portland, Biddy McGraw’s was recommended to us by the good folks at cdbaby. This is a great pub located at 6000 NE Glisan in Portland. One of our group, who had recently returned from Ireland, said she felt like she was back there when walking into Biddy’s. There is...

One of the “must see” sites for any visitor to Portland, Oregon, (especially those with Irish roots) is the Irish Famine Memorial. It is dedicated to the memory of those Irish who died during the disastrous Great Irish Potato Famine between 1845 and 1851. The tragic famine, caused by the loss of potato crops...

Kells website reads “Our goal is to provide our guests with the best experience, from beginning to end. Excellent service, delicious food, outstanding atmosphere and of course live Irish music seven nights a week.” On my two visits last weekend, I found these comments to be right on the mark. Being in Kells feels...

While visiting Kells, a wonderful Irish Pub in Portland, Oregon, I was privileged enough to get to see Grafton Street perform.  What a treat! Between the magic of the fiddle, the pounding of the Bodhran, the distinct tones of the harmonica and the guitar, and the wonderful vocal harmonies, Grafton Street had the audience...

Written by Stacey Parker Celtic Thunder rolled its way into Portland, and the Theater of the Clouds, and so did I. My friends and I went to the show, knowing what to expect, but we were looking for the unexpected too. The weather forecast given at the beginning of the show always makes me...