The 2010 annual CCE IRISH FOLK FESTIVAL

The 2010 annual CCE IRISH FOLK FESTIVAL, sponsored by the CCE O’Neill Malcom Branch with support from the Fairfax City Commission on the Arts, will take place on Saturday, September 25th in historic downtown Fairfax City from noon to 6pm.

FREE Admission!

There will be live traditional Irish music and dance on the Auld Shebeen pub stage and downstairs cellar, an outside Showmobile, and The Space in the Old Town Fairfax Plaza (North Street, between Chain Bridge Road & University Blvd). There will be live music in several other small venues in the Fairfax downtown area; a session area; and a children’s program as well as crafts and a photography exhibit. Rain or shine.

Here's Festival information for 2009: (Check back soon for this years performers and schedules)

CLICK HERE to see a full Festival Schedule for all of the Performing Venues.

CLICK HERE for site map and Driving Directions

LIZ CARROLL, National Heritage Award Winner (and All Ireland Champion fiddler) will be performing with button accordion virtuoso and All-Ireland Champ BILLY McCOMISKEY.

Four stages will present some of the area’s finest musicians and dancers (see list below) along with visiting performers, All Ireland Champion fiddler and the Irish Echo's Top Trad Artist for 2008, BRIAN CONWAY, flute and piano expert BRENDAN DOLAN , and our own All-Ireland Champion, fiddler BRENDAN MULVIHILL with BRIAN GAFFNEY

Make plans now to attend what promises to be the best Traditional Irish Music and Dance Festival south of the Catskills!

There will also be a traditional Irish crafts display including Harp maker Rick Kemper, photographers Denny Lynch and Susan Day, an Irish book sale, Irish genealogy and ancestry search, The House of Musical Traditions, and more…

A Children’s Program

Music Session All Day

Great Food

Stage performances from Noon-6:00PM

Ceili to follow in The Cellar of The Auld Shebeen
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Featuring music by Shepherd's Pie & Friends!

Partial List of Performers

Beth Benedetto	Billy McComiskey & Liz Carroll		Brendan Mulvihill & Brian Gaffney	Celtic Marc	Brian Conway & Brendan Dolan
Old Bay Ceili Band	Irish Breakfast Band	Half-Seas Over	Shepherd's Pie	Dirty Pints	Flying Cows of Ventry
The Scones	Irish Inn Mates	Hedge School Teens	Karen Ashbrook & Paul Oorts	Sior-Og	Bog Band

DANCE GROUPS

Calico Cloggers	Culkin School of Irish Dance	Happy Feet Cloggers	Shannon Dunne	Boyle School
CCE Dancers	GWCC dancers	O'Neill-James School	Tuesday Night Ceili Club	Teelin Irish Dance Company