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SCHEDULE OF EVEnTSFriday, March 23

3 p.m. Festival Opens3:15 p.m. • Children’s Crafts: Castle Making w/ Playdough,

Roundhouse loft3:30 p.m. • Medieval Fighting Demo, Roundhouse main area• Julie ni Hewkin, Ace Hardware Session Stage, Machine

Shop4 p.m.• To The Pointe Dance Studio, Roundhouse main area• “Gather in the Grove” Lecture & Art Workshop by Ellie

Davis, Portland Rose Room, Roundhouse• Children’s Games, Roundhouse loft4:30 p.m.• Hales Family Musical Ties, Knights Inn Main Stage,

Machine Shop5 p.m.• Irish Step Dancing w/Samantha Harvey, Roundhouse

main area• Fiddle Workshop w/Oisin Mac Diarmada, San Francisco

Room, Roundhouse• Highland Games for Kids, front hallway, Roundhouse5:15 p.m.• Irish Songs w/Seamus Begley, Portland Rose Room,

Roundhouse• Children’s Crafts: Tree Faeries, Roundhouse loft5:30 p.m.• Round the Bend, Ace Hardware Session Stage, Machine

Shop• Irish Whistle/Flute Workshop w/Damien Stenson,

Superintendent Building• Hard cider, Perry and other medieval era fruit wines

WorkshopandTastingsw/AlanGriffin.Registeratinformationbooth.VisitorsCenter.$20.

5:45 p.m.• MedievalFightingDemo,Roundhouse,mainarea.6:30 p.m.• SYNKOFA, Knights Inn Main Stage, Machine Shop7:15 p.m. • Doors open for Headline Concert, Roundhouse7:30 p.m.• Fake Irish Accent Contest, Roundhouse8 p.m.• Headline Concert with Teada, Roundhouse10 p.m.• After-hours jam session, Roundhouse

Saturday, March 2410 a.m. Festival opens10:15 a.m.• SYNKOFA, Knights Inn Main Stage, Machine Shop• Shoes and Strings--The Irish Dance & Music Connection

w/Danielle Montague-Judd, Roundhouse main area• Children’s Crafts: Ancient Ruins- “hole of the quern

stones,” Roundhouse loft11 a.m.• “The Green Man” Lecture by Ellie Davis, Portland Rose

Room, Roundhouse• Children’s Games, Roundhouse, loft11:15 a.m.• Mark Cantor, Ace Hardware Session Stage, Machine

Shop• Irish Uilleann vs Scottish Highland Pipes w/Seán Gavin

and David Brewer, Roundhouse main area• “Weaving sound with wood, strings and wind” w/Round

the Bend, Superintendent Building11:45 a.m.• Highland Games for Kids, front hallway, RoundhouseNoon• Part 1- “Swords and Spears and Axes, Oh My!”

(MedievalWeaponsPart1)byC.DavidBelt,Roundhouse main area

• More Irish Songs with Seamus Begley, Portland Rose Room, Roundhouse

• Celtic band piano/keyboard backup w/Samantha Harvey, keyboards provided, San Francisco Room, Roundhouse

• Children’s Crafts: Tree Faeries, Roundhouse loft12:15 p.m.• Red Hot Ceili Peppers, Knights Inn Main Stage, Machine

Shop• Learn an Irish tune w/Oisin Mac Diarmada and John

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12:30 p.m.• Hard cider, Perry and other medieval era fruit wines

WorkshopandTastingsw/AlanGriffin.Registeratinformationbooth.$20,VisitorsCenter

12:45 p.m.• Children’s Games, Roundhouse loft1 p.m.• HighlandDancing:whatisitandwhyisitdifferentfrom

Irish dancing w/Bridget Sousa, Roundhouse main area• “The Fae” Lecture & Art Workshop by Ellie Davis,

Portland Rose Room, Roundhouse• Mandolin Family Instruments w/Stu Mason, San

Francisco Room, Roundhouse

1:15 p.m.• Harvest Home, Ace Hardware Session Stage, Machine

Shop• Try the Highland Pipes: Practice Chanter by Rob

Gandara, chanter provided, Superintendent Building1:30 p.m.• Highland Games for Kids, front hallway, Roundhouse1:45 p.m.• Part2“SwordsandSpearsandAxes,OhMy!”(Medieval

WeaponsPart2)byC.DavidBelt,Roundhousemainarea

• Children’s Crafts: Stained Glass, Roundhouse loft2 p.m.• Advanced Fiddle w/Fiachra Hayes, San Francisco Room,

Roundhouse2:15 p.m.• Téada mini concert w/Q&A, Knights Inn Main Stage,

Machine Shop• Guitar Backup - Celtic Styles w/Aodán Coyne,

Superintendent Building• IntrototheAccordionw/ShaneHayes,VisitorsCenter2:30 p.m.• “Remember the Way: Dream Workshop” by Ellie Davis,

Portland Rose Room, Roundhouse• Children’s Games, Roundhouse loft2:45 p.m.• AfternoonCeiliSessionledoutbyheadlinebands.

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3 p.m.• Kilt Contest, Knights Inn Main Stage, Machine Shop• Highland Games for Kids, front hallway, Roundhouse

3:15 p.m.• Slip n the Jigs, Ace Hardware Session Stage, Machine

Shop• “Tales of Courage, Enemy Nobility, and Lost Loves,”

storytellingbyC.DavidBelt,SanFranciscoRoom,Roundhouse

• Learn To Play the Whistle with Rob Gandara, whistles provided, Superintendent Building

• Children’s Crafts: Shields for Lads & Lasses, Roundhouse loft

4 p.m.• WhiskyTastingw/MickKindler.Registeratinformation

booth.VisitorsCenter.$40.4:15 p.m.• Pladdohg, Knights Inn Main Stage, Machine Shop• Bodhrán (Irish frame drum) w/Tristan Rosenstock,

SuperintendentBuilding.5:15 p.m. • Doors open for Headline Concert, Roundhouse6 p.m.• Headline Concert with Socks in the Frying Pan7:30 p.m.• RedHairContest&Raffle,Roundhouse8 p.m.• Headline Concert with Molly’s Revengev, Roundhouse10 p.m.• After-hourspartyatSudsBrother’sBrewery,1012Main

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SCHEDULE OF EVEnTS