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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Celtic Music in Texas

To receive these postings via email, click HERE No Message is necessary. Back to Irish Aires Table of Contents ---- Note: These mailings assembled by unpaid volunteers in a sleep-deprivation experiment. All schedules subject to change or perhaps even error. Send listings, preferably in text-only format, to calendar@texcelt.org. The calendar covers Monday to Monday (under normal circumstances) and is mailed over the weekend (under normal circumstances). Submit your listings by Friday. Regular events are listed once a month. *********************** EVENTS IN CENTRAL TEXAS *********************** Thursday, March 17, 2005 St. Patrick's Day Throwdown celebrating the Irish roots of bluegrass Mother Egan's Austin, TX noon - midnight $5 donation at the door to benefit the Celtic Cultural Center Entertainment includes the Weary Boys, Tea Merchants, Cluan, Chisholm County Line, Ptarmigan, Irish Dance Center, Clickety Cloggers, Jeff Moore, Silver Thistle Pipes & Drums For information contact Donnelle Mckaskle at 512-431-6290 http://celticcenter.org/ St. Patrick's Day Celebration Fado Irish Pub 214 W 4th St. Austin, TX 512/457-0172 Music includes Blaggards and Silver Thistle Pipes & Drums B.D. Riley's Pub St. Patrick's Day Celebration 204 E. 6th St. Austin, TX 512/494-1335 11 AM Gan Fidil 2 PM Tip the Jar 6 PM Cluan 9 PM Pubcrawler midnight The Tea Merchants No Cover St. Patrick's Day Celebration Dog & Duck Pub Austin, TX Music includes Silver Thistle Pipes & Drums Silver Thistle Pipes & Drums North By Northwest Austin, TX noon - 1:30 PM St. Patrick's Day Beginner Social Austin Scottish Country Dance Society Quicksilver Dance Studio Austin, TX 7 - 9 PM Bring a snack to share! Brazos Valley Celtic Association St. Patrick's Day Party Carney's Pub 3410 South College Bryan, TX http://www.bvcelts.org/BVCAmain2.html Friday, March 18, 2005 Tea Merchants Irish Dragoon Pub Killeen, TX 8:30 PM Saturday & Sunday, March 19-20, 2005 Brobdingnagian Bards Excalibur Fantasy Faire Rocky Hill Ranch Smithville, TX 512/303-3801 http://thebards.net/ Sunday, March 20, 2005 Irish Heritage Day Institute of Texan Cultures 801 S. Bowie San Antonio, TX noon - 5 PM (210) 458-2330 $7 adults; $4 children 3-12, seniors 65+, military; free for children 2 & younger Guest speakers: Jean Kelly, founder and director of the Speedwell Trust, and Harry McKillop, humanitarian (1 PM) Entertainment includes Irish dancers, Boru, Foxes, and harper Doc Grauzer Activities include kids korner, storyteller, Irish "tattoo," make St. Brigid's Cross, Celtic coloring, etc., Celtic sales, genealogy, travel & video, scone making demo, Book of Kells, more. For information contact Tina Luther at Tina.Luther@utsa.edu or (210) 458-2237 ************************************************ EVENTS IN EAST TEXAS, MISSISSIPPI, AND LOUISIANA ************************************************ Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Thistle & Harp: Celtic Heritage Society of East Texas Monthly meeting Oakland Heights Baptist Church 1607 Judson Rd Longview, TX 7 - 9 PM http://www.txcelt.com/ Thursday, March 17, 2005 St. Patrick's Day Celebration McGonigel's Mucky Duck Pub 2425 Norfolk Houston, TX 713/528-5999 $14 Entertainment starts at noon and includes Wyndnwyre, EJ Jones, Jiggernaut, the Rogues, O'Mhaoileidigh Irish Dancers, Tartanic, Martin Burniston's Irish Singalong, and the Irish Session Players http://www.mcgonigels.com/stpatricks2005.htm Houston St. Patrick's Festival Meridian 1503 Chartres Houston, TX no cover 5 PM Music includes The Flying Fish Sailors, Constant Billy, Godfrey’s Rangers, Paisley Close, and dancers and pipers http://www.meridianhouston.com/ Constant Billy KPFT, 90.1 FM Houston, TX 2:30 PM http://www.constantbilly.com/ St. Patrick's Day Brian O'Neill's 5555 Morningside Houston, TX 713/522-2603 1:30 - 5:30 PM Murder the Stout (singalong) 6 PM The Slags 7:30 PM McTeggart Irish Dancers 8 PM The Slags 10 PM Trey Clark Band Liam Tierney Molly's Pub Houston, TX 4 PM Irish Society 3rd Annual St Patrick’s Day Mass Chapel of St. Basil University of St. Thomas 3802 Yoakum Houston, TX 10:30 AM Followed by corned beef & cabbage brunch at 11:45 AM in the Scanlan Room. Brunch cost $20 for Irish Society members; $30 for nonmembers For more info call Lori Gallagher at 713-525-3592 or email irishstudies @ stthom.edu. http://www.theirishsociety.org/ Brazos Valley Celtic Association St. Patrick's Day Party Carney's Pub 3410 South College Bryan, TX http://www.bvcelts.org/BVCAmain2.html Monday, March 21, 2005 "Early Irish Travel on the Galway Line: Transatlantic Triumph or Heroic Failure?" Lecture by Timothy Collins, a Chartered Librarian in the James Hardiman Library, National University of Ireland, and Galway Graduate of University College Galway in marine sciences and scholar of maritime history Director of the Centre for Landscapes Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway Ahern Room Crooker Center University of St. Thomas 3909 Graustark Houston, TX Free and open to the public; no RSVP required 7 PM Sponsored by Len Ivins on behalf of Ann Caraway Ivins, the UST Center for Irish Studies and the Irish Society For more info call Lori Gallagher at 713-525-3592 or email irishstudies@stthom.edu ********************************************** EVENTS IN NORTH TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, AND ARKANSAS ********************************************** Thursday, March 17, 2005 St. Patrick's Day Tipperary Inn 5815 Live Oak Dallas, TX 8 PM - midnight Entertainment includes Amberhawke, Behan, Boru's Ghost Spriggan Irish Rover Pub & Restaurant 8250 Gaylord Pkwy Frisco, TX 214-618-6222 4 - 6 PM http://www.spriggan.org/ Gallus MacHenry's 7618 Camp Bowie West Blvd Fort Worth, TX 817-377-0202 8 PM - midnight http://www.geocities.com/Gallustrad/ St. Patrick's Day Trinity Hall Irish Pub and Restaurant 5321 East Mockingbird Lane #250 Dallas, TX 214-887-3600 11:30 AM - 3:30 PM Jigsaw afternoon Irish Sing Along 9 PM Seamus Stout Friday, March 18, 2005 Scottish Mayhem MacHenry's 7618 Camp Bowie West Blvd Fort Worth, TX 817-377-0202 http://www.scottishmayhem.com/ Gallus Trinity Hall Irish Pub and Restaurant 5321 East Mockingbird Lane #250 Dallas, TX 214-887-3600 9 PM - 1 AM http://www.geocities.com/Gallustrad/ Sunday, March 20, 2005 Gallus Celtic Spring Lightcatcher Winery 6925 Confederate Park Road Fort Worth, TX 4 - 7 PM $10 No children under 12, please http://www.geocities.com/Gallustrad/ ********************* EVENTS IN SOUTH TEXAS ********************* Sunday, March 20, 2005 Irish Heritage Day Institute of Texan Cultures 801 S. Bowie San Antonio, TX noon - 5 PM (210) 458-2330 $7 adults; $4 children 3-12, seniors 65+, military; free for children 2 & younger Guest speakers: Jean Kelly, founder and director of the Speedwell Trust, and Harry McKillop, humanitarian (1 PM) Entertainment includes Irish dancers, Boru, Foxes, and harper Doc Grauzer Activities include kids korner, storyteller, Irish "tattoo," make St. Brigid's Cross, Celtic coloring, etc., Celtic sales, genealogy, travel & video, scone making demo, Book of Kells, more. For information contact Tina Luther at Tina.Luther@utsa.edu or (210) 458-2237 - Texas Celtic Music Network http://texcelt.org calendar@texcelt.org BEWARE OF ATTACHMENTS CARRYING VIRUSES! THIS LIST DOES NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ---- Back to Irish Aires Table of Contents To receive these postings via email, click HERE No Message is necessary.
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