Almonte Celtfest

See You in 2011!

ryang — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:40:32 +0000

Thanks to all of our volunteers, our sponsors, our vendors and artisans, our performers, our supporters and to all the people who came out to take part in this year’s Almonte Celtfest to make it a huge success! The organizing committee is committed to bringing you the 15th annual event next year and with it being a milestone year, we promise it will be something special! The 15th Almonte Celtfest will take place on July 8th, 9th, 10th in 2011. Please keep checking the website for updates!

Thanks and see you next year,

Ryan Guthrie

Almonte Celtfest Organizing Committee

Workshop Instructors Added

ryang — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:05:17 +0000

Terri-Lynn Mahusky and Kyle Felhaver have been added to the very talented list of instructors at this year’s Celtfest Workshop Program (Saturday July 10th). Terri-Lynn will provide instruction for the Cape Breton Fiddle style, while Kyle will provide instruction for the regional/Ottawa Valley Fiddle style!

Please pre-register for the classes on the Workshop Program page (online registration form is located at the bottom of that page).

Parking Map

ryang — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:09:30 +0000

Due to construction at the Almonte Arena, one of the main access points into the park has been cut off. Parking around the Arena has become limited as well. Please reference the Parking Map in this post or on the Directions page to find nearby parking lots.

Correction: Media Release

ryang — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:32:16 +0000

The Saturday night concert in the Park starts at 6pm, not 6:30pm as stated in the Canadian Gazette.

Almonte Celtfest 2010 Program

ryang — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:02:39 +0000

The July 2010 edition of The Humm will include a special Almonte Celtfest Insert that will double as our program for this year’s event. Inside the 8 page insert, you will find performer profiles, schedule of events, photos, and our many sponsors that help us put on the annual event.

To get a sneak peak of the insert, you can download a PDF version here: celtfest2010web

Pre-Registration for Workshops

ryang — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:34:45 +0000

The Pre-Registration Form is now available on our Workshops Program page! Read all the details about the this year’s Celtfest College Workshop Program. Beginner and Intermediate classes are available for most instruments.

Celtfest 2010 Performers

ryang — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:44:12 +0000

Here are this year’s Gemmill Park Main Stage performers (Performer Bios to be updated soon on Performers Page):

Saturday Night

The Monday Night Fiddlers

The Skirmish

Herringbone

The Kyle Felhaver Band

Sunday Afternoon

The Barley Shakers

The Lyon Street Celtic Band

Elly Squared

Heather Dale

Matt Pepin & Paul Hawtin

The Ryans Band

The Glengarry Bhoys

plus many more!

The Glengarry Bhoys on YouTube!

ryang — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:05:35 +0000

Check out this year’s Almonte Celtfest headliner in some YouTube videos!

WORKSHOPS - CELTFEST 2010

ryang — Sun, 16 May 2010 18:25:01 +0000

With the support of the Ottawa Valley School of Traditional Music and Mississippi Mills Music Works in Almonte, Celtfest 2010 will again be offering a variety of Celtic music workshops on Saturday, July 10, from late morning to late afternoon. Because you asked for it, workshops will be longer. This year, workshops will be 1½ hours in length and will be $15.

Workshop presenters are now confirmed for fiddle, piano accompaniment, bodhran, whistle and Irish flute, step-dance, and possibly Irish harp and mandolin, depending on interest. We hope to add more. A prerequisite for all workshops will be some fundamental working knowledge of your instrument such as basic notes and scales or basic chord patterns.

ALL registrations will be at the Old Town Hall in Almonte. You should plan to register (and pre-registrants check in) 30 minutes in advance. Like last year, many of the workshops will be held in other locations and you’ll need a few minutes to get there (planned locations: Old Town Hall, Mississippi Mills Music Works, and other locations to be determined).

Final details and scheduling have yet to be established, so please stay tuned …

Almonte Celtfest 2010!

ryang — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:43:17 +0000

This year’s Almonte Celtfest (2010) will take place the July 9th-11th weekend!

Planning is still in the early phases, but we can confirm that the Glengarry Bhoys will be headlining this year’s event! See you in July!!

Please keep checking this website for all the updates! We will continue to announce events, performers and everything Celtfest related as they are planned.