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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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2023 Celtic Quilt Raffle
Enter to win this custom-designed, one-of-a-kind Celtic quilt with beautiful, intricate hand-quilted knotwork created by Lesli Ficker. The design of the quilt is called “Irish Chain” and it has a delightful, hand-appliqued border. Quilt size is 90″square. The raffle will take place at the 2023 Samhain Celtic New Year Festival on Saturday, October 21 at Willamette Heritage Center. Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20.
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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…
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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 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…
