Every Memorial Day weekend, the small upstate town of East Durham hosts an Irish music festival. Hundreds of New Yorkers invade the Catskills town, staying at a bunch of Irish-owned motels and “resorts” for the long weekend, unofficially launching the summer season. This year’s line-up includes several fantastic bands, many of them familiar to the MurphGuide readers.
Saturday, May 23 & Sunday, May 24, 2015
The Annual East Durham Irish Festival
Memorial Day Weekend
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Coors Stage
The Narrowbacks
11.15 am – Boston’s Erin Og
12.45 pm – Broken Banjo Strings
2.15 pm – The Canny Brothers
3.45 pm – The Narrowbacks
5.15 pm – The Whistling Donkeys
6.45 pm – McLean Ave Band
8.15 pm – The Fighting Jamesons
Killian’s Stage
11:15 am – Jimmy Gallagher
12:45 pm – Sharon
2:30 pm – Derek Warfield & the Young Wolfetones
4:15 pm – Girsa
5:45 pm – Boston’s Erin Og
Beer Garden
1:00 pm – Dram
2:30 pm – Dance Lesson
2:45 pm – Craic agus Ceol
4:15 pm – Blackstone Cuil
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Celtic Cross
Coors Stage
12:15 pm – Andy Cooney
2:00 pm – Celtic Cross
3:30 pm – The Canny Brothers
5:15 pm – The Whistling Donkeys
6:45 pm – The Narrowbacks
8:15 pm – Glengarry Bhoys
Killian’s Stage
12:00 pm – Sharon
1:30 pm – Pride of Moyvane
3:15 pm – Kitty Kelly
5:00 pm – Girsa
6:30 pm – Dylan Foley, Dan Gurney & Pat Egan
7:15 pm – McLean Ave Band
Beer Garden
1:00 pm – Jimmy Gallagher
2:45 pm – Dance Lessons
3:30 pm – Craic agus Ceol
4:30 pm – Dylan Foley, Dan Gurney & Pat Egan
at:
Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural & Sports Centre
Rt. 145
East Durham, NY
More details at:
EastDurhamIrishFestival.com
