Seisiún #3 @ The Center: Join a variety of performers in an informal setting playing inspired Traditional Irish Music at the home of all things Irish in San Francisco: The United Irish Cultural Center of San Francisco. The musicians will be featured in the central area of the Emerald level…
Warriors Irish Heritage Night on Tuesday January 14th at 7.30pm. Mike Nash WDB - SFGAA Secretary 650-222-9308
The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay is pleased to present a concert with the exciting Nordic folk music band SVER, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 7:30PM at Michael’s On Main in Soquel. SVER play epic Nordic folk music with relentless energy and seductive spark taking you on a fantastic musical…
Not only Irish eyes will be smiling in San Francisco during Sketchfest. Come get a blast of Irish laughter courtesy of the Real Irish Comedy Tour, showcasing the best blend of Irish Comedic talent, accents included. For the first time in its 18 year history San Francisco Sketchfest Comedy Festival…
Michael Stafford, better known as Maverick Sabre, is an Irish song-writer, singer and rapper. He will be performing alongside REESE at the Rickshaw Stop on Jan 22, 2020.
The Paperboys are a Canadian folk music band from Vancouver that formed in 1991. The Paperboys blend Celtic folk with bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, zydeco, soul and country influences. The band will be performing at the Irish Center at 7:30pm.
The FRESH festival, directed by dancer Kathleen Hermesdorf and musician Albert Mathias, showcases contemporary dance and music via collaboration, improvisation, production, curation and education. The festival comprises three weekends of performances. Tara Brandel is a dance artist from Ireland who has been choreographing extensively since 1990, and recently completed an…
The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay is pleased to present the ultimate Scots troubadour Jim Malcolm with his wife, singer Susie Malcolm on Tuesday, January 28th, 7:30PM at an intimate House Concert in Soquel. Traveling the world with his guitar, harmonicas, and engaging wit, Jim sings the traditional songs…
The SFGAA Dinner Dance will be held on Friday February the 7th, and will again be hosted at the Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd, San Francisco. No host bar at 6.30pm and dinner at 7.30pm. Mike Nash WDB - SFGAA Secretary 650-222-9308 [email protected]
Seisiún #4 @ The Center: Join a variety of performers in an informal setting playing inspired Traditional Irish Music at the home of all things Irish in San Francisco: The United Irish Cultural Center of San Francisco. The musicians will be featured in the central area of the Emerald level…
Sharks Irish Heritage Event on Monday February 17th at 1.00pm. Mike Nash WDB - SFGAA Secretary 650-222-9308
EVENT CANCELED The United Irish Cultural Center presents a one-man play about Tom Crean, the Irish man who went to the Antarctic three times with Shackleton and Scott. “Discovering Antartica: Heroic Tales of Shackleton, Crean and Scott” is set during The Golden Age of Antarctic Exploration (1901–16). Discover the riveting…
Téada • Feb 23 & 26 Having just finished recording on the southwest coast of Ireland, acclaimed Irish band Téada embarks on a national US tour this spring with their first new album in seven years. Téada ('strings' in Irish) has been described as “at the cutting edge of the…
Having just finished recording on the southwest coast of Ireland, acclaimed Irish band Téada embarks on a national US tour this spring with their first new album in seven years. Irish Music Magazine describes the band as “at the cutting edge of the next generation of Irish musicians…with a fierce…
Téada • Feb 23 & 26 Having just finished recording on the southwest coast of Ireland, acclaimed Irish band Téada embarks on a national US tour this spring with their first new album in seven years. Téada ('strings' in Irish) has been described as “at the cutting edge of…
MAEVE DONNELLY is a renowned Irish fiddler who keeps traditional music alive while giving it a unique twist. Originally from East Galway, she now lives in the small town of Quin in County Clare. Maeve has performed from a young age throughout Europe, the US, and Canada, and won All-Ireland…
Four, Renaissance San Francisco Siblings Present The Tergis Circus Athena Tergis - Riverdance Alum on 5-String Fiddle, Irish traditional & original Lars Tergis - Fiddle Turkey, Greece and beyond Benezra Tergis - Keys, Afro-Cuban, Funk, Jazz Sean Tergis - Percussion, Middle East,Turkey, Greece and the Balkans. Date And Time Fri,…
Join us on the new stage downstairs at the SF Irish Center (2700 45th Ave @ Wawona, SF) 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 with songs by…
For over a decade, the Acadian trio Vishtèn has dazzled audiences with its fiery blend of traditional French songs and original instrumentals that fuse Celtic and Acadian genres with a modern rock sensibility and indie-folk influences. Lauded as “traditional but fiercely up-to-the- moment” (Penguin Eggs), this band from Canada’s east…
Ar an Aoine, 6 Márta, beidh ár sraith cainte agus bricfeasta #IrelandinSF ag teacht chugaibh ó Ollscoil Stanford, áit a mbeidh muid ag ceiliúradh Seachtain na Gaeilge 2020. Please join us to on Friday, 6th of March 7:30am-9am at the D School at Stanford University, Palo Alto for our #IrelandinSF…
The Ireland Funds Gala on March 6th takes place at San Francisco's Westin St. Francis Hotel on Union Square. This year the Ireland Funds honors San Francisco 49ers GM John Lynch Jr. and Francis C. Mahoney, Vice Chair at Ernst & Young. Honorary Dinner Chair is Colin Ryan, Co-head of…
Formed in 1997 and celebrating its 20th anniversary, Lúnasa has long been one of contemporary Irish music’s leading voices. Named after an ancient Celtic harvest festival in honour of the Irish god Lugh, the group that Folk Roots magazine once called an “Irish music dream team” was formed from members…
4.00 PM Shooting the Darkness – Tom Burke (52 mins) “Photographers don’t take sides, they take pictures.” A powerful new documentary about the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own Northern Irish towns. They did not leave home in search of war and adventure: the…
Not only Irish eyes will be smiling this St. Patrick’s Day. Come get a blast of blarney and Irish laughter just in time for the big day. The Real Irish Comedy Fest showcases the best blend of Irish Comedic talent, accents included and is coming to Santa Cruz for one night…
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