Dervish will be performing for The Little Sisters of the Poor.
Have you recovered from St. Patrick’s Day? Hope so, because there’s plenty going on this week and you need your strength.
Here’s how it goes:
Saturday
Michael Flatley’s “Lord of the Dance” is showing on movie screens in the area—in 3D! Watch out for those flying feet.
The 8th Annual Notre Dame Alumni 5K Race and Walk will explore Valley Green in Fairmount Park—the physically fit are doing it to benefit St. Malachy’s School.
You can pretend it’s still St. Patrick’s Day at Triumph Brewing in New Hope where the Bogside Rogues are playing.
A must-see! The Donnybrook Cup, which pits American rugby team the Tomahawks against the Irish Wolfhounds at Charles Martin Memorial Stadium on Cottman Avenue. Gates open at 2:30, kick-off and blood flow starts at 4 PM.
Irish tenor Anthony Kearns will be on stage at the Upper Darby Performing Arts Center.
Altan, one of Ireland’s top trad groups, is on stage at the Zellerbach Theatre in Philadelphia.
Fresh from their CD release party, Burning Bridget Cleary will be rocking it at The Farmhouse Tavern on Doylestown.
The Waterfront South Theatre in Camden is presenting the play, “Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller.”
Sunday
They’re taking it all off for kids with cancer: Collingswood, NJ, firefighters along with friends and family are shaving their heads at this annual St. Baldrick’s Day fundraiser at Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood. The Broken Shillelaghs are playing music to go bald by.
Rita O’Hare, Sinn Fein representative to the US, will be speaking on the role of Irish Americans in fulfilling one of the tenets of the Good Friday agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland—eventually, one Ireland.
If you live in Allentown, you have a parade marching by—the St. Patrick’s Day parade steps off 1:30 for our northern brethren.
The Irish band Dervish will be at Archbishop Prendergast High School in Drexel Hill for a benefit for The Little Sisters of the Poor.
This one’s a freebie: Dublin comes to Ambler, An evening of Irish music, poetry, food “and general mayhem.” We like the sound of that. And Barleyjuice will be there—we really like the sound of that. This is to lead up to Act II Playhouse’s production of Sebastian Barry’s “The Pride of Parnall Street.”
And DeDannen is going to be at the Sellersville Theatre!
Monday
Oisin MacDiarmada, fiddler and founder of the acclaimed group Teada, and Seamus Begley, quintessential Irish musician and story teller, will be peforming at the Spring Lake Public Library in Spring Lake, NJ. You can also catch them at a house concert in Voorhees on Tuesday. See our calendar for contact info for the house concert—it’s a real house and seating is limited.
The High Kings, a group in the tradition of the Clancy Brothers (in fact, one of them is a Clancy), will be at the World Café Live in Philadelphia.
Wednesday
“The Pride of Parnall Street” by Sebastian Barry opens at the Act II Playhouse in Ambler, part of the Philadelphia Irish Theater Festival.
Thursday
Gaelic Storm is on stage at The Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville.
Friday
Put on your dancing shoes—there’s a St. Patrick’s Day Ceili Dance at the Irish Center in Philadelphia.
One teeny, weeny peek ahead: RUNA, a Philadelphia based Celtic group, will be releasing its new CD—and playing from it—at a party at the Irish Center on Saturday, March 26. Even our non-Irish friends love them.
