Tosach/Meeting Point: Festival Office, Potato Market
Guided by Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society (CHAS)
Family Storytelling with Aideen McBride
11.00 amJoin Noreen-Marie Geddes workshop and learn a few steps of highland & folk dances. Free event.
11.00 amCéad míle fáilte to the regular Wednesday Conversation hour ‘as Gaeilge’.
12.00 pmFergal Browne will give a talk on Carlow’s very own celtic monument, Brownshill Dolmen.
Visit the Festival Office for details and transport.
A festival treat featuring Carlow’s amazing enCÓRe supported by The Carlow Community Choir.
Intergenerational choral singing for Pan Celtic. Donation optional.
Come to the Céilí for a spot of Irish, Country & Old Time Dancing, The Siege of Ennis and Set Dances with music by Danny Webster one man band. Free event.
2.00 pmAfternoon miscellany of music, song, poetry and more at The Rambling House.
Special Guests: Anna & Maninder of Indeceltic and storytellers Jack Lynch & Len Gaynor.
Free Event
Group Competitions featuring artistes from the six celtic nations go head to head for international awards.
Táille / Admission: €10 (covers entry to the Singing Competitions & Breizh Festival Club)
Scottish Gaelic Conversation. Come along and try a taster session led by Fiona MacNab, Isle of Skye. Free Event.
3.00 pmThe best of live entertainment with Robert Nairne and his Scottish Ceilidh Band. Free event.
3.00 pmMusic Generation Carlow, Laois & Waterford musicians are joined by harpists from Brittany for a gala instrumental collaboration.
4.00 pmJoin Dr. Alasdair C. Whyte, (University of Glasgow) for a talk on the Celtic placenames of Glasgow which reveal the city’s deep Gaelic roots. Free event.
4.00 pmEvening Prayer Service especially for Pan Celtic facilitated by Revd. Trevor Sargent.
5.00 pmSolo Competitions featuring artists from the six celtic nations go head to head for international awards.
Táille / Admission: €10 (covers entry to the Singing Competitions & Breizh Festival Club)
Fáilte isteach - sit in and join the music.
Free event.
Local and visiting singers join Jimmy Crowley & Eve Telford and Len Graham.
Free event.
The best of Welsh music and song with folk band ‘Paid Gofyn’.
Free event.
Pan Celtic Festival Club hosted by Brittany showcasing the best of Breton music, song & dance.
Táille / Admission: €10 (covers entry to the Singing Competitions & The Festival Club)
Late night entertainment with Robert Nairne and his Scottish Ceilidh Band.
Free event.
Dave O’Neill Live plays the tunes.
Free event.
Winners of Traditional Singing competitions for Groups and Solo announced.
Táille / Admission: €10 (covers entry to the Singing Competitions & The Festival Club)