PERFORMERS
A great gathering of Celtic rock musicians and traditional Irish bands will provide the music for the festival. These bands will include:
- The Prodigals
- Donegal XPress
- Finvarra's Wren
- Irish Fire
- The Hedge Band
- Baltimore Washington Ceili Band
- Narrowbacks (Celtic Thunder ’82)
- A New Wave (young students of Donna Long)
Baltimore and Washington’s traditional Irish Dance Schools will also be entertaining audiences, and there will be a Ceili (the traditional Irish folk dancing) on Saturday afternoon, where everybody who wishes to join in the dancing can learn and participate.
These dance schools have been responsible for many Championship Irish Dancers, who have won numerous titles in the All-Ireland and All-World competitions. Some of these dancers have then gone on to perform in such celebrated shows as Riverdance and Lord of the Dance. Come see the exhibition of Irish stepdancing as performed by these schools:
Friday September 12
(tentative)
6pm – Donegal Xpress
7pm – O’Malley’s March
Saturday September 13
(tentative)
12p – Rigadoo
12:45p – Teelin School
1:15 – Ellis Island
2:00p – McHale School
2:30 – Irish Fire
3:15 - A New Wave
(students of Donna Long)
3:45p – Narrowbacks
4:45 – Finvarras Wren
5:45p – Hedge Band
6:30p – Culkin School
7p – Prodigals
