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Dublin, CA St. Patrick’s Festival

100 Civic Plaza Dublin, CA 94568 100 Civic Plaza , Dublin, United States

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,…

Melanie O’Reilly Jazz Trio

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!…

Free – $20

ILHS Annual Banquet

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…

Transcontinental Railroad Crossroads Presentation

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…

Chinese, Irish and Construction of Transcontinental Railroad

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: ACLU/NRDC Benefit

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…

$25

Family Stories Workshop • UICC

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

ADDRESS ON RSVP

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 • UICC

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

San Jose City Hall Rotunda 200 East Santa Clara Street, San Jose, CA

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

Irish Night at the San Jose Sharks

**Irish Heritage Night at Sharks • March 28** ========== The San Jose Sharks host Dublin Lord Mayor, Brendan Carr at the March 28 game. Use promo code IRISH to access your ticket and postgame Irish Heritage Night center activities. more...

Whiskies of the World San Jose

Forager Eatery and Tasting Room 420 South First Street, San Jose, CA, United States

There is so much to do at Whiskies of the World in San Jose! Meeting whisky distillers, owners, and brand ambassadors as you taste and experience their finest spirits from around the world. Included in the admission is a two hour tasting experience starting at 6:00PM or 8:10PM, a souvenir…

$80

18th Annual Whiskies of the World San Francisco

San Francisco Belle Yacht (remains docked) Pier 3, San Francisco, CA, United States

Benefiting Breast Cancer Emergency Fund Whiskies of the World gathers the world’s most fascinating distilled spirits along with their makers and ambassadors to give its guests an opportunity to sample, learn and experience a night of delicious spirited fun. The 18th Expo will be on the SF Belle Hornblower Yacht…

$140

Erin Ruth Thompson, Crooked Road at UICC

Erin Ruth Thompson @ UICC with The Crooked Road Ceili Band 6:30 PM Friday, March 31st, / 2700 45th Ave, San Francisco Rising star vocalist Erin Ruth Thompson came to the Bay Area in late 2012 from Tuscon via Hawai'i. With encouragement from Jack Gilder at the Plough & Stars…

Daughter of a Garbageman

The Marsh, San Francisco 1062 Valencia, San Francisco, CA, United States

Irish Culture Bay Area Special Offer! Buy one ticket, get one free (enter IRISH at checkout) “Daughter of a Garbageman” is a tale of Maureen Langan’s 1970’s upbringing in New Jersey. Her Irish mother and Bronx-born father, a New York City sanitation worker, told her to work hard, get educated…

IIPC Bi-Annual Family Sports Day

George Washington Grove Golden Gate Park (Enter at 25th Avenue & Lincoln), San Francisco , CA, United States

It is time for the IIPC Spring Sports Day!!!  Join the Irish Immigration Pastoral Center next Sunday, April 2 from 1.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.  Sports Day will take place at George Washington Grove in Golden Gate Park (enter at Lincoln & 25th Avenue). All are welcome to join - families, with or without kids,…

FREE

Oral Histories of the Irish in San Francisco

Sunday, April 2nd, 1-3pm Join Irish-American Crossroads for this seventh annual event honoring the life histories of participants in the Irish Oral History Archive of the San Francisco Bay Area, a project of Irish-American Crossroads. Bring the whole family to this wonderful event! United Irish Cultural Center, St. Francis Room…

Black Brothers, Celtic Society Monterey Anniversary

Don Quixote's International Music Hall 6275 Highway 9, Felton, CA, United States

Black Brothers, Felton • April 2 April marks the 25th anniversary of the first concert put on by the Celtic Society Of The Monterey Bay. Michael and Shay Black play the anniversary concert at Don Quixote's The repertoire of the Black Brothers is very broad and includes old Dublin street…

The Memory Stick, SJ Stage

San Jose Stage 490 S. First Street, San Jose, CA, United States

The Memory Stick, SJ Stage • April 5-30 WORLD PREMIERE, international co-sponsored co-production by San Jose Stage Company and Dublin City Arts Office. Written by Donal O'Kelly, award-winning Irish playwright and actor. Cultures collide when Bridget, a young Chicagoan, meets a Lakota Sioux and a fellow American from Jersey on…

Comedy for a Spinal Cause

Avalon 1268, Sutter St, , San Francisco., United States

Join Dubliner David Nihill for a great night of laughter for an even greater cause! For one night only thanks to Argonaut we have access to the old Avalon Ballroom, which hosted bands like Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, The Doors, and the Steve Miller Band. It’s a really cool space…

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas • Berkeley

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas • April 6   Alasdair Fraser has been called “one of the finest fiddle players Scotland has ever produced; his name is synonymous with the vibrant cultural renaissance transforming the Scottish musical scene.” Natalie, a Juilliard graduate, is one of the most sought-after cellists playing…

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, Santa Cruz

Kuumbwa Jazz Center 320-2 Cedar St, , Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas Alasdair Fraser has been called “one of the finest fiddle players Scotland has ever produced; his name is synonymous with the vibrant cultural renaissance transforming the Scottish musical scene.” Natalie, a Juilliard graduate, is one of the most sought-after cellists playing traditional music today. She’s…

Tim O’Brien, Berkeley

Tim O'Brien • April 7 & 8 Berkeley, April 7, Sebastopol, April 8. “A master of American folk music, Irish music, Scottish music – it doesn’t matter; a fine songwriter and one of my favorite singers.” –Mark Knopfler Tim O'Brien's tireless dedication to a vast and still-expanding array of instruments,…

International Film Festival: A Tribute to Ethen Hawke

YBCA Theater 700 Howard Street , San Francisco, CA, United States

A Tribute to Ethen Hawke • April 8 Director: Aisling Walsh. Stricken with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, Maud (Sally Hawkins) faces rejection from her own family in 1930s Nova Scotia. But she finds acceptance in the home of another outsider, curmudgeonly fishmonger Everett Lewis, who hires her to be his housekeeper.…

Tim O’Brien, Sebastopol

Sebastopol Community Cultural Center 390 Morris Street, Sebastopol, CA , CA, United States

"A master of American folk music, Irish music, Scottish music - it doesn't matter; a fine songwriter and one of my favorite singers." --Mark Knopfler In Tim O’Brien’s music, things come together. The uncanny intersection of traditional and contemporary elements in his songwriting, his tireless dedication to a vast and…

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