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.
More info at EastDurhamIrishFestival.com
Saturday, May 27 & Sunday, May 28, 2017
Memorial Day Weekend
The 40th Annual East Durham Irish Festival
at:
Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural Centre
2267 NY-145
East Durham, NY
mjqirishculturalcenter.com
(518) 634-2286
Line-up:
Saturday, May 27
Main Stage:
10am – Dram
11am – Micheal Farrell School of Dance
11:30pm – Get Up Jack
1pm – Derek Warfield and The Young Wolfe Tones
2:15pm – Bible Code Sundays
3:30pm – Coleman Brothers
5pm – Celtic Cross
6:30pm – The Narrowbacks
8pm – Shilelagh Law
Trad Stage:
10:30am – Jimmy Gallagher and Tara Gold
12pm – Nine Mile House
1:30pm – The Pride of Moyvane
3pm – Sharon and Band
4:30pm – Cillian Vallely, Ryan McGiver and David
6pm – Get Up Jack
Beer Garden:
11:30am – Craic agus Ceol
12:45pm – Sharon and Band
2pm – Fintan Stanley
3:15pm – Mary G
4:30pm – Craic agus Ceol
5:45 pm – The Canny Brothers
Sunday, May 28
Main Stage:
10am – Mass celebrated by Fr. Fragomeni
12pm – Andy Cooney
1:30pm – Kitty Kelly
3pm – The Coleman Brothers
4:30pm – Tommy Flynn
6:15pm – The Canny Brothers
8pm – The Narrowbacks
Trad Stage:
12pm – Michael Farrell Dance School
12:30pm – The Pride of Moyvane Ceili Band
2pm – Derek Warfield and The Young Wolfe Tones
3:15pm – Blackstone Cuil
4:30pm – Dylan Foley & Dan Gurney
5:45 pm – Peter McKiernan & Seane Ruane
Beer Garden:
12pm – Dram
2:15pm – Fintan Stanley
3:30pm – Jimmy Gallagher
4:15pm – Craic agus Ceol
4:45 pm – Nine Mile House
6pm – Blackstone Cuil
Entertainment in the resorts:
McGrath’s:
Friday: Mike McGovern – 9pm
Saturday: The Canny Brothers – 9pm
Sunday: Mike McGovern + Ireland the Band – 3pm
Ireland the Band – 9pm
at:
McGrath’s Edgewood Falls
1848 State Route 145
East Durham, NY
(518) 634-2236
McGrathsMotelNY.com
Blackthorne:
Friday: The Narrowbacks
Saturday: Derek Warfield and The Young Wolfe Tones 9pm
Sunday: Derek Warfield and The Young Wolfe Tones 9pm
at:
Blackthorne Resort
348 Sunside Road
East Durham, NY
(518) 634-2541
BlackthorneResort.com
Gavin’s
Friday: Kitty Kelly 9pm
Saturday: Celtic Cross 9pm
Sunday: Andy Cooney
at:
Gavin’s Irish Country Inn
118 Golden Hill Road
East Durham NY
(518) 634-2582
GavinsInn.com
Shamrock House:
Friday: Pride of Moyvane Ceili Band
Saturday: Sharon McKenna Band – 7pm
Mickey & Raymond Coleman Brothers – 9pm
Nine Mile House – 12am
Sunday:
Tommy Flynn Band – 8pm
Mickey & Raymond Coleman Brothers – 11pm
at:
The Shamrock House
2388 NY Route 145
East Durham, NY
(518) 634-2897
ShamrockHouse.com
