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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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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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Did you see us in the Statesman Journal?
We chatted with Brooke Jackson-Glidden of the Statesman Journal yesterday who is wrote a piece up about the inaugural Samhain Celtic New Year Festival. We are excited to see it in print next week, but here’s a preview: Celebrate Celtic heritage at Samhain festival Oct. 22 (click above to read the full story) Halloween, before horror movies and trick-or-treating became the norm, came from a Celtic celebration known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in), also known as the “feast of the dead.” The holiday served as a New Year celebration, and the folks from the Ceili of the Valley Society want to introduce the tradition to Salem.
