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SPANISH PEAKS CELTIC FEST SEPTEMBER 21-24 The GOTHARD SISTERS – FREE – 6th STREET HOOLEY
SPANISH PEAKS CELTIC FEST SEPTEMBER 21-24 The GOTHARD SISTERS – FREE – 6th STREET HOOLEY Friday September 22, 5:00pm – 6:00pm MINER’S PLAZA 6 th ST, WALSENBURG Although The Gothard Sisters Sunday (Sept 24) concert at La Veta Mercantile is Sold Out, you can see, hear, and dance with this awesome group throughout the Fest. […]
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Dennis Gallagher, Irish Gentleman and Scholar and Guardian of Denver”s History and Dollars
When the Democratic National Convention takes place in Denver August 25-28, the city will be taking advantage of approximately $50 million provided by the federal government to cover security costs for the event. One man will be heading up the cause to ensure that only those federal funds will be used for convention security”not the […]
Good Hotel Guide Makes for Great UK Holidays
by Katie Weber The Good Hotel Guide (GHG) has been my best source for finding unique, small hotels, inns and B&B”s in Ireland, and Great Britain for many years. I first used it during my honeymoon in the early 1990″s and found a dramatic difference in the quality and overall experience between its hotels and those […]
Rocky Mountain Profile: Kerreen “Kacey” O”Connor
In July the Colorado Irish Festival enjoyed a financial, cultural, and musical success. Featuring world class entertainers like Gaelic Storm, Solas, The Elders and Cathie Ryan this year”s festival drew 32,000 visitors or a 50% increase over last year. In its 14th year the Co President Kacey O”Connor took no bows. Instead, as usual, she […]
True Irish Legend
Ronnie Drew Remembered
Irish folk legend Ronnie Drew – the former frontman of ballad group The Dubliners – has been given an old-fashioned Irish wake by his family. The gravel-voiced singer, who passed away on 16th August, was waked in his Greystones, Co Wicklow home, by hundreds of fans, friends, family members and neighbours before his funeral in […]
Jack and Barbara”s “Spanish Peaks” Hooley:
From Cabin Ceilidh to County-Wide Celtic Fest
(Published in September 08 Celtic Connection) World-Class musicians from around the U.S. and abroad will travel to Huerfano County in south central Colorado for the Spanish Peaks International Celtic Music Festival September 25 -28. They will give concerts, offer music lessons, talk on the music traditions, and partake in impromptu music sessions along the way. The […]
Beijing Bound – Denver”s Matt Updike Earns Spot on 2008 US Paralympic Cycling Team!
Denver resident Matt Updike recently qualified to compete in the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, September 6-17, as a member of the US Paralympic Cycling Team. While he”s been on the US Team for several years it”s his first time qualifying for a Paralympic Games. Although making the team was a tremendous accomplishment in itself, […]
Obama Irish? So Says the Song…
Irish Band Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys have an internet hit on “YouTube” in the works with their song celebrating Barack Obama’s Irish ancestry, “There’s No One as Irish As Barack O’Bama”. The band from Limerick, Ireland, made up of brothers Ger, Brian, and Donnacha Corrigan wrote the song after learning about a study […]
New Irish-American Partnership for Biggest Building Blitz in South Africa Global Partnership Brings Over 2000 Irish and American Volunteers Together to Replace Shacks with New Homes in South African Township
The groundbreaking partnership aims to bring over 2000 volunteers from the”U.S.”and”Ireland”to the Khayelitsha township, located approximately 25 miles outside”Cape Town. Meaning Xhosa for “our new home,” Khayelitsha is one of the youngest and biggest townships in the”Cape”Flats area. The Blitz will take place at the overcrowded Site C, the oldest part of the township with […]
What”s In a Name? Ken Hannon Larson Will Show You At the 2008 Colorado Irish Festival”s Irish Surnames (Sloinnte Gael) Exhibit
As a school boy he listened as his history teacher talked for two days about the Algonkin Indian tribe of Canada who were constantly at war with the Iroquois Nation of upstate New York. “On the second day I asked, “Can you tell me why these two were not getting along?” and his answer to […]
Update to Rosemary Nelson Murder Inquiry
Fearing for her safety and the safety of her family, Nelson went to the RUC looking for protection. Her cries for help were denied. Nelson then went to many people with reports of threats against her life and her subsequent requests for protection ” including Burke with whom she met in Lurgan at a March […]
ROCKIN’ OUT MS MAY 2008
Why would an Irish musician living in the Netherlands contact a blues-rock musician in Colorado? Mark Gilligan contacted someone he had never heard about before as he started to search for other musicians that were suffering from the same disease that he was, MS, multiple sclerosis. Mark has performed most of his life, including with Noel […]
Denver Attorney Tom Burke Summoned to Testify in Rosemary Nelson Murder Inquiry in Belfast
Rosemary Nelson, mother of 3 young children, drove from her home in LurgenLurgan, a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, on March 15, 1999. A hundred yards from her home and down the street from her children”s school, a bomb that had been placed under her car detonated. Friends and family rushed to the wreckage […]