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
**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...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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