Celtic Halloween 2019

10/11/2019

REPOST CANCELED

08/17/2019

CANCELED CANCELED CANCELED

Good afternoon everyone. We’re sorry to announce that The Celtic Halloween Festival for this year has been CANCELED in order to better focus on other events for the year. We appreciate your interest and understanding at this time. We do hope to bring the event back in future!

03/07/2019

Come celebrate the season with the Celtic Halloween Festival, honoring the origins of our modern holiday with a concert, pig roast and historical recreations of the customs of the Irish, Scottish and Welsh peoples. There will even be some spooky surprises, with creatures from Celtic folkore lurking in the shadows.

Known as "Oidhche Shamhna" in Gaelic and "Calan Gaef" in Welsh, the Celts celebrated Halloween with a bonfire around which people would make merry with food, music, traditional customs and stories. On a night in which ghosts and monsters are said to roam the earth, the "Hwch ddu Gwta" or "Cutty Black Sow"- a spectral pig monster- was the chief terror associated with the Celtic Halloween.

This is a free event. To join our invitation list or contact us, please email [email protected]

Music featuring:

The Flint Scottish Pipe Band
Roane
Black Murray
Walter Street Ceili Band

Sponsored by the UM-Flint Department of History

03/03/2019

Black Murray is another band we will have with us at Celtic Halloween this fall. Check them out this spring at their upcoming events!

An acoustic band inspired by songs of love, folly, roguery, and murder--not necessarily in that order

03/03/2019

Big thanks to Roane (Celtic/American folk band) for performing at Celtic Halloween 2019 and providing the sound support for the event. We look forward to working with you again soon! Until then, be sure to see them this spring at a variety of venues.

Celtic-American Folk Band

03/03/2019

We're so glad to have The Water Street Ceili Band come to perform at the Celtic Halloween this fall! Be sure to check them out before the event and watch a divine film!

An amorphous group of musicians playing Tunes and Songs in the Celtic/Maritime Tradition.

02/27/2019

What an amazing job all the artists and pipe bands did for the Flint Scottish Pipe Band Ceilidh this past Saturday!! We look forward to seeing the FSPB in the fall! 🍂 🍁