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Joanna Hyde & Tadhg Ó Meachair Friday, Nov. 24, Black Forest Community Center
Joanna Hyde & Tadhg Ó Meachair Friday, Nov. 24, Black Forest Community Center. Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 7:00 – 9:30 pm Black Forest Community Center Featuring fiddle, vocals, piano, and accordion, Tadhg and Joanna perform a tasteful mix of Irish and American folk musics, while drawing on influences from around the musical world. Award-winning instrumentalists […]
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Folk Ragout with Ryan Marvel in concert Thursday, November 13
Folk Ragout with Ryan Marvel perform and all ages show at Swallow Hill, Thursday, November 13 at 8:00pm. Expect an evening of collaborative music…celtic flute, amazing guitar and piano with traditional Irish, Scottish, American, French and perhaps seasonal influences. Leslie Anne Harrison, flute. Frederic Pouille, guitar, Ryan Marvel, piano. 303-777- 1003 Tickets: http://swallowhillmusic.org/denver-concerts/folk-ragout-feat-ryan-marvel/nov-13-2014-8-00-pm/ All Ages […]
BOOKKEEPING by Mary McWay Seaman WE ARE NOT OURSELVES by Matthew Thomas
The year is 1951, and young Eileen Tumulty and her father Michael are in Doherty’s Bar in Queens, New York, after her step-dancing class. Eileen finished her homework while her father “held court.” Big Mike Tumulty, born in Ireland, had connections, helped men find work, and served as father-confessor to those just off the boat. […]
GAELIC STORM November 6th – Get Your “Full Irish” ON!
Get Your “Full Irish” Thursday, November 6th, (Showtime: 7:30 PM Doors Open: 6:30 PM) at Gothic Theatre, 3263 South Broadway, Englewood, CO GAELIC STORM will return to the Gothic Theater Thursday November 6th for another unforgettable night of jump-out-of-your-seat clapping, singing, cheering, and laughing with one of the world’s greatest party band! The gang is […]
Ceolta Notes – November Music around Colorado
by Rodger Hara – – – After a fun gig in Omaha at the Dubliner (which the Celtic Tavern’s Noel Hickey patronized while visiting his son who’s in school there), The Indulgers are at Brendan’s Pub, 4th and Broadway in Denver on the 1st at 8 PM, The Exchange Tavern in Westminster on the 8th […]
Scotty Jodoin’s New Shop Sparkles
by Rodger Hara – – – That brilliant Mayoman, Scotty J, proprietor of The Celtic Broker in Denver’s Merchandise Mart, has moved into larger quarters there, his second move in 5 years. After starting in a 200 square foot space that he outgrew after 3 years, he went into a slightly larger space that seemed […]
GAELIC STORM returns to Colorado with #1 “FULL IRISH”
Gaelic Storm’s “FULL IRISH” is #1 on BILLBOARD WORLD ALBUMS CHART!! An excited Gaelic Storm shouted out to Their fans, “Is this real?! Thank you SO MUCH for helping Full Irish become our FIFTH #1 record on the Billboard World Albums chart. GS fans are truly the best there are! THANK YOU!” Gaelic Storm returns […]
Dancing and Piping at Highland Fling
By Rodger Hara – – – On October 18 at 3:00 PM, nearly 40 dancers representing the McCulloch Scottish Dance Academy, EJ Bennett School of Highland Dance, Pamela Patrick Moisey School of Highland Dance, Cristy’s School of Highland Dance, Happy Feet Scottish Dance Academy, Colorado Youth Pipe Band Dancers will present A Highland Fling at […]
Kevin “The Mad Irishman” Tyner to fight on “Bro Show”
By Luke Henderson – – – The Colorado fight community has a new brawler to cheer on this Friday night at the Sparta Combat League MMA event, The Bro Show, at the Denver Merchandise Mart. Kevin Tyner, nicknamed ‘The Mad Irishman’, is roaring out of Canon City by way of Texas to take on Justin […]
October Ceolta Notes
Rodger Hara tracks Colorado bands and performers October events – – – The fourth annual concert of the Scottish Fiddle Club of Colorado is on the 11th at 2 PM at The Kirk (Church) of Bonnie Brae, 1201 South Steele Street in Denver. Free admission and parking. Colcannon is at the Jefferson Unitarian Church in […]
Cody ‘Donnybrook’ Donovan to Retire from MMA- Popular Colorado Fighter to stay active in Martial Arts, Irish Community, and Missionary Work
By Luke Henderson – – – It’s been a tremendous year of change for Cody ‘Donnybrook’ Donovan. He was married, won the Colorado Celtic Club award for best Irish-American fighter, fought for the UFC in Ireland, coached, trained and worked within his community and church. Now, with Donovan’s recent announcement of his retirement from the […]
Aztec Highland Games & Celtic Music Festival hosting the Four Corners Regional Highland Games Championship October 3, 4 & 5
It is time for the Celtic invasion at the Riverside Park, Aztec, New Mexico! New this year is the Aztec Highland Games & Celtic Festival’s first ever Four Corners Regional Highland Games Championship! Watch amazing feats of strength and athleticism as athletes compete in the traditional contests of the Scottish Highlands to win the Championship […]
I do believe its time for a birthday bash! Spanish Peaks Fest Celebrates 10th Year!
www.celticmusicfest.com As those of you who are long time participants of the Spanish Peaks Celtic Festival already know, this festival had its birth after first existing for five years in little, out-of-the-way Gardner as a casual summer afternoon ceilidh. The ceilidhs happened when our harpist daughter Heather and our Scottish musician friends would come across […]