Schedule | Irish Fair

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August 12, 2011

Cara Irish Pubs Main Stage

Time	Event
4:00 PM	Hounds of Finn
5:30 PM	The Sandcarvers
7:00 PM	The Tossers
8:00 PM	Legacy Fund/ Opening Ceremony
8:30 PM	Seanchai and the Unity Squad

Croagh Park

Time	Event
4:00 PM	HS Rugby
5:00 PM	Macalester Pipe Band
6:00 PM	Soccer

Crossroads Pub

Time	Event
3:00 PM	Céilí Dancing/Teach with Paul McCluskey, music by John McCormick and Amy Shaw
5:00 PM	Set Dancing/Teach with Tim McAndrew , music by Twin Cities Céilí Band
7:00 PM	Sixteen Hand Reel with Paul McCluskey
7:30 PM	Céilí Dance, with Mike Whalen, music by Barra
10:00 PM	Barra

Cultural Area & Pavilion

Time	Event
6:00 PM	Tea Room - Giggin' Silés
7:00 PM	Tea Room - Handful of Fun

Dance Stage

Time	Event
4:00 PM	Rince na Chroi with Two Tap Trio
5:00 PM	corda mór
6:00 PM	Mooncoin Céilí Dancers with Twin Cities Céilí Band
6:30 PM	St. Paul Irish Dancers
7:30 PM	Mississippi Riverdance

Eóin McKiernan Speakers Tent

Time	Event
6:30 PM	2010 Tall Ships Winner: Connor Carroll

Gateway Stage

Time	Event
3:00 PM	Macalester Pipe Band
3:30 PM	corda mór
4:00 PM	Rumgumption
5:00 PM	St. Paul Irish Dancers
5:30 PM	Center for Irish Music *
6:30 PM	Great Northern Irish Pipers Club
7:30 PM	Legacy
8:30 PM	Lóma mór

Irish on Grand Children’s Area/Celtic Junction Stage

Time	Event
3:00 PM	Young Fiddlers Association and the Vikarbyns Lilla Spelmanslag
4:00 PM	Young Fiddlers Association and the Vikarbyns Lilla Spelmanslag
4:30 PM	Center for Irish Music* 'Meet the Instruments'
5:00 PM	O'Shea Irish Dance
5:30 PM	Young Fiddlers Association and the Vikarbyns Lilla Spelmanslag
6:00 PM	Common Chord

Keegan’s Pub Traditional Music Tent

Time	Event
4:00 PM	Uilleann Pipes with Tom Klein
5:00 PM	Seisiún with Dave and Suzanne Rhees
7:00 PM	Uilleann Pipes with Patrick McCormick

Pub Stage

Time	Event
5:00 PM	Center for Irish Music Adult Ensemble*
6:30 PM	Hounds of Finn
8:00 PM	Wild Colonial Bhoys
10:00 PM	Wild Colonial Bhoys

River Stage

Time	Event
3:00 PM	Irish Got Talent Contest
6:00 PM	The HiBs
7:30 PM	Outside Track

August 13, 2011

Cara Irish Pubs Main Stage

Time	Event
11:00 AM	Center for Irish Music * Advanced Ensemble
12:30 PM	The HiBs
2:00 PM	Sweet Colleens
3:30 PM	Outside Track
5:00 PM	High Kings
7:00 PM	Wild Colonial Bhoys
8:30 PM	The Tossers

Celtic Chat Table (Located Riverside of Pavilion)

Time	Event
11:00 AM	Patrick O'Donnell- Irish Theater
12:00 PM	Michael Cotter- The Art of Storytelling
1:00 PM	Dan McGleno- Irish Breadmaking
2:00 PM	Terrance Schaeffer- The Dogs of Ireland
3:00 PM	Jim Rogers- Irish Books You Should Know

Croagh Park

Time	Event
10:00 AM	Sheep Herding with Flynn's Border Collies
10:30 AM	Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band
11:30 AM	Women's Rugby
12:30 PM	Sheep Herding with Flynn's Border Collies
1:30 PM	Men's Rugby
2:30 PM	Kids Races in Croagh Park
3:00 PM	MN Police Pipe Band
3:30 PM	Hurling
4:30 PM	Hurling for kids
5:00 PM	Sheep Herding with Flynn's Border Collies
6:30 PM	Gaelic Football- Kids Punt & Pass
7:00 PM	Gaelic Football

Crossroads Pub

Time	Event
10:00 AM	Run with the Celts Registration
11:00 AM	Forty Shades of Green
12:00 PM	Set Dancing/Teach with Tim McAndrew, music by Twin Cities Céilí Band
2:00 PM	Céilí Dance/ Teach with Paul McCluskey music by Forty Shades of Green
4:00 PM	Set Dance/ Teach with Tim McAndrew, music by Twin Cities Céilí Band
6:00 PM	Fitz Cup Piping Contest
7:30 PM	Set Dance Céilí with Tim McAndrew, music by Twin Cities Céilí Band
10:00 PM	Twin Cities Céilí Band

Cultural Area & Pavilion

Time	Event
10:15 AM	Tea Room - Handful of Fun 10:15
11:00 AM	Tea Room - Center for Irish Music*
12:30 PM	Tea Room - Giggin' Silés
1:30 PM	Tea Room - Beth Engelking
2:30 PM	Tea Room - Handful of Fun
3:30 PM	Tea Room - Giggin' Silés
4:30 PM	Tea Room - Chad McAnally
5:30 PM	Tea Room - Center for Irish Music*

Dance Stage

Time	Event
10:00 AM	St. Paul Irish Dancers
11:00 AM	Knocknagow Irish Dancers with Twin Cities Céilí Band
11:30 AM	Rince na Chroi with Two Tap Trio
12:30 PM	corda mór
1:30 PM	O'Shea Irish Dance
2:00 PM	St. Paul Irish Dancers
3:00 PM	Knocknagow Irish Dancers with Twin Cities Céilí Band
3:30 PM	Rince na Chroi with Two Tap Trio
4:30 PM	corda mór
5:30 PM	O'Shea Irish Dance
6:00 PM	Green Fire Irish Dancers
7:30 PM	Get Up Your Irish*

Eóin McKiernan Speakers Tent

Time	Event
11:00 AM	Sean Kay- Celtic Revival: The Rise, Fall, and Renewal of Global Ireland
12:00 PM	John Soderberg - The Archeology of Ireland
1:00 PM	Will Kenny - The Irish Language
2:00 PM	Carol McCormick, Storyteller- Irish Imagination
3:00 PM	John Dingley- The Biggest Pack of Lies You Ever Heard
4:00 PM	Celtic Players- Tribute to the Easter Rising
5:00 PM	Michael Cotter- Stories from a Third Generation Irish Farmer

Gateway Stage

Time	Event
11:00 AM	O'Shea Irish Dance
11:30 AM	The Eddies
12:30 PM	Green Fire Irish Dancers
1:00 PM	Tom Dahill and Ginny Johnson
2:00 PM	Rince na Chroi
2:30 PM	Locklin Road
3:30 PM	Irish Got Talent 1st Place Winner
4:30 PM	IMDA Best Legs in a Kilt Contest
6:00 PM	The Langer's Ball
7:00 PM	corda mór
7:30 PM	Paddywagon

Irish Music and Dance Association Music Workshop Tent

Time	Event
12:00 PM	Danielle Enblom with Dunquin- Music and Dance, Putting it all together
1:00 PM	Norah Rendell- Beginner Whistle Tunes and Songs from Cork & Kerry
2:00 PM	Brian Miller- Interactive MN Irish Lumberjack Songs
3:00 PM	Todd Menton- Goats and Throats, The Art of Singing with the Bodhran
4:00 PM	Danielle Enblom- Fiddles
5:00 PM	Chad McAnally- The Music of Turlough O'Carolan for all Instruments
6:00 PM	Daithi Sproule- Guitar Tuning in Irish Song Arrangement

Irish on Grand Children’s Area/Celtic Junction Stage

Time	Event
10:30 AM	O'Shea Irish Dance
11:00 AM	Dancing with Danielle Enblom
11:30 AM	Center for Irish Music
12:00 PM	Meet the Instruments- Whistles, Fiddles, and Bodhrans. Center for Irish Music
12:30 PM	Tir na nOg Theater- Taoscan MacLiath and The Magic Bees
1:00 PM	Native Dog Show and Parade
1:30 PM	Irish Step Dancing Lessons with Rince na Chroi School of Irish Dance
2:00 PM	Trasna na dTonnta
2:30 PM	Kids Races in Croagh Park
3:00 PM	Storytelling with Carol McCormick
3:30 PM	Dancing with Danielle Enblom
4:00 PM	Native Dog Show and Parade
4:30 PM	Storytelling with Carol McCormick
5:00 PM	Dancing with Danielle Enblom
5:30 PM	Around we go! Céilí Dancing for the Wee Ones with Suin Swann

Keegan’s Pub Traditional Music Tent

Time	Event
11:00 AM	Seisiún with Cory Froehlich, Dave and Suzanne Rhees
1:00 PM	Uilleann Pipes with Patrick McCormick
2:00 PM	Singing Seisiún
3:00 PM	Tom Dahill and Ginny Johnson
4:00 PM	Seisiún with Local Uilleann Pipers
5:00 PM	Uilleann Pipes with Tom Klein
6:00 PM	Learners Seisiún Jason Novak

Pub Stage

Time	Event
12:00 PM	Irish Got Talent 2nd Place Winner
1:30 PM	Trivia
3:00 PM	The Langer's Ball
4:30 PM	Will Harrison
6:30 PM	Poitin
8:00 PM	The Tim Malloys
10:00 PM	The Tim Malloys

River Stage

Time	Event
10:30 AM	Locklin Road
12:00 PM	Rumgumption
1:30 PM	Dirty Hurlers
3:00 PM	Poitin
4:30 PM	St. Dominic's Trio
6:00 PM	Hounds of Finn
7:30 PM	Two Tap Trio

August 14, 2011

Cara Irish Pubs Main Stage

Time	Event
9:00 AM	Mass
10:30 AM	Legacy Grants
11:00 AM	McInnis' Kitchen
12:30 PM	Katie McMahon
2:00 PM	High Kings
4:00 PM	Outside Track
5:00 PM	Raffle Drawing
5:30 PM	Altan
6:45 PM	Scattering

Celtic Chat Table (Located Riverside of Pavilion)

Time	Event
11:00 AM	Tim Campbell- State of the Peace Process Today
12:00 PM	Jim Brooks- Writing an Irish Newspaper
1:00 PM	Brooks Doherty- Anything You Have Wanted to Know about James Joyce
2:00 PM	David Zander- The Art of Storytelling
3:00 PM	Tom Klein- History of the Uilleann Pipes

Croagh Park

Time	Event
11:00 AM	Sheep Herding with Flynn's Border Collies
12:00 PM	Minnesota State Fire Service Memorial Pipe Band
12:30 PM	Gaelic Football
1:30 PM	Football for Kids
2:00 PM	Sheep Herding with Flynn's Border Collies
2:30 PM	Men's Rugby
3:30 PM	Kid's Races in Croagh Park
4:00 PM	Sheep Herding with Flynn's Border Collies
4:30 PM	Hurling
5:30 PM	Hurling for kids
6:00 PM	Sheep Herding with Flynn's Border Collies

Crossroads Pub

Time	Event
11:00 AM	Céilí Dance with Mike Whalen, music by Tom Dahill and Ginny Johnson
1:00 PM	Two-Hand and Set Dancing with Karen Cieminski, music by Tom Dahill and Ginny Johnson
2:00 PM	Sean nós and Set Dancing with Danielle Emblom
3:00 PM	Céilí Dance Céilí with Paul McCluskey, music by Laughing Water

Cultural Area & Pavilion

Time	Event
11:00 AM	Tea Room - Handful of Fun
12:00 PM	Tea Room - Chad McAnally
1:00 PM	Tea Room - Giggin' Silés
2:00 PM	Tea Room - Beth Engelking
3:00 PM	Tea Room - Handful of Fun

Dance Stage

Time	Event
10:00 AM	North Star School of Irish Dance
11:00 AM	Shamrock School of Irish Dance
12:00 PM	corda mór
1:00 PM	Rince Nua Irish Dance
1:30 PM	O'Shea Irish Dance
2:00 PM	St. Paul Irish Dancers
2:30 PM	Mooncoin Céilí Dancers with Twin Cities Céilí Band
3:00 PM	corda mór
4:00 PM	Shamrock School of Irish Dance
5:00 PM	Rince Nua Irish Dance

Eóin McKiernan Speakers Tent

Time	Event
11:00 AM	Beth Mullinax- Irish Genealogy
12:00 PM	Sean Kay- Celtic Revival: The Rise, Fall, and Renewal of Global Ireland
1:00 PM	Carol McCormick: Storyteller-Irish at Heart
2:00 PM	Jim Roger- Quiet Man
3:00 PM	Brooks Doherty- The Rise and Fall of Dublin's Pike
4:00 PM	David Zander: The Art of Storytelling- The Stories of Cuchulain & Finn McCool

Gateway Stage

Time	Event
10:00 AM	St. Paul Irish Dancers
10:30 AM	Legacy
11:30 AM	MN Scottish Celtic Dance Association
12:00 PM	Cooking Demo- Corks Irish Pub
1:00 PM	Shamrock School of Irish Dance
1:30 PM	Center for Irish Music *
2:30 PM	O'Shea Irish Dance
2:30 PM	O'Shea Irish Dance
3:00 PM	The Langer's Ball
4:00 PM	Lóma mór Irish Dance Club
4:30 PM	Tom Dahill and Ginny Johnson

Irish Music and Dance Association Music Workshop Tent

Time	Event
11:00 AM	Norah Rendell- Interactive Demo & Introduction to Irish Flute
12:00 PM	Legacy- Where's O'Waldo: a musical tour of place names in Irish song
1:00 PM	Daithi Sproule- Learn a Gaelic Song
2:00 PM	Chad McAnally- Irish Harp, A Living Symbol
3:00 PM	Brian Miller- Interactive MN Irish Lumberjack Songs
4:00 PM	Todd Menton- Beyond the Jar: Expanding the Pub Songbook
5:00 PM	Traditional Singers Club- The Water is Wide: Songs about Rivers, Lakes and Oceans

Irish on Grand Children’s Area/Celtic Junction Stage

Time	Event
11:00 AM	The Okee Dokee Brothers
12:00 PM	Center for Irish Music
12:30 PM	St. Paul Irish Dancers
1:00 PM	Native Dog Show and Parade
1:30 PM	The Okee Dokee Brothers
2:30 PM	Center for Irish Music- Singing Sweeties
3:00 PM	Storytelling with Carol McCormick
3:30 PM	Kids Races in Croagh Park
4:00 PM	Meet the Instruments- Whistles, Fiddles, and Bodhrans. Center for Irish Music
5:00 PM	Storytelling with Carol McCormick

Keegan’s Pub Traditional Music Tent

Time	Event
11:00 AM	Seisiún with the HiBs
1:00 PM	Uilleann Pipes with Pat and Karen Cook-Cannady
2:00 PM	Tom Dahill and Ginny Johnson
3:00 PM	Seisiún with Tom Juenemann
5:00 PM	Uilleann Pipes with Pat and Karen Cook-Cannady

Pub Stage

Time	Event
12:00 PM	Trivia
1:30 PM	Will Harrison
3:30 PM	The Eddies
5:00 PM	Rumgumption

River Stage

Time	Event
11:30 AM	Paddywagon
1:00 PM	Two Tap Trio
2:30 PM	Reverse Cowboy
4:00 PM	Wild Colonial Bhoys
5:30 PM	Tim Malloys