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Cultural Tent Schedule

Photos of Our Performers (Click Here)

A View of Ireland Photo Contest (Click Here)

Friday

6-7 PM               Gilleoghan Irish Dance - Step Dancing & Céilí

7-8 PM               Eisteach - Traditional Irish music

8-9 PM               Chicks-n-Sync – Celtic music

 

Saturday

1-2 PM               Uillean Piper – Jerry O’Sullivan

2-3:00 PM          Harper –Regina DeLaney

3-3:30 PM          Harp Workshop – Regina DeLaney (Harps Available)

3:30-4 PM          Learn a little bit of Irish – John Feeney          

4-4:30 PM          Storyteller (Adults) - Leslie Keogh

4:30-5 PM          Tin Whistle Workshop– Rita MacAuliffe

5-5:30 PM          Gray School of Irish Dance-Dance Workshop       

6-10 PM             Céilí – Green Gates Céilí Band

 

Sunday

11-1 PM             Fiddle, Whistle, Flute, Singing, Singing (Irish) and Speaking(Irish) Competition*

1-2 PM               Uilleann Piper-Matt Connelly

2-3 PM               Harper – Regina DeLaney

3-4 PM               Accordion – John Whelan

4-5 PM               Irish Ballads – Singer/Guitarist Fiona Molloy

4:30-5:30 PM      Traditional music - Shamrogues

 

*Register anytime Friday & Saturday or before 11:00 am on Sunday in the Cultural Tent. 

 

Seisiún tent will be open all day Saturday and Sunday for any musicians andaudience.  A Seisiún leader will be there between 2-5 PM both days.

 

Displays on: Book of Kells, Irish Crochet, Irish Language and Classes, Irish Family Histories, Danbury Dancers (céilí), Dance Costumes & History, Irish Blessings, Literary Displays; Cultural Quiz Display; Mary Garden, Potato Famine, Irish Traditional Music History and Classes and many more.

 

 
 

The Seventeenth Annual Greater Danbury Irish Festival
Held at the Charles Ives Concert Park
September 23, 24 & 25 2011 The Annual Greater Danbury Irish Festival held every September at the Charles Ives Concert Park at Western Connecticut State University's west side campus in Danbury, Connecticut sponsored by the Danbury Ancient Order of Hibernians - AOH & LAOH & The Greater Danbury Irish Cultural Center (GDICC). Learn all about Irish culture, the Gaelic language, music and dance, food and drink! Also, vendors will sell Irish cultural goods and a children's tent is set-up especially for the "Wee Ones!" Come join us!
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