The 12th annual Celtic Fest Chicago features live music on two stages and in several tents. Among the fest’s other offerings are the Ceili Dance Tent, the Dance Stage, and a children’s play area with miniature golf, face painting, and musical performances. On Saturday and Sunday from 11 AM till 2:30 PM, there will be a Scottish heavy-athletics competition and a demonstration of proper sheepherding techniques, both in Grant Park’s Butler Field. Festival preview activities include a performance by
Errigal at noon on Friday in the Randolph Cafe of the Chicago Cultural Center, and a Celtic harp workshop at 7 PM on Friday at the Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox. Only music performances are listed below.
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Next Generation Tent
11:00 Saoirse
Noon Academy of Irish Music
12:30 Cu Roi
1:30 Hahn Music School
2:00 Irish Music School
3:30 Willis Clan
5:00 Baal Tinne
6:30 Bodega
8:00 Brock McGuire Band
Uilleann Pipe Tent
Noon Chicago Pipers’ Club
1:00 Pat D’Arcy
2:00 Tom Creegan
3:00 Sean Ryan
4:00 Kieran O’Hare
5:00 Kevin Henry
6:15 Dyed in the Wool
7:45 Les Chauffeurs a Pieds
Celtic Voice Tent
1:15 Kevin Henry & Maggie Healy
2:30 Tim O’ Sullivan
5:00 Mary Jane Lamond
6:15 Irish Heritage Singers
Harp Tent
11:00 Carl Johnson
Noon Cynthia Shelhart
1:00 Aislinn Gagliardi & Meghan Anzelc
2:00 Cecile Corbel
3:00 Chelsea Sky Link
4:00 Kim Robertson
Children’s Play Area
12:30 and 1:30 Lindsay Weinberg
3:00 and 4:00 Karen Banks-Lubicz
Gathering Tent
6:00 Mairi Rankin, Mac Morin, and Matt MacIsaac
6:55 Stephanie Hardy & Colin Grant
7:45 Glenn Graham, Patrick Gillis, and Robbie Fraser
8:40 Mary Jane Lamond, Wendy MacIsaac, and Clarence Deveau
Piping Circle
Midlothian Scottish Pipe Band
Chicago Stock Yard Kilty Band
Northwest Indiana Pipe Band
Celtic Crossroads Stage
11:30 Cara
12:50 Beoga
2:10 Old Blind Dogs
3:30 Larkin & Moran Brothers
Petrillo Music Shell
6:00 Elders
7:30 Great Big Sea
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Next Generation Tent
11:00 Shine School
11:30 Farley Masterton
12:30 Hatfield Sisters
1:00 Murphy Roche Music School
2:30 Lily Henley
3:00 Scottish Fiddle Group
4:00 Academy of Irish Music
5:00 Beoga
6:30 Les Chauffeurs a Pieds
8:00 Cara
Uilleann Pipe Tent
11:00 Bob Kellam
Noon Jeff Lindblade
1:00 Pat Cannady
2:00 Pat D’Arcy
3:00 Pat Broaders
4:00 Tom Creegan
5:00 Brendan McKinney
6:15 Brock McGuire Band
7:45 Katie Sullivan Band
Celtic Voice Tent
Noon Old Town School Women’s Choir
1:15 Jim Wearne
3:45 David Llewellyn
5:00 Shapeshifters
6:15 Navan
Harp Tent
11:00 Glissando
Noon Dorothy Walsh & Jeffrey Best
1:00 Carl & Mona Johnson
2:00 Kim Robertson
3:00 Turner Collins
4:00 Cecile Corbel
Children’s Play Area
12:30 and 1:30 Laura Doherty
3:00 and 4:00 Helen Helenius
Gathering Tent
6:00 Stephanie Hardy & Colin Grant
6:55 Glenn Graham, Patrick Gillis, and Robbie Fraser
7:45 Mary Jane Lamond, Wendy MacIsaac, and Clarence Deveau
8:40 Mairi Rankin, Mac Morin, and Matt MacIsaac
Piping Circle
City of Chicago Pipe Band
Chicago Celtic Pipe Band
Celtic Crossroads Stage
11:30 Errigal
12:50 Mary Jane Lamond
2:10 Willis Clan
3:30 Muck Brothers
4:50 Bodega
Petrillo Music Shell
6:00 Old Blind Dogs
7:30 Leahy