Picture a stage filled with 100 fiddlers backed by piano, drums, cellos, guitars, harps and even flutes, now imagine a group that creates such a two-way sense of fun and joy between musicians and audience that people spontaneously get out of their seats and dance in the aisles to the…
“Three sensational fiddlers from three distinct Celtic traditions. Exhilarating fun!” - Boston Herald Advance: Members $20.00 Non-members $22.00 Reservations (pay at the door): Members $22.00 Non-Members $26.00 Door (Subject to availability): Members $24 Non-members $26.00 More information: http://www.celticsociety.org/
Kevin Burke’s fiddle playing has been at the forefront of traditional music for over 30 years. Whether solo or accompanied, on record or in concert, Burke is an engaging performer. He has been established as a first class musician ever since his work in the early 1970’s (with such renowned…
The band has been going strong for over twenty years and shows no sign of slowing down. For a foot-stomping fiddle extravaganza, don’t miss the Celtic Fiddle Festival at the Freight! More information: http://thefreight.org/celtic-fiddle-festival-1
Pieta House Fundraising Walk • May 6 On Saturday May 6th Darkness Into Light, Pieta House's 5km walk/run event will celebrate its 9th year and it's second year in San Francisco. Starting while it's still dark, and finishing just as the sun begins to rise, Darkness into Light has become…
ACTIVE RETIREMENT CLUB OUTREACH PROGRAM Join the IIPC for their Active Retirement Club Monthly Mass and Luncheon at the United Irish Cultural Center, Thursday May 11, 2017. Mass will be celebrated by Fr. Brendan McBride at 12.15 p.m. followed by guest speaker and luncheon. Guest speaker this month is Rosa…
If you missed a chance to get tickets to U2 this month, fret not as the amazing U2 tribute band Zoo Station head up this year's Silicon Valley Fleadh at St. Stephen's Green in Mountain View May 13th and 14th. Live artists and performers will take center stage all weekend…
"...her musical ideas are savvy and sophisticated, but her throaty, gusting style is deeply banked in the Scottish and Cape Breton traditions." -- Boston Globe Members $15.00 Non-Members: Advance $17.00 Door $20.00 More information: http://www.celticsociety.org/
U2 Joshua Tree Tour, Levi Stadium • May 17 Celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree and performing the album in full, every night, U2: The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 kicks off in Vancouver on 12th May for a run of dates across North America, ending in July back…
Irish Literary & Historical Society Speaker Series • May 21 Elizabeth Drew on Samuel Beckett Trinity PhD scholar, will speak on the presence of Ireland in the writings of Nobel Laureate Samuel Beckett. Samuel Beckett, one of the most acclaimed writers of the 20th century, was born in Foxrock, Co.…
Join the IIPC for their Active Retirement Club Coffee Morning! Cairde Café meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month from 10.00 a.m. at the UICC. It is a chance to meet familiar and new faces in a friendly relaxed gathering. Tea and soda bread are served and there is…
GAA Games on Big Screen at UICC Sunday, May 28, 2017. GAA Ulster Football Senior Championship: 6:00am Derry vs Tyrone GAA Leinster Hurling Championship: 8:00am Dublin vs Galway Doors Open at 5:45am Admission is $20.00 at the door for this game. Children are welcome and are free United Irish Cultural…
Celebrate JFK's 100th Birthday • May 28 Join Irish democrats and community leaders at a celebration reception on the 100th birthday of John F. Kennedy. Enjoy speakers and tributes at hosted reception that takes place from 3-5pm at the United Irish Cultural Center. Contact Eileen Kivlehan at [email protected]
Bay Area Book Festival • June 3 & 4 Over the weekend of June 3rd and 4th, 2017, the third annual Bay Area Book Festival will fill downtown Berkeley with a literary extravaganza that offers pleasure to anyone who has ever loved a book. Irish writers featured this year on…
Where cutting-edge marketers and creatives come to get their funny on! FunnyBizz is the only conference of its kind, bringing leading thinkers from the seemingly disparate worlds of comedy and business together to help the world stop synergizing its valueadds and learn to find its funny. Modern businesses succeed or…
Masquerade: Treason, the Holocaust, and an Irish Impostor - City Lights 7pm Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. Róisín Ní Mhéara. Like her name, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family, to traitor…
Bloomsday with Thomas Lynch • Berkeley Lynch reads from James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” 2 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Ave., Berkeley. (510) 704-8222. www.mrsdalloways.com.
Annual Bloomsday Celebration Dinner, Concert, and Community Readings Friday, June 16, 2017 - 6:00pm Eat, Read, Drink, and Walk on the Wild Side of Dublin! The evening begins with a special Bloomsday menu with lively musical interludes featuring a Celtic music ensemble with singers Melanie O’Reilly, Esther Mulligan, & John…
Handsome Devil • June 17, 20 An unlikely yet authentic bond develops between two teenage boys at an Irish boarding school, in this charming, rugby-centric dramedy from talented Irish writer-director John Butler. Sixteen-year-old Ned, with his spiky dyed red hair and ambiguous sexuality, is the music-geek outcast more smitten with…
Frameline Film Festival Three Irish films feature at this year’s Frameline Film Festival, A Date for Mad Mary • June 18, 24 Mary has always been a firecracker — picking fights, mouthing off, and getting wasted at the pub with her best mate, Charlene. But after serving six months in…
Judy Wells, Dale Jensen, Lynn Ireland, Carol Sheldon, Gabrielle Rilleau, and Susan Robinson will read Tuesday, June 20th, at 7 pm at Larkspur Library, 400 Magnolia Avenue, in Larkspur with the Marin Traveling Show hosted by Prartho Sereno. Judy Wells' latest poetry collection, The Glass Ship (Sugartown, 2014), completes her…
Handsome Devil • June 17, 20 An unlikely yet authentic bond develops between two teenage boys at an Irish boarding school, in this charming, rugby-centric dramedy from talented Irish writer-director John Butler. Sixteen-year-old Ned, with his spiky dyed red hair and ambiguous sexuality, is the music-geek outcast more smitten with…
Acclaimed Irish writer Colm Tóibín is the author of nine novels including Brooklyn and Nora Webster and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize three times. His literary subjects have included the imagined inner life of Henry James and the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus. In his…
A Date for Mad Mary • June 24 Mary has always been a firecracker — picking fights, mouthing off, and getting wasted at the pub with her best mate, Charlene. But after serving six months in lockup, Mary returns home to find that Charlene has moved on; she’s more interested…
Join The Crooked Road Ceili Band for a wonderfully warm evening of traditional Irish melodies with Jack, Doug, Julie, and David and songs sung solo and duet by Erin-Ruth Thompson and Julie Horner. Lively tunes on the hammered dulcimer, concertina, Irish wooden flute, fiddle, and guitar. Bring your dancing shoes!
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