July 2015 Ceolta Notes And Festival Info by Rodger Hara (from July 2015 Celtic Connection newspaper) The lovely, talented and dependable Brian Clancy is at Jack Quinn’s in downtown Colorado Springs on Thursdays at 7:30 PM on the 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd and on Saturdays – the 11th, 18th and 25th at The Irish […]

Something for All Ages this weekend as Irish, Scots & Celtic family and friends gather in Colorado Springs at the http://pikespeakcelticfestival.com/ More: Like spring time to summer, 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 […]

l! Come and enjoy this FREE event featuring the Young Dubliners, Searson, Swagger and vendors, food, pipers, clans and amazing live entertainment! June 12th & 13th at the Cheyenne Depot Plaza

CELTIC WOMAN – 10th Anniversary World Tour! Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO Fri, Jun 12, 2015 07:30 PM Global music sensation, Celtic Woman, return to Red Rocks Amphitheatre with their 10th Anniversary Celebration Tour. The enchanting musical experience features Celtic Woman performing a treasure chest of traditional Irish standards, classical favorites and contemporary pop songs, […]

June 2015 Ceolta Notes By Rodger Hara Chancer’s Hooley plays at the Capitol Hill People’s Fair in Denver’s Civic Center Park on the 7th at 5:15 PM and on the 8th at the Platte River Saloon from 7 – 9 PM. Gobs O’Phun is on the Cheyenne Celtic Festival on the 13th. Colcannon performs with […]

IRISH NETWORK COLORADO TO HOST VISIT FROM NEW IRISH CONSUL GENERAL Irish Network Colorado (INCO) and the Celtic Connection are hosting a meet and greet reception in honor of our new Irish consul general on Wednesday, May 20 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Katie Mullen’s Irish Restaurant at 1550 Court Place in Denver. Consul […]

Traditional Irish Music Masters Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill on Tour in May “Hayes and Cahill work off each other like two jazz masters, exploring the tunes, spinning medleys that expand and contract with intensity. “Our allegiance is to the spirit of the moment,” says Hayes, “Our primary wish is that the musical experience be […]

By Rodger Hara An influential figure in the history of Irish rock, an award-winning off-Broadway musical, the Arvada Center and Colorado’s multi-talented band Colcannon intersect in a Celtic-harmonic convergence with the Regional Premiere of the play A Man of No Importance this month. Horslips was one of the first Irish bands to combine traditional songs […]

May 2015 Ceolta Notes – by Rodger Hara (from May 2015 Celtic Connection newspaper) (Photo: The Indulgers) Folk Ragout and special guest Katie Henderson will perform Irish tunes, French songs, and Old-Time fiddle, Thursday May 14th, 7:30PM at Swallow Hill , 303-777-1003. The Celtic folk/rock legends The Waterboys open the Arvada Center’s Summer Stage Concert […]

Folk Ragoût and special guest fiddler Katie Henderson will perform Irish tunes, French songs, and Old-Time fiddle, Thursday May 14th,2015 7:30PM at Swallow Hill, Denver CO , 303-777-1003. On Saturday, May 30th, 7:30pm Folk Ragoût will be in concert with Lights Along the Shore at Snowy Range Evangelical Free Church 2552 North 15th Street, Laramie, […]

Cúrsa Tumoideachais sa Ghaeilge – Irish Language Immersion Course Butte, Montana July 18 – 25, 2015 Immersion Camps: The first immersion camps in Irish language and culture were organized in the Gaeltachtaí (Irish-speaking districts) of Ireland in 1901 and quickly became a corner-stone of the movement to preserve Ireland’s ancient Gaelic culture. It was here […]

A grass-roots effort by individuals interested in keeping alive Scottish and Celtic heritages lead to the creation of the Colorado Tartan Day in 1996 by the Colorado General Assembly. Since the official State recognition, committed volunteers spend each year planning and conducting various fund raisers to support Colorado Tartan Day with such fund raisers as […]