The Broken Hearts Club Band play a one-off special musical benefit for the American Heart Association at the United Irish Cultural Center on May 20. Local musicians Vincie Keehan, Rory McNamara, John Caulfield and Michael Black have each been treated for some form of heart issue over recent years, hence…
Three of the premier Celtic harpers in the world take you deep into the myths, magic and fabled history of this most captivating instrument. Featuring Patrick Ball (Celtic harp and spoken word), Lisa Lynne (Celtic harp, Irish bouzouki, and mandolin), and Aryeh Frankfurter (Celtic harp, cittern, and nyckelharpa). Yerba…
David Brundage, ILHS Speaker • May 22 In this important work of deep learning and insight, David Brundage gives us the first full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the United States. Beginning with the brief exile of Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism, in Philadelphia on the eve…
Join us to discuss Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis, an enchanting collection of the sagas of gods and goddesses, fabulous beasts, strange creatures, and heroes like Cuchulain, Fingal and King Arthur, including popular myths and legends from all six Celtic cultures: Irish, Scots, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and…
Celebrate Maeve/Medb Irish Goddess of Sovereignty, war, love/sexuality, & magic. Daughters of the Goddess is a Aloha Dianic womyn-only Goddess Temple dedicated to honoring Multicultural Goddesses through rituals and celebrating ceremonies of Womyn's Mysteries in the Spirit of Aloha. We generally have two rituals a month and are always looking…
One Lane Bridge, featuring local Celtic music heroes, John Weed from Molly's Revenge, whom I'm sure weed all agree is one of the finest fiddlers on terra firma, Aria DiSalvio, whose cello salvos songlike & celestial & makes you salivate for further from her & William Coulter in whose mighty…
May 26-28. The Seagull and Other Birds is a roller coaster reimagining of Anton Chekhov’s much-loved comic masterpiece. The performance centers around a concise new version of The Seagull integrated with a number of works specially commissioned by the Republic of Ireland’s premiere theater company. Through the wormhole of the…
Irish Americans for Hillary Clinton California Pre-Primary Celebration (Not a Fundraiser!) Date: Thursday. May 26. 2016 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 P.M. Where: The Irish Bank, 10 Mark Lane, San Francisco. CA 94108 Price: Free (Cash bar) With Special Guests: Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Kevin Mullin Supervisor Mark Farrell Suzy Loftus,…
Irish comedienne Kate Perry presents a happy hour of acutely observed and quirky monologues reflecting her unique view on life, featuring six costumes, a can of WD40, two pairs of glasses and a rubber hat. Whether it’s Mary Peachy-Bender, an Amish woman with shoofly pie envy, Jimmy the vigilante man…
Women Gettin' Witty: All-Female Stand-Up at The Purple Onion From stand-up pioneers like Joan Rivers and Roseanne Barr to modern alt-comedy heroes like Maria Bamford and Tig Notaro, women have been rocking the mic -- and giving their Y-chromosome counterparts a run for their money -- since the earliest…
Nostalgic Irish-American songs your mom sang in the kitchen, time-tested ballads people ask us to perform at weddings, wakes, and private parties, favorite Scottish bagpipe tunes, and a few surprises...all combined into Charmas' 1x per year "By Request" show. This is a great family show, because it spans all generations.…
Nostalgic Irish-American songs your mom sang in the kitchen, time-tested ballads people ask us to perform at weddings, wakes, and private parties, favorite Scottish bagpipe tunes, and a few surprises...all combined into Charmas' 1x per year "By Request" show. This is a great family show, because it spans all generations.…
Only $10 for members and $20 for non-members! It's back!! Back by popular demand, the INBA Beer Brewing & Education event returns bigger and better than ever! Curious about the beer brewing process? Want to start your own home brew hobby but don’t know where to start? Looking for a…
The Bay Area Book Festival returns to downtown Berkeley, Calif., the weekend of June 4-5. The two-day, free festival will welcome 280 local, national, and international authors and speakers in 120 literary sessions (panels, interviews, keynotes and performances) throughout a 10-block radius of downtown Berkeley. Organizers expect to top last…
Irish band The Gallowglasses performs at the San Francisco Free Festival. Stay for the whole day of music and dance workshops and performances. Enjoy rollicking Irish music by The Gallowglasses at 5:00 p.m. on the main stage. The festival is held this year at Everett Middle School, 450 Church St,…
The Shams began in 2011 in San Francisco, lead by energetic and charismatic front man Sean Daly, from Donegal, Ireland. In the last year, The Shams released their award-winning EP "One and All", embarked on a Northwest tour and sold out the legendary Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.…
On behalf of the Irish Immigration Pastoral Center, the Consulate General of Ireland and St. Columba's Church, we invite you to join us to celebrate a First Anniversary Mass for Olivia Burke, Eoghan Culligan, Ashley Donohoe, Lorcán Miller, Niccolai Schuster and Eimear Walsh who lost their lives in Berkeley on…
Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 12:00pm Admission includes lunch and libations. Eat, Read, Walk on the Wild Side of Dublin! A special Bloomsday menu will be served with community readings of Ulysses by James Joyce and lively conversation! Bring your books and favorite passages! Bloomsday attire is welcome!
Wilde Irish Productions presents 12th Annual Bloomsday Celebration at the San Francisco Main Public Library (Latino Hispanic Community Room) Thursday 16 June 2016 6.o0pm Readings from James Joyce's illustrious masterpiece Ulysses With music by Shay Black Join Wilde Irish Productions for an evening of performed readings for Bloomsday. Hear excerpts from…
Jazz & Literary Event "A Celebration of Bloomsday: Joyce & Jazz" Join us for a unique cultural evening featuring award-winning jazz singer and songwriter Melanie O'Reilly from Ireland ,who teams with top Bay Area jazz pianist Frank Martin to perform their original music inspired by the writings of James Joyce , interwoven with readings from Joyce's works. …
EMMET CAHILL LIVE AT UNITED IRISH CUTURAL CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO After his sold out Us Tour last year Ireland's most exciting young tenor Emmet Cahill returns to the west coast to play The United irish Cultural Center of San Francisco for the very first time The Celtic Thunder star…
SCOTLAND is coming to Amador County with the inaugural Mother Lode Highland Games and Gathering. This two-day event is great for the whole family, from the young to the young at heart. The Highland Games will have events such as: caber tossing (throwing what looks like a wooden telephone pole…
Fiddler Tommy McCarthy & his wife, button accordionist & banjoist Louise, nee Costello, come from families steeped in Irish traditional music as well being owners of one of the premiere venues for traditional music in this country, The Burren in Somerville, Mass. Son of legendary West Clare musician Tommy McCarthy…
Freight favorites Robin Flower and Libby McLaren return for an exhilarating evening of innovative instrumentals, tight vocal harmonies, wild creative energy, and loads of fun. With Robin on fiddle, mandolin, and guitar, Libby on piano and accordion, and both of them sharing vocals, this polished and passionate duo creates their…
Paddy O'Brien • June 18, 19 Paddy O'Brien’s mastery of the two-row button accordion has been acknowledged through many prestigious awards including All-Ireland senior accordion champion. Paddy is regarded as one of the tradition’s most important repositories; in a musical career that spans more than fifty years, he has collected more than 4,000 compositions—jigs, reels,…
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