Deireadh Seachtaine Gaeltachta 2015 An Irish Language Immersion Weekend will take place at the United Irish Cultural Center the weekend of September 25–27, presenting four levels of intensive tutorials focusing on spoken language and increasing fluency. Practice Irish over breakfast, lunch, and dinner - with meals and snacks provided. Bring…
Mr. Bloom’s Potato It’s well known that James Joyce was meticulous in researching the details for the recreation of his beloved Dublin in Ulysses, but even the great writers sometimes get it wrong. Mr. Bloom’s Potato is a light-hearted look at a some of Joyce’s mistakes and a few hidden details that…
Bell Stage Main Dining Room: Melanie O’Reilly Jazz Quartet " The Music of Anita O’Day" Fresh from her highly successful performance of Jazz on a Summer's Day: A Tribute to Anita O Day, at Dublin's Pavilion Theatre, award-winning Jazz vocalist, Melanie O'Reilly returns to Angelicas to celebrate this legendary hip…
Jazz on a Summer's Day: A Tribute to Anita O Day Melanie O'Reilly & Trio with Frank Martin -piano, Fred Randolph -bass, Jack Dorsey -drums “Sultry, soulful” – “the ideal soundtrack to a hot summer night”. (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) Fresh from her highly successful performance of Jazz on a Summer's…
The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay Presents Galician multi-instrumentalist Carlos Núñez packs superstar energy, virtuosity, imagination, daring, and charisma into his concerts around the world. $20 adv./$22 door $8 at door to Members of The Celtic Society by way of $2 rebate PRESENTED BY THE CELTIC SOCIETY OF THE…
Dàimh hails from the Scottish Highlands, known in Gaelic as A' Ghàidhealtachd, the Land of the Gaels, and their music is rich in Gaelic tradition. The band features Angus MacKenzie on pipes and whistle, Gabe McVarish on fiddle, Griogair Labhruidh on vocals, pipes, and other instruments, Murdo Cameron on mandola,…
Come join the Hanneke Cassel Band for an evening of Scottish-American fiddle music. "Exuberant and rhythmic, somehow both wild and innocent, delivered with captivating melodic clarity and an irresistible playfulness," says the Boston Globe about Hanneke Cassel's playing. Such charismatic fiddling has brought the native Oregonian many honors and awards. …
Scottish Gaelic Supergroup' Dàimh (pronounced “Dive”) PRESENTED BY THE CELTIC SOCIETY OF THE MONTEREY BAY $18 adv./$20 door seated <21 w/parent $16 at door to Members of The Celtic Society by way of $2 rebate “One of the most exhilarating bands on the Celtic Map” Irish Times Magazine Taking their…
Carlos Núñez From Galicia, the Celtic region of northwest Spain, Carlos Núñez is widely hailed as the leading player of the gaita (Galician bagpipes) as well as an outstanding performer on the flute and whistle. Coming to international prominence in the 1990's when he was 'adopted' by The Chieftains, his…
Carlos Nunez, Sharon Shannon, Cassie & Maggie MacDonald, Dàimh, and many more! Grass Valley, CA. Festival includes eleven performance areas including five musical and six demonstration stages and weekend-long Celtic music, magic, dance and songwriting workshops. Visit website
*the official unofficial Hardly Strictly After Party* Featuring: The Sweetwater Stringband + The Mountain Men $10-$15 sliding scale / 21+
Filoli will hold its New Volunteer Recruitment at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 3, 2015 at Filoli. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the many, varied ways to volunteer at Filoli on Committees such as, House and Garden Self-Guided Docents, Weekend Tour Docents, Member Services, Visitor Services, Public…
Irish Language Classes • October 3 An Irish language 8-week class begins on Saturday, October 3rd at the Irish Cultural Center with teacher Imelda White. There will be a beginners class from 10.30 am to noon and an intermediate/advanced class from noon to 1.30 pm. The cost of the 8-week class is…
Flogging Molly Founded in Los Angeles in 1997, Flogging Molly infuses punk rock with Celtic instruments – violin, mandolin and the accordion – and they merge blues progressions with grinding guitars and traditional Irish music, the music of vocalist/guitarist Dave King’s youth. “We’re not a traditional band,” explains Dublin-born King.…
Michael Murphy has a Ceili on Saturday, October 3rd from 7 pm to 10 pm at Lily Mac's Pub and Restaurant, 187 South Murphy Avenue (between Washington & Evelyn) in Sunnyvale (upstairs). Birds in the Bush will be playing. Admission - $10. Contact Michael Murphy at 1-415-999-6062.
LFC San Francisco in association with Reds in America is proud to welcome Ronnie Whelan to San Francisco on October 3rd. With 493 appearances for the club, during which time he racked up six league titles, three FA Cups, three League Cups, and a European Cup, Ronnie is a true…
The Rugby World Cup (website) 2015 is the eighth Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial rugby union world championship. The tournament is hosted by England from 18 September to 31 October. Twickenham Stadium in London will host the final. You can watch the games at a Bay Area bar near you, and send your support to the Irish…
Sunday, October 4, 2015 4:30 - 6:00PM at Lily Mac's Irish Restaurant and Pub, 187 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Live music provided by Banish the Dogs. Come learn and dance such traditional Irish Ceili dances as the Haymaker's Jig and the Waves of Tory. Fun for the whole…
Founded in Los Angeles in 1997, Flogging Molly infuses punk rock with Celtic instruments – violin, mandolin and the accordion – and they merge blues progressions with grinding guitars and traditional Irish music, the music of vocalist/guitarist Dave King’s youth. “We’re not a traditional band,” explains Dublin-born King. “We are…
Michael Parker on Seamus Heaney • October 6 "Facing the Music: Public Imperatives in Seamus Heaney's Late Poetry" A talk and presentation by Michael Parker, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire. Parker is wide-ranging scholar of modern and contemporary literature, who is completing a major…
Readings of Emma Donoghue's Work • Oct 8, 18 Word for Word Performing Arts Company is an ensemble whose mission is to tell great stories with elegant theatricality, staging performances of classic and contemporary fiction. On October 8, Word for Word presents “Night Vision” by Emma Donoghue. The first, is…
Former MLB player, and singer-musician-storyteller Tim Flannery and his band of fighting poets, the Lunatic Fringe, perform a benefit concert at the Plough and Stars October 10 in support of the Love Harder Project an initiative that uses music to raise awareness and funds to assist victims of violence. Lunatic Fringe's music…
The Rugby World Cup (website) 2015 is the eighth Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial rugby union world championship. The tournament is hosted by England from 18 September to 31 October. Twickenham Stadium in London will host the final. You can watch the games at a Bay Area bar near you, and send your support to the Irish…
ICCC Patrick J. Dowling Library located at the United Irish Cultural Center and Congregation Beth Israel Judea are teaming up to host an exciting cross cultural event: two screenings of "Shalom Ireland." The screenings will be followed by a panel discussion with the Director, Valerie Lapin Ganley, and representatives from…
October 12 • From Hardback to Hollywood: The Expansive Career of Dennis Lehane Irish American author Dennis Lehane grew up in the Dorchester section of Boston. Since his first novel, A Drink Before the War, won the Shamus Award, he’s published nine more novels with William Morrow that have been…
October 8 - Jeanine Stevens - The Early Bards and Celtic Symbolism October 15 - Tony Kendrew - Three Welsh Thomases October 22 - Michael Gorman - Poetry, Druids and the Celtic Bardic Tradition October 29 - Maureen Hurley - Axe-Heads and Blind Poets: Anthony Rafery, The End of A…
Litquake 2015 • October 15 Original Shorts: Love-Hate one of Litquake 2015 events features Dubliner and SF resident Ethel Rohan. Ethel's first novel, The Kingdom Keeper, will publish from St. Martin’s Press in early 2017. She is also the author of two story collections, Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone, the…
With sales over 50 million albums worldwide, Chris de Burgh’s songs are staples on the radio. “The Lady In Red” to this day remains one of the most played songs on the planet. De Burgh’s other classic songs include: “Don’t Pay the Ferryman”, “Spanish Train”, “Sailor”, “Natasha Dance” and “A…
Readings of Emma Donoghue's Work • Oct 8, 18 Word for Word Performing Arts Company is an ensemble whose mission is to tell great stories with elegant theatricality, staging performances of classic and contemporary fiction. On October 8, Word for Word presents “Night Vision” by Emma Donoghue. The first, is…
The High Kings, are Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Martin Furey and Darren Holden. Since they started in 2008, they have sold out hundreds of shows, in Ireland and the US, made numerous TV appearances, recorded three studio albums and one live album and achieved platinum status with their first two…
Frankie Gavin • Oct 19, Salinas Presented by The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay. Frankie Gavin has been playing fiddle and flute since his teenage years. At the age of seventeen, he won two All Ireland competitions – for fiddle and flute. Originally influenced by some of the great…
The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay Presents ENSEMBLE OF THE YEAR at the Canadian Folk Music Awards—String Band Dynamo Innovators $15 adv./$17 door seated <21 w/parent PRESENTED BY THE CELTIC SOCIETY OF THE MONTEREY BAY $13 at door to Members of The Celtic Society by way of $2 rebate…
Shamrock Isle: the Irish at the PPIE - A lecture with public historian Elizabeth Creely Mechanics' Institute Library & Chess Room Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 6:00 PM Mechanics' Institute San Francisco. Join Elizabeth Creely as she explores the phenomena of Irish Villages at World Fairs, beginning with the Chicago…
October 8 - Jeanine Stevens - The Early Bards and Celtic Symbolism October 15 - Tony Kendrew - Three Welsh Thomases October 22 - Michael Gorman - Poetry, Druids and the Celtic Bardic Tradition October 29 - Maureen Hurley - Axe-Heads and Blind Poets: Anthony Rafery, The End of A…
It's not often that you stumble across a songwriter whose lyrics both sound and read like poetry. When those lyrics are set to music that balances burning indignation with lilting tenderness, and delivered in a voice imbued with the spiritual passion and yearning of gospel and the blues, you figure…
The fifth annual - and free - festival is shaping up to be one of the best yet, showcasing the very best in local talent including Culann's Hounds, Mild Colonial Boys, Marla Fibish & Bruce Victor, The Gas Men, Kyle Alden, Jack Gilder, The Gallowglasses, Brosnan Irish Dance, and many…
It's not often that you stumble across a songwriter whose lyrics both sound and read like poetry. When those lyrics are set to music that balances burning indignation with lilting tenderness, and delivered in a voice imbued with the spiritual passion and yearning of gospel and the blues, you figure…
Called To Live As One Family - YAM Retreat October 24, 2015 -- 9:30 AM - 10:00 PM All Called to Live as One Family, One Body in Christ! The Archdiocese of San Francisco First Annual Retreat for Adults 18-40, married, single, with and without children. This day-long event will…
ACTIVE RETIREMENT CLUB OUTREACH PROGRAM Sunday, October 25, 2015 United Irish Cultural Center, 2700 45th Avenue, San Francisco 9:00 a.m. Mass celebrated by Fr. Brendan McBride followed by brunch and special guest Visit of President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins We welcome President Higgins and his wife Sabina, on the…
Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco • Oct 27 - Nov 1 Based on the 2006 Oscar winning indie sleeper-hit, Once is the low-key Broadway hit that has re-defined the modern musical, telling the story of a wistful Dublin romance. Told in a rapturous pub, the audience is invited to join in…
Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco • Oct 28 @ 2pm and 8pm Based on the 2006 Oscar winning indie sleeper-hit, Once is the low-key Broadway hit that has re-defined the modern musical, telling the story of a wistful Dublin romance. Told in a rapturous pub, the audience is invited to join…
October 8 - Jeanine Stevens - The Early Bards and Celtic Symbolism October 15 - Tony Kendrew - Three Welsh Thomases October 22 - Michael Gorman - Poetry, Druids and the Celtic Bardic Tradition October 29 - Maureen Hurley - Axe-Heads and Blind Poets: Anthony Rafery, The End of A…
Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco • Oct 27 – Nov 1 Based on the 2006 Oscar winning indie sleeper-hit, Once is the low-key Broadway hit that has re-defined the modern musical, telling the story of a wistful Dublin romance. Told in a rapturous pub, the audience is invited to join in…
Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco • Oct 27 – Nov 1 Based on the 2006 Oscar winning indie sleeper-hit, Once is the low-key Broadway hit that has re-defined the modern musical, telling the story of a wistful Dublin romance. Told in a rapturous pub, the audience is invited to join in…
Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco • Oct 31 @ 2pm, 8pm Based on the 2006 Oscar winning indie sleeper-hit, Once is the low-key Broadway hit that has re-defined the modern musical, telling the story of a wistful Dublin romance. Told in a rapturous pub, the audience is invited to join in…
Front Country + One Grass Two Grass + Rusty Stringfield *costume contest * photo booth * tricks & treats* @Slim's, 333 11th Street, SF 8pm doors / 9pm show / $15 / all ages (6 and up)
After a marathon of music playing at the fantastic Fairfax Irish Festival last weekend, The Gas Men are back at it again on Saturday night at The Plough & Stars, 116 Clement St., San Francisco @ 9:30pm. for a fun Halloween bash.
CALENDAR SPONSORED IN PART BY THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF IRELAND, SAN FRANCISCO