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Celtic Events/Gigs List
Send (and receive) your Colorado/Region Gigs to [email protected] Hello All, Thanks to all for who sent in gig dates, we will be posting more events on our website. Enjoy your St. Patrick’s Day weekend. And remember it’s “Paddy’s Day” not “Patty’s Day” ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Thanks to All who went to out to see Kevin Burke, […]
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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 […]

Colorado International Tattoo comes to Broadmoor World Arena
On September 27, a new spectacular show featuring hundreds of local, national, and international performers, will be produced and held at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs. The show will draw thousands of spectators along with military, civilian, and first responder performers to the city. A “Tattoo” in this case has little to do […]

September 2014 Festivals Around the Rockies
by Rodger Hara – – – Celtic Harvest Festival Edgewater, September 20-21 at Citizens Park, Edgewater, CO W/Colcannon, The Indulgers, Celtic Friends, the commoners, Rare Ould Times, Stubby Shillelaghs, Denver and District Pipe Band and Highland Dancers, Wick School of Irish Dance, Colorado Welsh Society, Ren Scots, Dogs of the British Isles, HawkQuest, Airbound Bungee […]