2008 Festival Concerts

Saturday April 26:Cathie Ryan

Cathie Ryan will be the headline act for the Saturday night concert.  She'll make a preview appearance at the Saturday Celtic Fair in late afternoon.

BUY SATURDAY CONCERT TICKETS HERE

Friday concert:

The Friday night concert will start the traditional concerts with the high-energy team of

Sean Cleland and Jimmy Keane

The evening continues with good songs and humor of

Mairtin de Cogain and Jimmy Crowley

BUY FRIDAY CONCERT TICKETS HERE

BUY TICKETS FOR BOTH CONCERTS HERE

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New This Year--Celtic Rock!

Mother Grove

Thursday, April 24, 9 p.m. Mugsy McGuire's Entertainment Center

1620 W. Main St., Carbondale

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

Celtic Fair INFO

We need volunteers to help plan and carry out events during the year--call Elana at 618-549-7741 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 2008 Festival is sponsored in part by:

Withers Broadcasting:                           

Venegoni Distributing and many other businesses and individual contributors

 Updated 4/8/08

 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