It’s going to be one busy Saturday!
First, singer and peace activist Tommy Sands is headlining at the Sellersville Theatre with his children, Fionan and Moya. If you mention you belong to a Celtic society, you pay $17 instead of $24 a ticket, so hurry to the phones right now.
There are three festivalsgoing on. The Hibernian Hunger Project Festival at Shady Brook Farm in Yardley features just about every local high-energy Celtic band, including the Bogside Rogues, the Shantys, the Birmingham Six, and Jamison. Plus, proceeds go to support this worthy charity of the Ancient Order of Hibernians which provides thousands of meals each year to the area’s homebound residents.
The Mid-Summer Scottish and Irish Music and Wine Festival brings some interesting flavors to Lancaster County’s Host Expo Center. The Bogside Rogues will be doing some traveling—they’re on the bill for this festival too. Also, Paddy’s Well, Seven Nations, Charlie Zahm, Brother, the Tartan Terrors and a number of dance schools will be there. Free wine tastings. This festival runs the whole weekend.
And in Berks County, the annual Celtic Oyster Fest takes place at St. Benedict’s Grove in Mohnton with live music and oysters (who may also be live too, at least for a while). There are other things to eat and drink, plus music.
On Sunday night, join WTMR radio hosts Vince Gallagher and Marianne MacDonald for an evening of song and dance at a benefit at the Irish Center on Emlen Street in the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia..
They’re still dancing up a storm on Thursday nights at the Irish Center. Head on over to learn the foxtrot, box step, jive or even a set dance so you don’t look like a fool on the dance floor at one of the balls.
