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Corvallis Celtic Festival
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Registration is not Required
About this event
Festivities begin with a kick-off concert on Thursday evening July 25 featuring three Corvallis-based bands. Common Fields in downtown Corvallis is hosting this free event and donating a percentage of food and beverage sales to the festival.
On Friday evening, July 26, the festival headliner Rakish, a fiddle and guitar duo from Boston, will perform at the newly opened state-of-the art PRAx concert hall on the Oregon State University campus. This is the only ticketed festival event and tickets will be available on the PRAx website.
Admission is free although festival buttons for a donation of $10 or more will be available. Each day starts with a bagpipers parade. Main Stage in Central Park will host 8 bands on Saturday and 4 bands on Sunday. The Corvallis library will host smaller performances including storytellers and singers, as well as workshops on beginning guitar, beginning and advanced Irish drum, fiddle, and singing. Additional workshops on Saturday including dance steps, a band workshop, advanced guitar, advanced fiddle, Irish flute, and Cape Breton fiddle will be offered at the nearby First Presbyterian Church. The Cor v allis Art Center will be a dedicated harp space and includes a hands on harp workshop (limit 12 and pre-registration required on the website), and performances from a variety of Celtic harpists.
Schedule:
July 25 (Thu): Loose Flagstone, Cucunandy, The Nettles at Common Fields, 545 SW 3rd St.
July 26 (Fri): Rakish ($25 general/$23 CFS Members/$5 students) at PRAx, 470 SW 15th St.
July 27 (Sat): seven venues, many workshops, classes, and performers (including David Ingerson, Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter, Sharon & David Thormahlen, Adams, Martin & Linahon, Erica Liebert, Corey Murphy, many others.
July 28 (Sun): Stone Porridge, Loose Flagstone, Cucunandy at Central Park