May 2016 Ceolta Notes

By Rodger Hara

“once” returns to Denver in performances from May 24^th -29^th at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Performing Arts Complex.  Live music and cocktail included with tickets for the 26^th performance and an accessible presentation at the matinee show at 2 PM on the 28^th with American Sign Language, Open Captioning and Audio Description available.  Tickets begin at $30.  www.denvercenter.org  or call 800.641.1222

Avourneen performs for the crowd at Katie Mullen’s on the 16^th Street Mall in downtown Denver on the 6^th, 13^th and 27^th at 9 PM^, at Jack Quinn’s in Colorado Springs at 8 PM on the 7^th, at the Alamo Drafthouse in Littleton at 6 PM before a screening of the film “once” and continuing the theme plays at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at 6:30 PM on the 26^th before the live performance of “once”.  Adam Goldstein, lead singer and guitarist, does his usual Saturday late-night gigs at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret on the 14^th, 21^st and 28^th.

Fresh from the stage of the Colorado Tartan Day Festival, Delilah’s Revenge returns to Longmont for a show on the 20^th at the Dickens Opera House. Doors open at 7 PM.

Skean Dubh is at The Laughing Goat on Pearl St. just off the Mall in Boulder on the 7^th from 9:30-11:30 PM, at the Jamestown Mercantile on the 14^th at 6 PM and on stage for the Beltainia Festival (http://www.beltania.org/) at the La Foret Conference and Retreat Center in the Black Forest on the 21^st at 3 PM.

Brian Clancy charms the assembled multitude at Jack Quinn’s in downtown Colorado Springs on Thursdays at 7:30 PM – the 5^th, 12^th, 19^th and 26^th and on the 7^th and 21^st at The Irish Snug, on East Colfax in Denver, Saturdays at 8:30 PM.

Mountain Road Ceili Band plays on the patio at The Margarita in Colorado Springs on the 20th from 6:30-9 PM as they have for the last 20 years.

Potcheen closes out the month at the Whitewater Bar and Grill in Canon City on the 28^th at 9 PM.