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Christmas Hooley – party in downtown Los Gatos

Toll House Hotel 140 South Santa Cruz Avenue, Los Gatos, CA, United States

Christmas Hooley -  dinner, drinks & craic at the beautiful Toll House Hotel in downtown Los Gatos.  Tickets are limited so register today to reserve your seat. Tickets are $120 plus processing fee per person. All sales final. Drinks Reception at 6:00pm Dinner at 7:00pm Music & Dancing 9:00-11:00pm Adjourn to…

Irish Christmas In America, Kuumbwa Santa Cruz

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

Irish Christmas In America • December 12 An exuberant holiday celebration with high-energy Irish music, dance, and storytelling featuring All-Ireland Fiddle Champion, Oisin Mac Diarmada from the award-winning group, Teada; West Kerry ‘Singer of the Year’ & button accordionist, Seamus Begley; Uilleann piper & flute player, Sean Gavin; Harpist &…

Boston Folk Singer & Guitarist Lindsay Straw , Berkeley’s Fifth Street Farms

Marines’ Memorial Theatre 609 Sutter Street , CA, United States

Boston-based folk singer, guitarist and bouzouki player Lindsay Straw along with local fiddler Darcy Noonan will be performing a concert of traditional songs and tunes from Scotland, Ireland, and beyond on Saturday, December 12th at 7:30pm. Tickets are $20; visit www.fifthstfarms.com for reservations and further details. Originally from Montana, singer…

$20

Tales from Wales: A British Christmas

St. Mark's Lutheran Church 1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

Celebrate the season with San Francisco Choral Artists, performing gems from the British Isles and featuring dramatic readings from Dylan Thomas’ iconic and beloved A Child’s Christmas in Wales. From Medieval songs to beloved Irish, Scottish, and Welsh hymns to works by Byrd, Tavener, Howells, Vaughan Williams, Martin Dalby, John…

$12.50 – $33

Crossroads Salon – featuring a film by Flora Skivington and an Open-Mic on ‘Place’

Marines’ Memorial Theatre 609 Sutter Street , CA, United States

Join us for the Crossroads Salon, a forum for writers/artists who have Irish or Irish-American heritages or are interested in exploring Irish-American themes, as well as for readers/viewers who want to participate in this exploration. This meeting of the Crossroads Salon will take place in Oakland near Lake Merritt on…

FREE

“The Seafarer”, Live Oak Theater, Berkeley

Live Oak Theatre 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley

The Seafarer, Berkeley • through December 20 A hilarious comedy by one of Ireland’s best playwrights Conor McPherson, The Seafarer is set on Christmas Eve in Baldoyle, a coastal suburb north of Dublin City. The play centers on James “Sharky” Harkin who attempts to stay off the bottle during the…

Irish Christmas In America • Freight and Salvage, Berkeley

Irish Christmas In America • An exuberant holiday celebration with high-energy Irish music, dance, and storytelling featuring All-Ireland Fiddle Champion, Oisin Mac Diarmada from the award-winning group, Teada; West Kerry ‘Singer of the Year’ & button accordionist, Seamus Begley; Uilleann piper & flute player, Sean Gavin; Harpist & concertina player,…

Comhaltas Christmas Ceili at UICC

Christmas Céilí - Join Comhaltas at the U.I.C.C on Sunday, December 13th for a holiday céilí, starting at 7:00pm - runs until 10:00pm. Live Music. Adults - $10, Children: Free. For more information, please download the event flyer

A Joycean Christmas – “The Dead” at the UICC

Wilde Irish Productions presents A dramatized staged reading of the James Joyce's masterpiece THE DEAD From his short story collection DUBLINERS We join Greta and Gabriel Conroy as they attend the annual Christmas party of their aunts the Misses Morkans in their home on Usher Island, Dublin. It is the Feast…

$25

“The Seafarer” Live Oak Theatre Berkeley

Live Oak Theatre 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley

The Seafarer, Berkeley • through December 20 A hilarious comedy by one of Ireland’s best playwrights Conor McPherson, The Seafarer is set on Christmas Eve in Baldoyle, a coastal suburb north of Dublin City. The play centers on James “Sharky” Harkin who attempts to stay off the bottle during the…

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair • Cow Palace, SF

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair • Cow Palace, SF The Great Dickens Christmas Fair is a one-of-a-kind holiday adventure into Victorian London -  an elaborate party with hundreds of costumed players performing and interacting with patrons in over 120,000 square feet of theatrically-lit music halls, pubs, dance floors, and Christmas…

Family Christmas Party at the UICC

The SF Youth GAA, Irish Immigration Pastoral Center and United Irish Cultural Center host a third annual Community Christmas Party at the UICC on December 20. A fun and festive afternoon with a selection of children’s activities for all ages. Kids can enjoy decorating a Christmas cookie or making ornaments, and…

“The Seafarer”, Live Oak Theater, Berkeley

Live Oak Theatre 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley

"The Seafarer", Live Oak Theater, Berkeley A hilarious comedy by one of Ireland’s best playwrights Conor McPherson, The Seafarer is set on Christmas Eve in Baldoyle, a coastal suburb north of Dublin City. The play centers on James “Sharky” Harkin who attempts to stay off the bottle during the holidays…

West Coast Songwriters Competition Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

West Coast Songwriters Competition Check out the future when the West Coast Songwriters present their monthly Songwriter Competition, where members take the stage and perform their material live on the Freight stage. Performers sign up from 7:00 to 7:20, and at 7:30 the house lights go down and the show…

Paddy Egan at UICC

Paddy Egan plays at the Irish Cultural Center on Saturday, January 2nd at 8 pm along with several other musicians, and will be joined by set dancers. Come out and support the Irish Center and hear Paddy play!

Sea Chantey Session on Balclutha, SF

A public sing-along of sea chanteys and sailor songs aboard a historic ship at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. 8pm to Midnight on the first Saturday of every month. Wear warm clothing and bring a mug for hot cider. Free Admission. Reservations required, call 415-561-7171, or by email For…

Robb Johnson, singer/songwriter

Join one of the finest songwriters in the UK, Robb Johnson performing live in the Bay Area between January 8th to 14th Tour Schedule: -- Friday 8th of January at Poet and Patriot Irish Pub in Santa Cruz, CA -- Saturday 9th of January at 2pm at Down Home Music…

Mostly Free

2016 Rose of Tralee Orientation

2016 Roses and Rosebuds Orientation This is an informal event where the Rose Center team give a briefing to entrants on the format of Rose Selection and how they need to prepare. This is also an ideal opportunity for entrants to meet and mix with each other, for the Center…

James Connolly Songs of Freedom 2016 Tour

The James Connolly Easter Rising Tour 2016 - January 10th to 30th, 2016. Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore begin a year of celebration! James Connolly and the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising. From the publication of Songs of Freedom in 1907 to the declaration of the Irish Republic on…

Mostly Free

Children’s Irish Dance Demonstration, San Rafael

Marinwood 775 Miller Creek Road, San Rafael, United States

Irish Dance Demonstration, San Rafael McBride School of Irish Dance presents a free demonstration of Irish dance for kids ages 5 to 10 years on January 14, 2016 at 5:30 PM at Marinwood, 775 Miller Creek Road, San Rafael. RSVP: (415) 721-1929 [email protected] On Thursdays, from 7:30-8:30pm, there are ongoing…

Poetry Reading w/Judy Wells, Berkeley

Poetry Reading, Berkeley • January 15 Judy Wells was born in San Francisco and raised in Martinez, California.  She taught writing and literature at Bay Area colleges before a career as an Academic Counselor in the School of Extended Education at Saint Mary’s College of California, and as a faculty…

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