Georgia Celtic Camp
A day camp in Alpharetta, Georgia for Ages 4-15yrs
June 16th - 20th
Irish Music, Dance, Art, Sports and History!
www.atlantajuniorceiliband.com or 678-372-9494
Instruction in Irish Fiddle, Irish Flute, Irish Step Dance, Gaelic Football, Whistle, Song, Irish Language while learning about Celtic History, Culture, Music, Dance and Arts; $250 for the week

We'd like to invite you and your child to consider joining us this summer for a week of Celtic music, dance and fun. The Georgia Celtic Camp is a day camp for students ages 4-15 years old and focuses on the study of Irish music, dance, sport, and cultural experiences. Sponsored by The Atlanta Irish Music School, the premiere Irish music school in Metro Atlanta, you don't have be Irish or Scottish to join us for a week of music and dance fun!

Celtic Camp promotes and fosters a caring environment where students work in small group classes to study all aspects of Celtic culture. Students 7-15 yrs will have the opportunity to choose a focus class for the week: Fiddle, Flute, Concertina, Song and Irish Dance. All students will take Whistle, Gaelic football and introduction to Ceili Dance. A special class entitled, Wee Ones, is offered for children 4-6 years old and will focus on Celtic Arts and Crafts, Storytelling, Dance, Song, Celtic Drumming and other fun activities.

Upcoming Celtic Events in the Atlanta Area

Caledonia Swing wants to let everyone know that two of the band's members, Ken Shearer on guitar and Hollis Landrum on hammer dulcimer, will be performing at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, Mothers Day (May 11).

Riverdance at the fabulous Fox Theatre, May 13-18, $25-62

the McLauchlans are playing at McCracken’s Celtic Firehouse Pub, Marietta, May 23-24

Póg will be playing at Paddy's Pub at Chateau Élan, 100 Rue Charlemagne, Braselton, Fri & Sat, June 6-7, 2008, 9 - Midnight

Blairsville Scottish Festival & Highland Games, Blairsville, GA, June 14-15, 2008 (Sat & Sun)

the McLauchlans are playing at McCracken’s Celtic Firehouse Pub, Marietta, June 20-21

Póg will be playing at Limerick Junction, Fri & Sat, June 27-28, 2008, 9:30PM - 1:30

Brian Sullivan's Music, Magic and Malted Beverages Tour of Ireland! June 28-July 7. Explore Southern Ireland to find stunning landscapes, fantastic food and drink and wonderful people. Includes visits to the Jameson Whiskey Distillery, Drombeg Stone Circle, Kinsale, Killarney and Dingle Peninsula, including the Blasket Islands! Contact Logan at brian@emeraldrose.com

Coming Weeks   Past Events

Music Event Note: The events posted in this schedule are oriented toward Celtic music and society. Many of the fine pubs and venues listed, even though Celtic or Irish, offer other great entertainment covering the full range of the music space, so please visit their official sites for updates and details.

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Going to a summer camp or festival?

The IMT club has a limited number of bodhrans (some tunables), made by Vignoles/Claddagh Bodhrans. Prices vary and are negotiable. We also have tune books and CD's (Foinn I , II) - great large Irish music posters for mother, whistles and instruction books. Contact Kathleen at 404-949-3187, or at ceolcait@bellsouth.net

Irish Set Dancing

Lively energetic traditional Irish social dances. No partner needed - Beginners welcome - All dances taught. Live music when we can get it! Bring a water bottle! $5 Donation. Most Sundays, 3 to 5PM beginning Jan 28th at the The MASK Center. Studio 8. Little 5 Points Community Center, 1083 Austin Ave, Atlanta, near the Inman Park MARTA Station. Enter building from the back parking lot through blue colored door, ground floor, turn left at the hallway. The MASK Center is down the hall on right. Contact Susan Davis and Scott Russell to confirm before coming to event, 404- 377-6242, sdavis@mindspring.com. Sponsored by Irish Music Traditions

Sessions, Regular Music & Dance

Thistle & Shamrock
Fiona Ritchie
Join award-winning host Fiona Ritchie to explore the evolving Celtic musical traditions of Europe and North America. As Thistle surveys traditional Celtic music it also leads you to explore more distant landscapes and genres, investigating Celtic influences in World and contemporary music. Back on Atlanta's WABE NPR 90.1FM, Fridays, 9-10PM

WRFG's Celtic Show (Sundays from 5 to 7 pm), and the rest of the station's wonderful programming, is now broadcasting to the entire metro Atlanta area (and more) at 100,000 watts from our new tower/ transmitter. No more black out areas... no more flakey reception just a few miles NE of station. Try it for yourself: 89.3 FM! Available in streaming audio at: http://www.wrfg.org

"...a gathering of Irish traditional musicians for the purpose of celebrating their common interest in the music by playing it together in a relaxed, informal setting, while in the process generally beefing up the mystical cultural mantra that hums along uninterruptedly beneath all manifestations of Irishness worldwide."  --Barry Foy

Atlanta Area

The Alpharetta Session-- an Advanced Irish Session to be held at The Loafing Leprechaun at Windward Parkway (exit 11) the 2nd and 4th Saturday evening of each month from 6:30-9PM. This is a smoke free pub and will offer a drink tab and appetizers to musicians.

A Beginning/ Intermediate Session is held at The Harp Irish Pub, 1st and 3rd Sundays from 5-7PM; family friendly. Bring your instrument and your tunes! This new session is not a teaching session and not associated with any formal organization. Just a venue for working your tunes up to speed and a place to swap new tunes and musical ideas. For more info, contact Gary White. The Harp also provides Live Music every Friday & Saturday, 9PM, although many sessions are not Celtic..

Celtic Session at Manuel's Tavern, Second Sunday each month. The session normally start around 3:30 to 4PM.

Auburn Area

Irish musicians and dancers meet for session in the Auburn area on the second Tuesday of each month.  Welcoming to friends, fans of the culture and Irish dancers, this session apparently attracts folks from hours away - that's got to be good! This groups has met in the past at the Auburn Alehouse and the Blue Bagel. The current location is pending. For details and directions contact: miller.scott2@charter.net

Huntsville Area

Members of the Huntsville and Decatur Celtic music community host regular public Celtic session and tuneplay on the first Tuesday of every month at the Corner Grill and Pub in Huntsville. For details and directions, contact: gfband@hiwaay.net.

SlipJig Celtic band members and friends host a weekly session on Thursday nights at Finnegan's Pub on South Parkway in Huntsville, 7:30-10:30. Tunes and songs. Always a fine time!  Skilled players, interested on-lookers, and innocent by-standers are welcome! For additional information: Phil@slipjigband.com.

Birmingham Area

Regular Irish music session is offered on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month from 7:00pm - 10:00pm at CoolBeans in Homewood right next to New York Pizza and Broadway BBQ. CoolBeans Coffee House - is a non-smoking, family friendly environment. Musicians and fans welcome. For more details contact, Marty Bostick.

Mobile Area

Irish Music Session hosted by members of Mithril in the Fairhope area on Sundays, 6 to 8pm at Café Amore, 103B N. Bancroft Street, Fairhope. For more information: 251-928-0987 or 251-928-2719 or flyingfrog@aol.com.