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Come celebrate spring and Irish culture with music, dance, fun, and friends. In front of the stage you can dance, mingle, and browse, or just sit down and enjoy the shows. This year's new location fits right into your afternoon after the nearby St. Patrick's Day parade on the Capitol Square. Pizza slices are available all day, and the Brass Ring restaurant, next door to High Noon, opens at 5 pm. Activities include a supervised creative corner for children and an Irish Gaeltacht area.
Schedule
3:00 Rising Gael
4:00 Cashel-Dennehy School of Irish Dance with Public House Ceili Band
4:30 Public House Ceili Band
5:00 Americay
6:00 West Wind
6:30 Trinity Irish Dancers with West Wind
7:00 Ceili, with County Dane Ceili Band
Admission is $5.00 for adults and $2.00 for kids age 11 and under. For further information e-mail ccc@celticmadison.org or call 246-4198.
All performers generously donate their services to benefit the not-for-profit groups Celtic Cultural Center and Celtic Music Association, who cooperatively organize this annual festival. For more information about the performers, visit their Web sites, to which we provide links here.
Both the Cashel-Dennehy Irish dancers and the Trinity Academy Irish dancers will demonstrate Irish step dancing in full-dress performances. If you are not familiar with it, Irish step dancing has become known world-wide via the Riverdance and Lord of the Dance shows.
Finally, everyone will be called to the dance floor for Irish set dances and ceili dances with Madison's very own community Irish dance band, the Flying Cow Ceili Band.