• 2023

    2023 Samhain Festival headliner is Two Rivers Ceili Band

    For over 50 years, our region has been rich with Irish music and Irish dance. Dancers have enjoyed céilí (Irish social) and set dancing to great live music, and learned step dancing and Sean-Nós (old-style) dancing from great teachers. What the region hasn’t had was a dedicated céilí band–that is, musicians committed to providing music for céilí and set dancing. The Two Rivers Céilí Band assembled in July 2022 to remedy this. In Ireland and worldwide, céilí bands represent the talents of their locality. Two Rivers Céilí Band well represents our region with fiddles, flutes, whistles, uilleann pipes, guitar, piano and song. Our members: Niamh Branigan is a fiddle player…

  • 2021,  Announcement

    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…