Kolacny Music & The Colorado Celtic Harp Society present Chris Newman & Máire Ní Chathasaigh Celtic Harp and Guitar in Concert Brilliant, innovative harping and guitar-playing of astonishing virtuosity and versatility! Friday, October 7th – 7:30pm Unity Spiritual Center Denver 3021 South University Blvd./ Denver, CO 80210 Tickets at the Door – Adult $15 / […]

Retreat to Spanish Peaks September 22-25: Annual Celtic Gathering A-Buzz with Return of Fest Favorites and First Time Visits by World Renown High Kings and Altan!  (from The Celtic Connection newspaper September 2016)     You can feel it in the air –autumn serenity, when Indian Paint Brush colored days turn into star spangled nights.  […]

September 2016 Ceolta Notes By Rodger Hara The Wicked Sheehogues Celtic Band plays at Clancy’s Irish Pub in Wheat Ridge on the 3rd from 5 – 8 PM   Colcannon is in concert at Congregation Nevei Kodesh, 1925 Glenwood Drive in Boulder on the 10th at 7:30 PM then closes out the Celtic Harvest Festival […]

The Emporium Building Sold, Contents on Sale (September 2016 Celtic Connection newspaper, Denver)   After a decade and a half as the iconic Colorado mountain town mining antique/Irish & Celtic goods shop in Idaho Springs, the owners of the Emporium are retiring and have sold the building.  Owner Mary Ann Dalpes said that closing the […]

Longs Peak Celebrates 40th Anniversary   Longs Peak Scottish-Irish Highland Festival will host their 40th annual event September 8-11 in Estes Park, CO.  The festival includes Scottish athletics, Jousting, Highland Dance, Irish Dance, Strongman Compeition, Solo and Pipe Band Competitions, and music including Seamus Kennedy, Ed Miller, Albannach, Highland Way, Tannahill Weavers, Rogues, Enter the […]

Celts Rise!  The 12th Annual Spanish Peaks International Celtic Music Festival is Up and Running!   The 2016 Spanish Peaks Celtic Fest schedule is set, and with the likes of Altan, High Kings, and The Outside Track debuting  and a bunch of returning veteran performers and instructors (Chris Newman and Maire Ni Chathasaigh, Robbie O’connell, […]

August 2016 Ceolta Notes  (From 2016 August Celtic Connection newspaper) By Rodger Hara   Michael “Cal” Callaghan was a big hit at last year’s Long’s Peak Scottish-Irish Highland Festival with his band, Cal Music.  This year he’s getting a head start on the Festival with a series of solo gigs in Colorado that began in […]

Colorado Scottish Festival, Aug. 5-7, Free, Fun in Snowmass Village Free!  Yes, free admission.   Free parking.   Free shuttles.  Free Saturday night concert.  It’s enough to warm a thrifty Scotsman’s heart!  Get out of the heat and come on up to Snowmass Village on August 5-7, 2016, and join the fun as the Colorado Scottish Festival […]

Denver Gaels:  20 Years of Memories and Team Timeline   (Celtic Connection, Denver, July 2016)   Shay Dunne, Founding Member, Former Chairman, Dual Player — Nallen’s Pub on California St. Denver Colorado, 1996, In attendance, Martin Concannon, Martin Canavan, Shay Dunne, the conversation went something like this: “lads we’re always playing Gaelic football after soccer […]

Home Page photo: (L-R) Shay Dunne, Denver Gaels Vice Chairman; Kevin Fitzgerald, Regional Manager Pernod Ricard; Kyle Shane, Denver Gaels Chairperson) Denver Gaels Celebrate 20th Anniversary with New Look: Authentic Team Jersey Available Now for Fans Photo insert (L-R) Darragh  O’Neill,  Kevin Stanton, Declan Lowry, Kevin Doyle (Colorado Rapids), Shay Dunne The Denver Gaels are […]

The Colorado Irish Festival July 8-10 Held in Clement Park in Littleton, with a backdrop of the Rocky Mountain, the Colorado Irish Festival kicks of its 21st year of celebration.   The Screaming Orphans (pictured above), The Elders, High Kings and more will be providing music on stage along with bagpipes, Gaelic sports and Irish step […]

The Hydes – Green and Blue CD Review by Rodger Hara   Think of the wedding tradition of “Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue” and apply it to the debut disc of brother and sister duo Iain and Joanna Hyde and you’ve got a winner. Iain, mild-mannered State of Colorado bureaucrat by […]