Phoenixville Celtic Street Fair

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Phoenixville Celtic Street Fair 2011

This year's fair featured an impromptu visit by a passing bride and groom.

It drizzled, it rained, it poured.

A lot like the weather in Scotland and Ireland, come to think about it. But a bit of moisture from the skies did little to dampen the enthusiasm of festival-goers along Phoenixville’s main drag on Saturday.

It pretty much had everything.

There was great music, to start… Barleyjuice, Oliver McElhone, Charlie Zahm, The Brigade, Ted the Fiddler Band.

Irish Thunder Pipes & Drums performed throughout the day, as did the Pride of Erin dancers.

Vendors sold everything from Celtic jewelry to Guinness baseball caps to fish and chips.

One last thing … props to the bride and groom who stopped their limo and jumped out to share a quick dance in front of the stage. Every marriage should get off to such a good start.

May 20, 2011 by Jeff Meade

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A Look Back at the 2008 Phoenixville Celtic Street Fair

Brian Boru drum major shows off his natty chapeau.

Phoenixville went to the dogs this past Saturday.

It also went to the pipers and drummers, didgeridoo players, Irish dancers, merchants of meat pies and purveyors of claddagh rings, soft-sculpture Guinness hats and plastic Claymores.

The 2nd annual Celtic Street Fair brought ’em all out to this little town along the banks of the Schuylkill. And on a somewhat cool and cloudy day, this wonderfully old-fashioned town (a real town, not a bedroom berg with a superhighway running up the middle of it) with its quaint shops and the smell of fish and chips and the skirl of the pipes in the air could almost make you feel like you were somewhere else. Somewhere like, oh, Ennis or Ballynahinch or Westport or any old Irish market town you care to think of.

We’ve assembled a neat little pile of photos from the day.

May 15, 2008 by Jeff Meade