St. Patrick's Festival at CB Hannegan's • Mar 17 It's that time of year again at CB Hannegan's in Los Gatos for the annual huge and fantastic St. Patrick's day party. Join thousands for music, dancing, and home cooked - tickets are $55 and can be purchased at the bar.…
Music at the United Irish Cultural Center all day! Ivor Collins March 17 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm The Toast Inspectors March 17 @ 3:30 pm - 7:30 pm Charmas March 17 @ 8:00 pm
Season of Gaelic Games begins at the UICC UICC Gaelic Games is pleased to present, LIVE, on the BIG SCREEN: GAA Club Finals on St. Patrick’s Day, Friday March 17, 2017 Senior Hurling Championship Final: 8:00am Dublin’s Cuala vs Clare’s Ballyea Senior Football Championship Final: 10:00am Dr. Crokes of Kerry …
Hibernian Newman Luncheon • March 17 The Hibernian Newman Club of San Francisco is a non-profit organization of business and professional people of Irish descent whose residence or place of business is located within the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Established in 1964, the Hibernian Newman Club has supported the Newman…
Join us for the 2nd Annual St. Patrick's Day tour of the Dogpatch led by San Francisco City Guides! Once called "Irish Hill", the Dogpatch became home to thousands of working class Irish, Scottish and English immigrants during the 1860's. Learn about the infamous neighborhood and visit historical sites during…
The Crooked Road Ceili Band holds forth traditional Irish tunes and songs on this most important of days, St.Paddy's! Enjoy exceptional cocktails, craft beer, and "sinfully good" eats on the patio while we entertain you with a bit o' the pure drop! Come celebrate at Jack Rose Libation House! With…
TWO SHOWS! 7pm and 8.45pm Irish-born violinist Colm Ó Riain and some stellar musical friends combine the music of Ireland with rhythms and melodies from all over the musical world – jazz, blues, Roma, India, Cuba, Brazil, and much more. Featuring: Colm Ó Riain – violin Joe Kyle Jr –…
What better place to spend St. Patrick's Day evening than in a tiki-themed comic book store? Stay with us for a second and we will explain. St. Patrick's Day has become overrun by drunken behavior and the craziness perpetrated by the once-a-year Irish. If you want to celebrate St. Patrick's…
Zoo Station: The Complete U2 Experience The lights go down, it's dark and the soaring sound of a rock band bound for greatness collides with the low ceiling of a small club. It's like 1978 all over again, when U2 first stormed the pubs of Dublin, Ireland.But this is the…
Shay and Michael Black celebrate St. Patrick's Day Eve with their traditional Freight concert, brimming with lilting harmonies, catchy rhythms, and superb musicianship. The brothers never fail to create a sheer celebration of singing, and their infectious humor, wit, and unalloyed joy in performing make it difficult for anyone to…
Tempest at Dublin, CA festival • March 17-19 Since forming in 1988, Tempest has delivered a globally-renowned hybrid of high-energy folk rock fusing Irish reels, Scottish ballads, Norwegian influences and other world music elements. The last 28 years have seen the San Francisco Bay Area based act release fifteen critically…
San Francisco-based, Irish-style folk rock band. Fusing Irish-style music with modern driving folk, rock, and Americana, The Quiet Men have been blaring through local concert venues, street festivals, and beer festivals with original song-writing since 2011. Prodigiously talented and attractive, this group does not disappoint. ] Grab a beer, stomp…
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in a true Bay Area tradition with Lucia Comnes & Her Rockin’ Irish Band: a 4-piece folk powerhouse that combines influences from Rock, Blues and Bluegrass to deliver upbeat Irish and Americana roots music. With her fiery fiddling, Comnes leads high energy sets of groove-oriented traditional…
Saturday & Sunday, March 18 & 19, 2017 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Dublin Civic Center 100 Civic Plaza Dublin, CA 94568 Green and White Gala, Dublin Sister City Association, Friday,March 17, 2017, 6:00 p.m. Dublin Senior Center, 7600 Amador Valley Boulevard Pancake Breakfast, Alameda County Firefighters - Local 55,…
Saturday, Mar 18, 3pm Listen at 91.7 or on-line, http://www.kalw.org/ The Black Brothers, Shay and Michael Black, return to KALW after a long absence. The brothers will catch us up on what they've been doing and regale us with their songs and family stories. They'll perform with their band on…
Join the Black Brothers as they take to the stage of the Sunnyvale Theatre, CA with Bobbi Nikles and Eamonn Flynn. The repertoire of the Brothers is very broad and includes old Dublin street songs, music hall songs and historical ballads, songs from the Irish, English and Scottish traditions, along…
Third Sunday Concert Series Sunday, March 19, 2017 @ 4pm Irish Celtic-Jazz vocalist Melanie O’Reilly Jazz Trio with Frank Martin, piano; Fred Randolph, bass; &special guest, Jane Lenoir, flute. at St. Alban’s Church, Albany CA 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany (one block north of Solano Avenue) 510-525-1716, www.st-albans-albany.org REGISTER NOW!…
Annual Banquet, March 19. The ILHS presents their annual St. Patrick’s Banquet on Sunday, March 19 at the Saint Patrick’s Ballroom in the United Irish Cultural Center. This year's event features harpist and storyteller Patrick Ball, with song and dramatic reading by Esther Mulligan, and music by fiddler, Anne Goess. Contact…
Chinese, Irish, and the Transcontinental Railroad • Mar 26 “Chinese and Irish Workers in the Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.” Gordon H. Chang, Professor of American History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford, and Barry P. McCarron, Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow of Irish Studies…
Saturday, March 25th Time: 1:00-3:00pm Chinese and Irish Workers in the Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad Gordon H. Chang, Professor of American History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford, and Barry P. McCarron, Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow of Irish Studies at New York University,…
Irish Musicians Against Hate: A Benefit Concert for the ACLU & NRDC Join us for an evening of traditional Irish music featuring a wonderful line-up of local Irish bands. You'll enjoy an evening of fabulous music while helping support civil liberties and the environment. All proceeds go to the ACLU…
Family Stories Workshop • Mar 26 Family Stories Workshop: Creating Narratives from Family Records. Margaret Cooley will give a talk and teach a workshop on how she began without any records, stories or photographs and found enough information to recreate a family story and write a book, The McQueeneys: From…
Crossroads Salon Sunday, March 26. 2:00pm-5:00pm. Location: A private residence in St. Francis Woods. Address provided with RVSP. RSVP: [email protected] or call 707-235-9858. Free event. Join us to share or enjoy creative work inspired by Irish-American life in a comfortable and congenial Salon experience! You are cordially invited to the…
Phil Coulter & Special Guest Geraldine Brannigan. Phil Coulter is up in that Pantheon inhabited by the biggest selling recording artistes of all time in Ireland, rubbing shoulders with Bono and the Boys. From Derry, Northern Ireland, Phil has performed with everyone from James Galway and the London Symphony Orchestra to Nanci Griffith…
Spirit Of Ireland Award, San Jose • Mar 28 The Spirit of Ireland Awards are presented to individuals or companies whose accomplishments have exemplified the relationship between San Jose / Silicon Valley and Dublin, Ireland. This year's recipient is Marie O'Flaherty - more
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