Colorado Tartan Day Festival April 8-9, (Open at 9a. Close 5p Sat, 4p Sun)at the Boulder County Fairgrounds. This free event will have plenty of vendors, Angus Mohr, Gobs O’Phun, more music, clans and Renaissance Scots Living History for your fun and enjoyment.

SKERRYVORE – The Tempus Tour 2023
8 Lads from Scotland…
In concert, Wednesday, April 12, 7:30pm. Doors at 6:30pm
At Soiled Dove Underground 7401 E. 1st Ave Denver, CO 80230
$25 advance reserved seats/ tables available at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/skerryvore-tickets-513262340477
or www.soileddove.com or call 303-830-9214.
(Free parking. Food and drink available upstairs at the Tavern at Lowry prior to show)
All Ages show (Under 21 with Parent or Legal Guardian).
Take two brothers, Daniel (Accordion) and Martin Gillespie (pipes, whistles and accordion), steeped in the Scottish west coast ceilidh tradition on the Isle of Tiree, and add in friends Fraser West (drums) and Alec Dalglish (guitar and vocals), with a background in brass bands, wind bands, jazz bands, and with blues, folk and country influences, and you have the 2005, embryonic Skerryvore. Fast forward 10 years, add Craig Espie (fiddle) and Jodie Bremaneson (bass), bring in your album producer Alan Scobie on Keyboards and mix in the Glasgow music scene – from University Applied Music courses and Traditional Music courses at the Royal Conservatoire to sell out gigs at O2 ABC – and you have a band that has already won Scottish Traditional music’s ‘Live Act of the Year’ in 2011 – they were to win it again in 2016 – and who, rightly, celebrated their decade by launching their own 6000 capacity festival.
By the time the 2019 version of that festival – now christened ‘Oban Live’ – comes around, that evolutionary development will have added BBC young traditional musician of the year finalist Scott Wood (pipes and whistles), produced ‘EVO,’ their latest album, and the curtain will have fallen on their EVO world tour which took their high energy, musically expansive set not just throughout UK and Europe, but also to USA, Canada and Australia. Skerryvore represent the best in contemporary Scottish traditional music, with a growing fanbase worldwide including Denver, Colorado. Skerryvore is celebrating the release of their new album Tempus which will be available at their concert.
The Pipes (drums, guitars, fiddles, accordions, whistles) are calling!

Rodger Hara, one of the DJs of Seolta Gael on KGNU Radio every Wednesday night 7-8pm ( 88.5 FM Boulder, 1390 AM Denver, www.kgnu.org streaming live) interviewed Alec form Skerryvore last week prior to the bands April 12 concert at The Soiled Dove in Denver. Listen at this link:
https://aa.kgnu.net/audioarchives/SeoltaGael/2023/SeoltaGael_2023-04-05.mp3?x-kgnu=after-fm-download

Denver Gaels will be recruiting Saturday April 8, 10A-2P Ralston Rec Area 64th & Simms, Arvada
Mens, womens. and youth teams. No Experience Necessary!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 2023 AT 6 PM Free Event -Rocky MTN PBS presents a Prescreening and Panel Discussion: The Lost Irish Miners of Leadville
Old Church of Leadville, Northwest corner of 8th and Harrison

Colorado Dulcimer festival this May 5 and 6, at St James Presbyterian Church in Littleton
(workshops and concerts https://coloradodulcimerfestival.com )

Scottish Fiddle Club of Colorado’s Spring Concert!
Saturday, May 13, 2pm, St. Philip Lutheran Church 7531 South Kendall Blvd., Littleton, CO 80128
COST: FREE Come enjoy the fiddle, dance and vocal music of Scotland, Ireland and America performed by some of the best professional, amateur and student fiddlers in Colorado. www.scotsfiddle.org www.facebook.com/ScotsfiddleColorado/ Questions to [email protected] or 303-234-0469.

Elders at Soiled Dove – May 26 8pm
Gaelic Storm : Aggie Theater in Fort Collins, Thursday June 22 , 8pm, https://www.axs.com/events/476780/gaelic-storm-tickets
Boulder Theater, Boulder, Friday June 23
Whittle the Wood Rendezvous , Craig, CO, Saturday June 24

John Doyle, The Byrne Brothers, Winifred Horan, Gothard Sisters, Bowtides and more will be teaching and performing at the Spanish Peaks Celtic Festivals September 21-24, 2023. Look for more information soon at www.celticmusicfest.com

All the best, Pat [email protected] www.CelticConnection.com https://www.facebook.com/celtic.rockies