2024
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Thank you Capital Community Media!
We are grateful for the support we have received from Capital Community Media in helping capture the educational and entertaining side of the Samhain Celtic New Year Festival! We hope you enjoy these videos they have created from our 2023 and 2024 events. Oct 30, 2024 — Join us as we attend Céilí of the Valley’s 2024 Samhain Celtic New Year Festival! Learn about the history of this event about why it’s important to keep these cultural traditions alive. Nov 4, 2023 — Ceili of the Valley Society hosted their Samhain Celtic New Year Festival at the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem Oregon this year. Take a look at…
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Celtic Quilt Raffle
Lesli Ficker has, once again, outdone herself in creating a custom-designed Celtic quilt with beautiful, intricate hand-quilted knotwork for raffle at the Samhain Celtic New Year Festival. The quilt is 72″ square. The quilt features the “Wild Irish Rose,” which celebrates the sturdy, self-reliant and gorgeous Irish women past, present and future. As the song says….. “My Wild Irish Rose, The sweetest flower that grows. You may search everywhere, But none can compare with My Wild Irish Rose” (Excerpt from the song My Wild Irish Rose written by Chauncey Olcott.) Tickets will be $5 each, 5/$20 and only available at the festival on October 19, 2024. Winner need not be…
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Meet the 2024 Headlining Band — Blaz Dañjerus
The headlining band for the 2024 Samhain Celtic New Year Festival is… Blaz Dañjerus (Breton for “dangerous taste”) is an exciting new project focusing on both Irish and Breton dance music and featuring the musical talents of Preston Wilde, Channing Dodson, and Zac Léger. Preston Wilde (fiddle, Flemish bagpipes, uilleann pipes, bombarde) grew up in Northern California where he first heard traditional dance music in the form of a Finbar Furey recording belonging to his father. He began learning the uilleann pipes at age 17 with the help of the late Dingle piper Con Durham as well as the Pub Scouts, the local Irish music collective in Chico, CA. Now…
