updated 2025/05/01
Events in the local area
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| May 9 at 7 pm – Ken Kolodner Barns of Rose Hill 95 Chalmers Ct Berryville, VA Ken Kolodner is a renowned hammered dulcimer artist and old-time fiddler based in Baltimore. |
| May 11 at 5:30 pm – Pohemia New Deal Café 113 Center Way Rockefeller Center Greenbelt, MD. Celtic Rock. Formed alongside the docks of Baltimore’s historic, industrial waterside community, POHEMIA brings a fresh interpretation to traditional and Celtic music. |
| May 12 at 7:30 pm – IMT presents ilyAIMY and Ayreheart Saint Mark Presbyterian Church 10701 Old Georgetown Road Rockville, MD Celtic and jazz-infused instrumentation with electric stage presence and 4-part vocal harmonies. |
| May 18 at 4 pm – GWCC Ceili |
| May 24 at 8 pm – Sean Healy in Concert and Conversation The Loft 2029 Monkton Road Monkton, MD An evening of Scottish Gaelic song with Seán Heely, champion fiddler, and a musical and cultural ambassador of Scottish Gaelic culture. |
| May 31 – 54th Deer Creek Fiddlers’ Convention. Carroll County Farm Museum 500 S. Center St. Westminster, MD. featuring concert by Charm City Junction. |
| Jun 1 at 7:30 pm – Ronn McFarlane and Ayreheart Episcopal Church of the Ascension 633 Sligo Ave. Silver Spring, MD Renaissance and original compositions on lute drawn from Celtic, folk, jazz, and bluegrass |
| Jun 5 at 7:30 – Garnet Rogers and Robin Bullock (new) Cellar Stage™ Fulton/Columbia Temple Isaiah 12200 Scaggsville Rd Fulton, MD Garnet is widely considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the finest singers anywhere. Robin Bullock is a prolific composer and multi-instrumentalist, whose virtuosity on guitar, cittern and mandolin blends the ancient melodies of the Celtic lands and their vigorous Appalachian descendants into one powerful musical vision. |
| June 21 at 7:30 pm – Baltimore Folk Club presents John Doyle and Mike McGoldrick (new) The Theater Creative Alliance 3134 Eastern Ave. Baltimore, MD John Doyle and Mike McGoldrick, together, represent the finest musicians performing in traditional Irish music today. |
| June 25 at 7:30 pm – Tartan Terrors The Birchmere 3701 Mt. Vernon Ave Alexandria VA a distinctive sound and a proud tradition of making Celtic music fun and accessible to any audience |
| July 13-19 – South Sligo Summer School St. Bridget’s Hall Tubbercurry County Sligo Ireland Daily set and sean nos dance classes, music workshops. Pat Murphy teaching sets. Ceilis every night. |
| July 13-19 – Catskills Irish Arts Week (new) MJQ Irish Centre 2267 Route 145 East Durham, NY |
| July 16 at 7:30 pm – JigJam (new) The Gudelsky Gazebo The Mansion at Strathmore 10701 Rockville Pike North Bethesda, MD 20852 This Irish-born band has ignited the flame of “igrass” or Irish Bluegrass in this reiteration of Americana. |
| July 26-28 – CCE Musical Arts and Dance (MAD) Week (new) Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockville 100 Welsh Park Dr Rockville, MD |
| Aug 1-3 – Dublin (OH) Irish Festival. Coffman Park Dublin, Ohio. |
| Aug 7 at 7:30 – Celtic music with IONA Cellar Stage™ Fulton/Columbia Temple Isaiah 12200 Scaggsville Rd Fulton, MD IONA‘s music is a unique, acoustic weave of the traditional music of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany (France), the Isle of Man, Asturies and Galicia (Spain), as well as their transplants in America |
| Aug 15-17 – Milwaukee Irish Fest – Cherish the Ladies Henry W. Maier Festival Park 200 North Harbor Drive Milwaukee, WI |
| Sep 14 at 7 pm – Moch Pryderi (“Pryderi’s Pigs” in Welsh) Swift Run Celtic House Concerts For reservations & directions call (703) 426-1450 or email. one of the longest standing pan Celtic bands in Virginia. Performing primarily Welsh, Breton, and Scottish tunes and songs, |
| Sep 28 at 7 pm – IONA Swift Run Celtic House Concerts For reservations & directions call (703) 426-1450 or email. IONA‘s music is a unique, acoustic weave of the traditional music of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany (France), the Isle of Man, Asturies and Galicia (Spain), as well as their transplants in America |
Oct 1 at 8 pm – Talisk and Gardiner Brothers presents: Unleashed The Hamilton Live 600 14th Street NW Washington, DC a thrilling collision of sound and movement in UNLEASHED, featuring the award-winning Scottish folk band Talisk and the world-famous Gardiner Brothers, viral Irish dance sensations |
| Oct 10-18 – Celtic Colours International Festival various locations around Cape Breton, NS, Canada |
| Oct 31 – Nov 2 – GWCC Fling Silver Spring, MD A whole weekend of set dance: 3 workshops, 2 ceilis, and with Padraig and Roisin teaching sets. |