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 […]

July 2016 Ceolta Notes And Festival Info (Celtic Connection, Denver, July 2016) by Rodger Hara (photo: Avourneen) The 18th Annual Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp starts on the 21st and runs through the 24th.  Instruction and performances will include Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, Bluegrass and old time fiddling plus guitar, banjo, ukelele, piano, flute, tin whistle, […]

Calling All Pipers -Win A Free Pass to the Spanish Peaks Piping Retreat! Piping Retreat Offered at 2016 Spanish Peaks Celtic Fest and Retreat   (photo: Jerry O’Sullivan, world renowned uilleann piper will return to the Spanish Peaks Celtic fest/retreat this year.  Photo by Bob Kennemer)   The Spanish Peaks Piping Retreat, in partnership with […]

The New Pikes Peak Celtic Fest Growing Strong By Erin   The Pikes Peak Celtic Festival blossomed from an old tradition in Colorado Springs.  1999 marked the last year of the Pikes Peak Highland Games.  In 2013, the festival was brought back with new vigor under the new name-Pikes Peak Celtic Festival and has taken […]

June 2016 Ceolta Notes by Rodger Hara (photo: The Young Dubliners) Emmett Cahill, a member of Celtic Thunder, performs at the Washington Park United Church of Christ, 400 S. Williams Street in South Denver on the 21st.  Tickets are $35 for General Admission and $45.00 for Admission plus Meet and Greet. Get tickets at www.emmetcahill.com/tour-dates   Angus Mohr […]

The University of Colorado Boulder hurling team will host the 2016 National College Gaelic Athletic Association hurling championships this Saturday and Sunday, May 28-29, at Kittredge Fields on the CU campus. The tournament features six schools, including the host Buffaloes, as well as the University of California Berkley, University of Connecticut, University of Pittsburgh, Purdue […]