2009 Festival Concerts

Saturday April 25: 

at:

Southern Illinois University

McLeod Theater

7:30-10:00 pm

The Saturday night concert will feature traditional music with a high-energy  group from Scotland mixing Scottish traditional and folk music with lively jigs, folk-jazz and modern songs & haunting airs, the band showcases a very new brand of music from Scotland:
 

Give Way

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The evening will also feature the exciting family band from Nashville, Tennessee 

THE WILLIS CLAN 

ORDER SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT TICKETS HERE

(a 50 cent service fee will be applied)

Note: Web ticket sales for Saturday will end Friday, April 24.  After that time, purchase tickets in person at BookWorm Bookstore, Key West Bar & Grill, Copper Dragon Brewing Co, or Corum Deo bookstore in Carbondale. Tickets are also available at the door.

ORDER FRIDAY EVENING CONCERT TICKETS HERE

(a 50 cent service fee will be applied)

Note: Friday web ticket sales will end Thursday, April 23.  After that time, purchase tickets in person at BookWorm Bookstore, Key West Bar & Grill, Copper Dragon Brewing Co, or Corum Deo bookstore in Carbondale OR  call 618-549-3090.

Tickets also available at the door.

ORDER TICKETS FOR BOTH EVENING CONCERT TICKETS HERE

(a $1 service fee will be applied)

 

DEDICATION:  This year's Festival is dedicated to the memory of Jim Hickam of Jackson, Missouri--musician, educator, broadcaster, and regular Festival session participant, who died at age 71 on September
5, 2008.  We will miss "Big Jim's" vast repertoire of humorous and heartfelt songs, and his warm and engaging personality.  He would recommend that we all go on Seamus Kennedy's Irish tour, as he himself
did just a couple of years ago.  All the best, Jim.

 

Become a member of the Friends of S. I. Irish Festival now

 

 

Returning This Year--Celtic Rock!

Mother Grove

Friday, April 24, 2009

 9 p.m.

at:

The Copper Dragon

720 E Grand Ave
Carbondale, IL, 62901

Mother Grove, a kilt-rock band from Indianapolis, will kick off this year's festival in high gear

Tickets available  at the door or order online for Friday below left

 Gerry O'Beirne

Friday April 24

7:30 p.m.

Cousin Andy's Coffeehouse, Church of the Good Shepherd, 515 S. Orchard Drive Carbondale

 Tickets:   $10 at the door. 

Saturday and Sunday Celtic Fair INFO

 

We need volunteers to help plan and carry out events during the year--call Mike at 618-549-3090 to find out how you can help, or click on Committees and Volunteers on the left.

Do you shop at Kroger?

You can make a donation to the Irish Festival by just doing your regular shopping.  How?

Purchase a $5.00 Kroger gift card from the Festival ($5 face value).  When you add money to the card before you make your purchases (including gas), Kroger will donate 4% of each dollar "recharged" to the Irish Festival. Give them as gifts to family members! Call 618-549-3090 for more information or to purchase your card. 

For more information about Festival activities, contact us at 

Southern Illinois Irish Festival

PO Box 3276, Carbondale, IL 62902-3276 

618-549-3090, or mshan@midwest.net 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 2009 Festival is sponsored in part by:

               

      Withers Broadcasting             

 

         

Venegoni Distributing and many other businesses and individual contributors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Updated 4/20/09

 

 For information about lodging or other activities in the Carbondale area, contact the Carbondale Convention and Tourism Bureau, 800-526-1500

Preferred lodging partner: 

Carbondale Super 8:   800-800-8000