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Gaelic Football Tournament!
This year we're proud to announce the First Annual 7-a-Side Gaelic Footbal Tournament!
The Mason-Dixon GFC will be running the tournament throughout the day. Click here for a pdf flyer.
No other sport offers you the thrill of soccer, the tactics of rugby and the skill of basketball!!
Please check out their website for more details.
Update for 2010!
This year the Frederick Celtic Festival has signed up with the American Cancer Society. A portion of our proceeds will be donated by the St. Andrew's Society of Mid-Maryland, to help further research in the fight against cancer.
Update for 2010!
The 2010 Frederick Celtic Festival will be held on May 8, 2010.
Once again, we will be at the Frederick Fairgrounds, in downtown Frederick, Maryland.
Our Site will be updated with information on our entertainment and the program throughout the coming months.
Check back for more updates!!
Bands -
A Rose Between Two Thorns
A Rose Between Two Thorns is a tight-knit family band located in Frederick, Maryland performing traditional and contemporary Celtic music.
That Raucous Crew
We've continued to expand our repertoire with INFECTIOUS songs from Ireland, Scotland and Canada, played and sung with enthusiasm and love. Recent new songs include THE AULD TRIANGLE, THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL and I KNOW MY LOVE.
Our current lineup consists of Jillian Trawick (vocals & tin whistle), Natalie Duggan (vocals & guitar), Doug Chapin (guitars), Greg Jividen (upright bass), Rick Johns (percussion & vocals), Bill Rhyner (vocals & guitar), Ben Trawick (vocals & mandolin) and Gary Hicks (vocals, accordion & melodica). Aaron Trawick mans the soundboard. Award-winning young Irish dancer Gabrielle McCoy graces many of our shows with her high-stepping energy. Ted and Susie Tomalewski often come to dance as well.
Moch Pryderi
Moch Pryderi (Welsh for “Pryderi’s Pigs”) is a six piece Celtic band firmly rooted in the traditional Brythonic music of Wales, and Brittany, interwoven with traditional music from Ireland, Scotland, Turkey, and the American-Appalachians. The band's instrumentation, Welsh triple harp, small and great pipes, Breton bombards, Welsh pibgorns, Celtic bouzouki, mandolin, banjo, flutes, whistles and percussion, as well as the band's vocal abilities, create a diversified pallet for Moch’s distinctive and haunting sound. The band has performed at most major festivals on the east coast, including The Celtic Classic, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Washington Folk Festival, the Potomac Celtic Festival, the Fredericksburg Welsh Festival, the Philadelphia Welsh Festival, the Historic Rugby Festival of British & Appalachian Culture, the Celtic Nations Heritage Festival in Lake Charles Louisiana, and the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C..
Rant & Roar
With only a Drum and Mandolin, Rant and Roar delivers ancient songs of the sea with the energy of a rockband. This music will energize and reinvigorate your soul. Grab some Grog, ale, whiskey, or anything with alcohol in it- and get bunch of friends and belt out some tunes with Rant and Roar. These are songs made by men, for manly men, to sing while they fight to get a living from the sea.
Please see our events schedule page for band schedules and we hope you enjoy the shows!!