Irish Fair of Minnesota

Friday, August 08th

3:00 am - Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band
5:30 am - Brian Boru Irish Pipeband March and Welcome Ceremony

Cara Irish Pubs Main Stage

4:00 pm - The Eddies
5:30 pm - Romantica
7:00 pm - Scythian
8:30 pm - Flogging Molly

Croagh Park

3:00 pm - Sheep Herding Demonstration - O'Reilly's Border Collies (45 min)
4:00 pm - High School Rugby
5:00 pm - Macalester Pipe Band March
6:00 pm - Sheep Herding Demonstration - O'Reilly's Border Collies
6:30 pm - Irish Cup Soccer Match
8:00 pm - Sheep Herding Demonstration - O'Reilly's Border Collies

Crossroads Tent/Dubliner Dance Area

3:30 pm - Ceili class - Paul McCluskey
4:30 pm - Ceili class - Ger Butler
5:30 pm - Set class - Tim McAndrew
7:30 pm - Ceili, called by Mike Whalen, music by Barra
10:00 pm - Wild Colonial Bhoys

Cultural Area Pavilion

6:00 pm - Giggin' Siles (Tea Room)
6:30 pm - Famine Ship - Journey to America
7:00 pm - Handful of Fun (Tea Room)

Eóin McKiernan Speaker's Tent

5:30 pm - Nick Wolf - The 1867 Fenian Rising
6:30 pm - Nick Wolf - Learning the Irish Language

Holiday Dance Tent

3:00 pm - Scoil na dTri Irish Dance Academy
4:00 pm - corda mor
4:30 pm - Rince na Chroi
5:30 pm - Mooncoin Ceili Dancers acc by Legacy
6:00 pm - O'Shea Irish Dance
6:30 pm - Saint Paul Irish Dancers
7:30 pm - Mississippi Riverdance - More than 50 of the best dancers from 5 schools.

IMDA Workshop Tent

6:00 pm - Bodhran: The Irish Drum - Dave Cammack
7:00 pm - Irish Lumberjack Songs of Minnesota - Brian Miller

Irish Indeed! Children's Area

3:30 pm - Songs & Magic - Tom & Debbie O'Carroll
4:30 pm - Kids Dance Lesson - Scoil na dTr
5:00 pm - Songs & Games - Ross Sutter
6:00 pm - Songs & Magic - Tom & Debbie O'Carroll (45 min)

Jake O'Connor's River Stage

3:00 pm - Irish Fair Idol Contest
3:30 pm - Irish Fair Idol Contest
4:00 pm - Irish Fair Idol Contest
4:30 pm - Irish Fair Idol Contest
5:00 pm - Irish Fair Idol Contest
5:30 pm - Macalester Pipeband March and Welcome Ceremony
6:00 pm - Laura and the Lads
7:30 pm - The Tannahill Weavers

Keegan's Piper & Seisiun Tent

4:30 pm - Youth/Beginners Seisiun
5:00 pm - Youth/Beginners Seisiun
6:00 pm - Master Piper
6:30 pm - Dancing with Uilleann Pipes
7:30 pm - Seisiún
8:00 pm - Seisiún
8:30 pm - Seisiún
10:00 pm - Grand Seisiún (Pub Tent)

Walser Gateway Stage

3:00 pm - Macalester Pipe Band
4:00 pm - Barra
5:00 pm - Great Northern Irish Piper's Club
6:00 pm - Center for Irish Music
6:50 pm - Ross Sutter
7:45 pm - Lost in the Harbour

Saturday, August 09th

11:00 am - Jim Rogers - The Irish in American Sports

Cara Irish Pubs Main Stage

11:15 am - McInnis' Kitchen
1:00 pm - Stephen's Green
2:30 pm - The Tannahill Weavers
4:00 pm - Sweet Colleens
5:30 pm - The Elders
6:45 pm - Dance Ensemble
7:30 pm - Wild Colonial Bhoys
8:45 pm - Flogging Molly

Croagh Park

10:00 am - Sheep Herding Demonstration - O'Reilly's Border Collies
10:30 am - Men's Rugby Exhibition
11:30 am - Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band
12:00 pm - Grand March with Brian Boru Pipe Band
12:30 pm - Sheep Herding Demonstration - O'Reilly's Border Collies
1:00 pm - Tug of War Exhibition
1:00 pm - Boxing Match (Boxing Tent)
1:30 pm - Gaelic Football Exhibition Match
2:30 pm - Gaelic Football for Kids - Your Chance to Punt and Pass
3:00 pm - Kids Races - Ages 3-10 are welcome
3:30 pm - Tug of War Exhibition
3:30 pm - Boxing Match (Boxing Tent)
4:00 pm - Sheep Herding Demonstration - O'Reilly's Border Collies
4:30 pm - Hurling Exhibition Match
5:30 pm - Hurling for Kids - Your Chance to Knock the Sliotar
6:00 pm - Women's Rugby Exhibition
6:30 pm - Boxing Match (Boxing Tent)
7:00 pm - Sheep Herding Demonstration - O'Reilly's Border Collies

Crossroads Tent/Dubliner Dance Area

10:30 am - Ceili class, Mooncoin Ceili Dancers (Amy Hokanson)
11:30 am - Ceili class, Linda Doran
12:30 pm - Set class, Ger Butler
1:45 pm - Sean Nos class, Ger Butler
2:30 pm - Ceili, set and ceili dancing, music by TCCB
4:30 pm - Set class, Ger Butler
5:45 pm - Sean Nos class, Ger Butler
7:00 pm - Set ceili, called by Tim McAndrew and Ger Butler, music by The HiBs
10:00 pm - The Tannahill Weavers

Cultural Area Pavilion

10:30 am - Handful of Fun (Tea Room)
11:00 am - Tipper Road (Tea Room)
11:30 am - Songs/Tunes of N. Ireland (Tea Room)
12:00 pm - Giggin' Siles (Tea Room)
12:30 pm - Wake Room - Off You Go
1:00 pm - Famine Ship - Journey to America
1:30 pm - Beth Engelking - Flute (Tea Room)
2:00 pm - Songs/Tunes of N. Ireland (Tea Room)
2:30 pm - Handful of Fun (Tea Room)
3:00 pm - Poteen Still / Holy Well
3:30 pm - Famine Ship - Journey to America
4:00 pm - Giggin' Siles (Tea Room)
4:30 pm - Wake Room - Off You Go
5:00 pm - Poteen Still / Holy Well
5:30 pm - Center for Irish Music (Tea Room)

Eóin McKiernan Speaker's Tent

11:00 am - Susan Hartfiel - Ancient Celtic Holidays
12:00 pm - Nick Wolf - Early Irish Emigration to America, 1650-1830
1:00 pm - John Dingley - Celtic Humor
2:00 pm - Doug Jones - Cruel Voyage: Famine Ship Diaries
3:00 pm - Beth Mullinax - Irish Geneology
4:00 pm - Bill Meulemans - Hope & Hate: Protestants and Catholics in the New Northern Ireland
5:00 pm - Tim Campbell - The Life of St. Patrick
6:00 pm - Patrick O'Donnell - Tyrone Guthrie and the Irish Theater

Holiday Dance Tent

10:00 am - Saint Paul Irish Dancers
11:00 am - Green Fire
11:30 am - corda mor
12:30 pm - Knocknagow Irish Dancers acc by Legacy
1:00 pm - Rince na Chroi
2:00 pm - Knocknagow Irish Dancers acc by Legacy
2:30 pm - Saint Paul Irish Dancers
3:30 pm - corda mor
4:00 pm - Rince na Chroi
5:00 pm - O'Shea Irish Dance
6:00 pm - Celtic Fire

IMDA Workshop Tent

11:00 am - Farewells: Music of Partings From People and Places - Dunquin
12:30 pm - Meet the Instruments - Center for Irish Music
1:30 pm - Learn a Song in Gaelic - Dith Sproule
2:30 pm - Irish Lumberjack Songs of Minnesota - Brian Miller
3:30 pm - Songs of Love, Work and Death - The Eddies
4:30 pm - The Small Pipes - Colin Melville (Tannahill Weavers)
5:30 pm - A Nation Once Again: The Spirit of Irish Rebel Songs - Nick Coleman

Irish Indeed! Children's Area

10:30 am - Songs & Magic - Tom & Debbie O'Carroll (45 min)
11:30 am - Songs & Games - Ross Sutter
12:30 pm - Storytelling - Carol McCormick
1:00 pm - Cultural Presentation for Kids - Anna Lethert and Danielle Enblom
1:30 pm - Native Dogs Show
2:00 pm - Kids Dance Lesson - O'Shea Irish Dance
2:30 pm - Center for Irish Music
3:00 pm - Meet the Insturments - Whistles, Fiddles and Bodhrans for Kids to Try
3:30 pm - Songs & Magic - Tom & Debbie O'Carroll
4:30 pm - Songs & Games - Ross Sutter
5:30 pm - Irish Giant Sarah MacCoul tells the story of Finn MacCoul (45 min)

Jake O'Connor's River Stage

10:00 am - Legacy
11:00 am - MacKenzie & Miller
12:30 pm - The Eddies
1:45 pm - St. Dominic's Trio
3:00 pm - Ring of Kerry
4:30 pm - The HiBs
6:00 pm - Irish Fair Idol Contest Winner
7:30 pm - Stephen's Green

Keegan's Piper & Seisiun Tent

11:00 am - Master Piper
11:30 am - Dancing with Uilleann Pipes
12:30 pm - Local Pipers: Solos and Ensembles
1:00 pm - Master Piper
1:30 pm - Dancing with Uilleann Pipes
2:30 pm - Seisiún
3:00 pm - Seisiún
3:30 pm - Seisiún
4:30 pm - Local Pipers: Solos and Ensembles
5:00 pm - Master Piper
5:30 pm - Dancing with Uilleann Pipes
6:30 pm - Seisiún
7:00 pm - Seisiún
7:30 pm - Seisiún
10:00 pm - Grand Seisiún (Pub Tent)

Sean T. Kelly Lore & More Tent

11:00 am - John Gleeson - Pull Up to the Fire
12:00 pm - Nancy Donoval - It's All True! Celtic Myths and Irish Legends
1:00 pm - Michael Cotter - Stories of an Irish Farmer
2:00 pm - Carol McCormick - Magical Tales and Songs
3:00 pm - David Zander - Celtic Irish Myths, Fairytales and Legends
4:00 pm - Nancy Donoval - Storytelling Workshop: What's Your Story?
5:00 pm - Jeanne O'Gorman - Red, White, Blue, Green and the Black Hills Gold
6:00 pm - Eammon O'Neill - Emigration Stories

Walser Gateway Stage

10:00 am - Great Northern Irish Piper's Club
11:00 am - Rince na Chroi
12:00 pm - Grand March and Curtin-Conway Award Ceremony
12:30 pm - Saint Paul Irish Dancers
1:00 pm - Locklin Road
2:00 pm - Green Fire
3:00 pm - Ross Sutter
4:00 pm - Lost in the Harbour
5:00 pm - corda mor
5:30 pm - The Eddies
6:30 pm - Legacy

Sunday, August 10th

1:00 am - Milwaukee Irish Arts - "The Fiver and the Troubador"
2:00 am - Out of the Basement Players - "The Dead" by James Joyce, an adaptation

Cara Irish Pubs Main Stage

9:00 am - Mass celebrated by Monsignor Aloysius Callaghan
10:15 am - Minnesota Police Pipe Band and Welcome Ceremony
11:00 am - Center for Irish Music
12:30 pm - Ring of Kerry
2:00 pm - The Fuchsia Band
3:30 pm - The Tannahill Weavers
5:00 pm - The Belfast Cowboys
6:15 pm - The Elders
7:30 pm - Scattering Set

Centennial Showboat

12:00 pm - Tir na nig - Children's Irish Theater
1:00 pm - Milwaukee Irish Arts -"The Importance of Being Oscar", a one man Oscar Wilde
2:00 pm - Out of the Basement Players - An Irish Assortment: Selected Monologues
3:00 pm - Lex-Ham Community Theater -"Hue and Cry" by Deirdre Kinahan
4:00 pm - Kay Martinovich- Scenes from Brian Freil, Hugh Leonard and more

Croagh Park

10:30 am - Sheep Herding Demonstration - O'Reilly's Border Collies
11:00 am - Women's Rugby Exhibition
11:30 am - Boxing Match (Boxing Tent)
12:00 pm - Sheep Herding Demonstration - O'Reilly's Border Collies
12:30 pm - Hurling Exhibition Match
1:30 pm - Hurling for Kids - Your Chance to Knock the Sliotar
2:00 pm - Boxing Match (Boxing Tent)
2:00 pm - Kids Races - Ages 3-10 are welcome
2:30 pm - Sheep Herding Demonstration - O'Reilly's Border Collies
3:00 pm - Gaelic Football Exhibition Match
4:00 pm - Gaelic Football for Kids - Your Chance to Punt and Pass
4:30 pm - Men's Rugby Exhibition
5:30 pm - Sheep Herding Demonstration - O'Reilly's Border Collies

Crossroads Tent/Dubliner Dance Area

11:00 am - Ceili class, Ed Koehne and Elaine Murray
12:00 pm - Ceili class, Mike Whalen
1:00 pm - Set class, Ger Butler
2:15 pm - Two-hand class, Karen Cieminski
2:45 pm - Sean Nos class, Ger Butler
4:00 pm - Ceili, called by Paul McCluskey, music by Two Tap Trio

Cultural Area Pavilion

11:00 am - Handful of Fun (Tea Room)
11:30 am - Poteen Still / Holy Well
12:00 pm - Giggin' Siles (Tea Room)
12:30 pm - Wake Room - Off You Go
1:00 pm - Famine Ship - Journey to America
1:30 pm - Beth Engelking - Flute (Tea Room)
2:00 pm - Songs/Tunes of N. Ireland (Tea Room)
2:30 pm - Famine Ship - Journey to America
3:00 pm - Handful of Fun (Tea Room)
3:30 pm - Poteen Still / Holy Well
4:00 pm - Giggin' Siles (Tea Room)
4:30 pm - Wake Room - Off You Go

Eóin McKiernan Speaker's Tent

11:30 am - Will Kenny - Learning the Irish Language
12:30 pm - Ethna McKiernan - Irish Poetry
1:30 pm - Beth Mullinax - Irish Geneology
2:30 pm - Dan Klecko McGlyno - History of Irish Breadmaking
3:30 pm - Doug Jones - Cruel Voyage; Famine Ship Diaries
4:30 pm - Tim Campbell - The Life of St. Patrick

Holiday Dance Tent

10:30 am - corda mor
11:00 am - Shamrock School of Irish Dance
12:00 pm - Biddies Galore/Our Lady of the Lakes
1:00 pm - Scoil na dTri Irish Dance Academy
2:00 pm - Mooncoin Ceili Dancers acc by Legacy
2:30 pm - Flanagan Irish Dancers
3:30 pm - Celtic Fire
4:00 pm - Shamrock School of Irish Dance
5:00 pm - Scoil na dTri Irish Dance Academy

IMDA Workshop Tent

11:00 am - Meet the Instruments - Center for Irish Music
12:00 pm - ABC's of an Irish Music Seisiún - Tom Juenemann & Friends
1:00 pm - The Irish Diaspora in Song and Story - Tom O'Carroll
2:00 pm - Celtic Crossroads for Stringed Instruments: The Hammered Dulcimer and More - Paul Imholte
3:00 pm - Irish Influence in Appalachian Songs - Traditional Singer Club
4:00 pm - Songs of Paddy Abroad and Soldiering! - Mirtin de Cogin (The Fuchsia Band)
5:00 pm - Fiddle Workshop - John Martin (Tannahill Weavers)

Irish Indeed! Children's Area

11:00 am - Songs & Magic - Tom & Debbie O'Carroll
12:00 pm - Kids Dance Lesson - Shamrock School of Irish Dance
12:30 pm - Songs & Games - Ross Sutter
1:00 pm - Cultural Presentation for Kids - Anna Lethert and Danielle Enblom
1:30 pm - Native Dogs Show
2:00 pm - Songs & Magic - Tom & Debbie O'Carroll
2:30 pm - (In Croagh Park: Kids Races - Ages 3-10 are welcome)
3:00 pm - Storytelling - Carol McCormick
3:30 pm - Kids Dance Lesson - Scoil na dTri Irish Dance Academy
4:00 pm - Songs & Games - Ross Sutter
5:00 pm - Irish Giant Sarah MacCoul tells the story of Finn MacCoul (45 min)

Jake O'Connor's River Stage

11:30 am - McInnis' Kitchen
1:00 pm - Sweet Colleens
2:30 pm - The HiBs
4:00 pm - Stephen's Green
5:30 pm - Wild Colonial Bhoys

Keegan's Piper & Seisiun Tent

11:00 am - Master Piper
11:30 am - Dancing with Uilleann Pipes
12:30 pm - Local Pipers: Solos and Ensembles
1:00 pm - Master Piper
1:30 pm - Dancing with Uilleann Pipes
2:00 pm - Seisiún
2:30 pm - Seisiún
3:00 pm - Seisiún
3:30 pm - Local Pipers: Solos and Ensembles
4:00 pm - Master Piper
4:30 pm - Dancing with Uilleann Pipes
5:30 pm - Seisiún
6:00 pm - Seisiún
6:15 pm - Seisiún

Sean T. Kelly Lore & More Tent

11:30 am - Eammon O'Neill - Emigration Stories
12:30 pm - Nan Montgomery - Wild Irish Women
1:30 pm - Carol McCormick - Magical Tales and Songs
2:30 pm - John Gleeson - Pull Up to the Fire
3:30 pm - Michael Cotter - Stories of an Irish Farmer
4:30 pm - David Zander - Celtic Irish Myths, Fairytales and Legends

Walser Gateway Stage

10:30 am - Scoil na d'Tri Irish Dance Academy
11:00 am - Minnesota Police Pipe Band
11:30 am - corda mor
12:00 pm - Rince na Chroi
12:30 pm - The Langer's Ball
1:30 pm - Ross Sutter
2:30 pm - Garrigan's Quarrel
3:30 pm - McInnis' Kitchen
4:30 pm - The Langer's Ball
5:30 pm - Shamrock School of Irish Dance