Announcement
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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…
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Celtic Quilt Raffle
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SAVE THE DATE!
The 2023 Samhain Celtic New Year Festival will take place on Saturday, October 21. It will return to the heart of Salem at the Willamette Heritage Center. Watch for more information coming soon. We will be looking for sponsors, presenters, vendors and a headline performer!
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Celtic Quilt Raffle
Enter to win this colorful, custom-designed quilt with beautiful, intricate hand-quilted details. Leslie Ficker has once again created a one-of-a-kind quilt to be raffled at the Samhain Celtic New Year Festival. The quilt is 86 inches x 64.5 inches and has a beautiful Celtic knotwork border. Tickets are $5.00 each or 5 tickets for $20.00. Detail Photo:
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Biddy on the Bench headlines the 2022 festival!
Step into a world of Celtic culture at the Ceili of the Valley’s annual Samhain Celtic New Year Festival 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, in the Spinning Room at the Willamette Heritage Center, 1313 Mill St. SE. Learn to sing a shanty. Try your feet at set dancing. Explore Celtic history and heritage. Listen to stories of the wee folk and faeries. Visit the family area for opportunities to craft. Shop vendors of a cultural nature. The festival offers a wide variety of experiences, information and opportunities for all ages, including mini highland games where kids can test their skills at the caber toss, sheaf toss,…
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2022 Schedule Posted
The 2022 Samhain Celtic New Year Festival schedule has been posted! Check it out and plan now to make the most of this fun, family-friendly event! Click here for schedule. And learn more about our Vendors here. And the Presenters & Exhibitors here.
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2022 Samhain Festival set for Oct 22
— Save The Date — The Samhain Celtic New Year Festival returns in person this year! It will be held on Saturday, October 22nd in the Willamette Heritage Center Spinning Room.
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Join us for the 2021 Samhain Celtic New Year Festival!
The Ceili of the Valley Society invites you to the 6th annual Samhain Celtic New Year Festival — a month-long celebration happening during October 2021 and highlighting all things Celtic, with a special focus on Scotland. In addition to a variety of content featured on the Samhain website, this year’s festival includes online and in-person events: Pan Celtic Ceili on Friday, October 8, featuring musicians D’n’A and four callers doing dances from the Celtic nations. Doors open at 7 p.m. with instruction about 7:20 and music beginning at 8. No experience or dance partner is necessary. Bring water. There will not be a snack table. $10 per person, pay at…
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Application open for
2020 Virtual Festival!We’re going virtual! Due to COVID-19, the Ceili of the Valley Society has decided to move the 5th annual Samhain Celtic New Year Festival online. This year’s event will take place Saturday, October 24, 2020, and feature all the things people have come to love experiencing at the event including live music, demonstrations, speakers, workshops, children’s activities, vendors, and more. Despite being virtual this year, the Festival aims to provide an immersive day of entertainment for the whole community as it celebrates the seven Celtic nations: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, Galicia and Isle of Man, but to do this, we need your help. If you are interested in being…
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Come one, come all to the Celtic New Year Festival!
Celebrate the Celtic New Year Celtic culture comes alive at the Ceili of the Valley’s second annual Samhain Celtic New Year Festival, which features a day of hands-on experience 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017, at Grant Community School, 725 Market St. NE. Honoring the seven Celtic Nations (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, Galicia and Isle of Man), the event is a day of immersive live music, speakers, workshops and educational hands-on activities that are fun for the whole community. Learn about the Celtic roots of Halloween. See demonstrations of art, cooking and dance. Take part in a workshop for fiddle, whistle, uilleann pipes and bodhran. Listen…
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Performers, Vendors, Sponsors wanted
Are you a Celtic performer? Do you have a Celtic-related hobby you want to share? Do you sell Celtic goods? If so, we want to hear from you. Performers please visit: https://celticfestival.info/participate/ Sponsors please visit: Our Sponsor Page Vendors please email orcelticfest@gmail.com
