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Entertainment on 5 different stages all three days!

Please check back here often for complete schedule as it becomes finalized.

  

 Friday, July 10Saturday, July 11Sunday, July 12
Main Stage

7:00 -  8:30    

The Paddy Homan Band

 

9:00 - 11:00    

THE TOSSERS

 

12:00 -  1:00   

The Irish Heritage Singers

 

1:30 -  3:00    

The Dooley Brothers 

 

3:30 -  5:00    

The Larkin and Moran Brothers

 

5:30 -  7:00    

Searson

 

7:30 -  9:00    

Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul

 

9:30 - 11:00    

Screaming Orphans

12:00 -  2:00    

Dyed in the Wool

 

 2:30 -  4:00    

Matt Stedman Band

 

 4:30 -  6:30    

THE MAKEM AND SPAIN BROTHERS

 

 7:00 -  9:00    

GAELIC STORM

Raffle Stage

 

8:30 - 9:00

Mashed Potato Eating Contest

 

1:00-1:30

Sheila Tully Academy of Irish Dance

 

3:00 - 3:30

Academy of Irish Music

 

5:00 - 5:30

Chicago Celtic Pipe Band

 

5:30 - 6:00

Trinity Academy of Irish Dance

 

7:00 - 7:30

The Irish Music School of Chicago

 

9:00 - 9:30

Shannon Rovers Irish Pipe Band

2:00 - 2:30

Misericordia Heartbreakers

 

4:00 – 4:30

Sham-ROCK Stars! Finals

 

6:30 - 7:00

Academy of Irish Music

 

9:00 - 9:30

Bagpipes & Drums of the Emerald Society CPD

Fifth Province Stage

6:00 - 7:45

Joe McShane and the Silver Bridge Band

 

8:15 - 9:45

Kevin Flynn and

The Avondale Ramblers

 

10:15 - Close

Anish

 

 

 

 

12:00 - 1:30

Cu Roi

 

2:00 - 3:30

Finbarr Fagan's Band

 

4:00 - 5:30

Kennedy's Kitchen

 

6:00 - 7:30

Fitz and the Celts

 

8:00 - 9:30

Sandcarvers

 

10:00 - Close

The Mickey Finns

 

12:30 - 2:00

Joe Cullen and Teresa Shine

 

2:30 - 4:30

Fast Eddie and Billy O'Donohue

 

5:00 - 6:30

The Katie Sullivan Band

 

7:00 - 9:00

The Mickey Finns

 

9:30 - Close

The Chancey Brothers w/Special Guests

 

Auditorium Stage

 

6:30 - 7:00

Seanachai Theatre

 

Seanachai Theatre

 

"The Belles of Cammolion" - Gaelic Park Players

Mullane-Healy-O’Brien Irish Dance Academy

 

4:30-5:00 

Triallta & Deorad Irish Dance

The Irish Mike: Stand-up Comedy featuring Alex Joyce

Trinity Academy of Irish Dance

Catherine O’Connell and Friends

 

Sham-ROCK Stars! Contest

 

Mulhern School of Irish Dance

 

O'Hare School of Irish Dance 

 

4:00-4:45

"A Tinkers Wedding" - Shapeshifters Theatre

 

5:15-6:00         

"The Importance of Being Oscar" -Milwaukee Irish Arts

 

Folk Tent

6:00 - 7:00 Synchronicity

 

7:15-8:30 The Boils

 

9:00-10:30 Platform 29

1:00 - 1:45 Irish Music ACADEMY OF IRISH MUSIC

 

2:00 - 2:45 Traditional Irish Sing Song with the WHITEY O'DAY

 

3:00 - 3:45 Wiggleworms (Children's Sing Song) OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC

 

3:45 - 4:15 Irish Dance Lessons TRINITY ACADEMY OF IRISH DANCE

 

4:15 - 5:00 Irish Music Lessons on the BODHRAN with MIKE AUSTIN

 

5:30 - 6:00 Irish Pipe Band Demonstration SHANNON ROVERS PIPE BAND

 

6:00 - 6:45 Irish Sing Song with TOM HUGHES

 

8:00 - 8:45 ShamRock! Stars - LEPRECHAUN DIVISION (Adults) - OPEN CALL!

1:00 - 1:45 Irish Music MURPHY ROCHE JUNIOR BAND

 

2:00 - 2:30  Irish Dance Lessons TRINITY ACADEMY OF IRISH DANCE

 

2:45 - 3:30 Wiggleworms (Children's Sing Song) OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC

 

3:30 - 4:15 Traditional Irish Sing Song with PAT MCKENNA and SEAN O'DONNELL

 

4:30 - 5:00 Irish Pipe Band Demonstration CHICAGO CELTIC PIPE BAND

 

5:00 - 5:30 Irish Music Lessons on the BODHRAN with MIKE AUSTIN

 

6:00 - 7:00 Irish Sing Song with TOM HUGHES

 

 3rd Floor Theatre

2:00-2:45     Irish Gaelic Basics – Greetings and Conversation

7:00 - 7:45   Lecture: The Influence of  President Kennedy's Irish Catholic Identity on the Civil Rights Movement by Tim McDonnell

 

2:00-2:45    Irish Poetry – James Clarence Mangan

 

 

 

 

 

 McGinty Room 

7:00 - 11:00

Ceili Dance

3:00 - 4:00

Irish Heritage Singers

 

5:00 - 8:00

Ceili lessons

 

8:00 - 11:30

Ceili Dance with the Joe Shannon Ceili band.

 

5:00 - 7:00

Ceili lessons

 

7:00 - 10:00

Ceili Dance

 

Shamrock American Room 

2:00 - 5:00

The Tea Room with entertainment by Harper Lillian Reasor

2:00 - 5:00

The Tea Room with entertainment by Tenor Mark Piekarz

Library

Closed

 Lectures, author signings, genealogy and a used book sale.

  Lectures, author signings, genealogy and a used book sale.

 

Museum

 

 Closed

1:00-5:00 p.m.

Special Exhibits

1:00-5:00 p.m.

Special Exhibits

Art Gallery

6:00 - 8:00

Exhibit: iPhone: Imagine your Perfect App. Artists use their wildest imagination to produce their perfect iPhone Application.

12:00 - 6:00

Exhibit: iPhone: Imagine your Perfect App. Artists use their wildest imagination to produce their perfect iPhone Application.

 

12:00 - 6:00

Exhibit: iPhone: Imagine your Perfect App. Artists use their wildest imagination to produce their perfect iPhone Application.