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7TH CELTIC CALLING
March 1-5th, 2023, CHARLESTON, WV

7TH CELTIC CALLING March 1-5th, 2023, CHARLESTON, WV7TH CELTIC CALLING March 1-5th, 2023, CHARLESTON, WV7TH CELTIC CALLING March 1-5th, 2023, CHARLESTON, WV

Celtic Calling Gathering 2023

A celebration of Celtic arts, culture and traditions. It includes music, dance, education, athleticism, and family fun. 

2022 - we set a  Guinness World Record for the  ‘ Largest Gathering of People Wearing Unicorn Horns’ (Scotland's National Animal)

Please check our facebook celtic calling page for updates.

Schedule, history, Sponsors

2023 - Highlights

6 Years of Excellence

6 Years of Excellence

 Art 

Paint a Highland  Coo  

Athletics 

5K Run/2K Walk  to benefit: 

The Friends of Springhill Cemetery and Mary Price Ratrie Arboretum 

Irish Road Bowling @Kanawha State Forest 

 Children’s Highland Games with Caber Tossing and Sheaf Toss Culture &  Fun In General 

Celtic Brunch 

 Clan tents  

Crafters 

 Children’s Crafts, including ‘Sockness Mon

 Art 

Paint a Highland  Coo  

Athletics 

5K Run/2K Walk  to benefit: 

The Friends of Springhill Cemetery and Mary Price Ratrie Arboretum 

Irish Road Bowling @Kanawha State Forest 

 Children’s Highland Games with Caber Tossing and Sheaf Toss Culture &  Fun In General 

Celtic Brunch 

 Clan tents  

Crafters 

 Children’s Crafts, including ‘Sockness Monster’  puppets 

Dog Show for Celtic & all breeds Highland Sheep 

Kirkin of the Tartans church service at 

Kanawha United Presbyterian

George Daugherty Tall Stories Competition  

PARADE 

 Kanwaha Valley Pipes and Drums

 Beni Kedem Highlanders

Loch Ness Monster &  Mythological  Puppets

Witches Bike Ride

Unicorns

Celtic flag bearers

Dancers 


Dance 

 Savana Brown 

Lincoln County Clogger's Appalachian Lassies doing both Irish and Scottish Dance 

Children's  Dance Workshop 

Music 

Acoustic Music Sessions 

Almost Heaven Dulcimer Group Andrew Branard—solo bagpipe Dave Haas and Friends 

Jenny  Allinder and Jim Mullens

Kaylee Polk Ceili Band

Kinnfolk

Mary-Grace Autumn Lee   

St. Albans Scottish Fiddle Orchestra

Student Music  Competition  

The Tannahill Weavers  

The Company Stores  

The Charleston Rogues

Tim and Maggie

The Mudlarks 


Theater & Film 

  Celtic Theater, Stage Readings of Five One act Plays ,  All winners of Playwright Competition 

“North Circular” Irish Film 

6 Years of Excellence

6 Years of Excellence

6 Years of Excellence

HIGHLIGHTS - The foundation we build on and add to every year.


Celtic Calling started in 2016. The 2021 Gathering was cancelled .


FOOTMAD Centerpiece Traditional Music Concerts have featured  Irish and Scottish Groups, Daimh, Teada x 2, Skippers Alley,  Heron's Valley and The Jeremiahs.


Mountain Stage has featured Seamus Egan Quartet and   

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HIGHLIGHTS - The foundation we build on and add to every year.


Celtic Calling started in 2016. The 2021 Gathering was cancelled .


FOOTMAD Centerpiece Traditional Music Concerts have featured  Irish and Scottish Groups, Daimh, Teada x 2, Skippers Alley,  Heron's Valley and The Jeremiahs.


Mountain Stage has featured Seamus Egan Quartet and   

The Jeremiah's.


Local and Regional Music Artists: Father Son and Friends, Bastard Bearded Irishmen, Mountain Thyme, Tim and Maggie, Pepper Fandango, The Company Stores, Contrarians, Jenny Allinder and Jim Mullins, Patrick O'Flaherty, Beni Kedem Highlanders Pipe Band, Dina Hornbaker, Beeswing, Plaid Clash, Appalachian Celtic Consort, John Doyle, Autumn Equinox, Wild Ones, Kanawha Valley Pipes and Drums, Modock Rounders, The Charleston Rogues, Wild Ones, Almost Heaven Dulcimer Group, Sarah an Joe Marchio, George Daugherty, Swingstein and Robin, Andrew Branard—solo bagpipe, Dave Haas and Friends, 

Minor Swing 

  Patrick Olwell, and sons,  

St. Albans Scottish Fiddle Orchestra ,  Poor Mans Gambit


Films: The Commitments,

 Brown Willy, Song of Granite, 

The Camino Voyage, Bait, 

Red Tide Moon


Heritage and Cultural Programs – Travelogues to Orkney Isles, Irleland, Galicia, Irish Fairy Folk Lore, The Campbells of Canna, Dr Mick Moloney connecting Appalachia,  

Spinning/ Weaving and Sheep Display, 

Highland Cows, Clydesdale

 Irish and Scottish Dance Performance and Workshops

  Tall Tales Storytelling       

Kirkin of the Tartans 

 Music Sessions - 5K Kilt Run/Walk Playwright Competition - Theater,  Fire Artists - Family Cycle, National Guard Rockwall Hymnsing - Cooking  Workshop  Guinness Cooking Competition


Thank you

6 Years of Excellence

Thank you

Thank you to our sponsors and business partners for  supporting the Festival in 2022. 

Celtic Calling Artists were made possible in part by a grant from Charleston Creativity Connections

Thank you to these sponsors:

Home Page Sponsor: $2000

Beattie Firth Inc Realtors

Hearth Sponsor: $1500

WV Lottery

Circle Sponsor: $500  

Brewer & Company of West

Thank you to our sponsors and business partners for  supporting the Festival in 2022. 

Celtic Calling Artists were made possible in part by a grant from Charleston Creativity Connections

Thank you to these sponsors:

Home Page Sponsor: $2000

Beattie Firth Inc Realtors

Hearth Sponsor: $1500

WV Lottery

Circle Sponsor: $500  

Brewer & Company of West Virginia Inc

WV Demolition

Thomas T. Kirk

Market Sponsor: $250    

WTSQ 88.1FM

Taylor Books

Aronfield Agency

Helping Hand Sponsor: $100 

Michael Thomas

Rob James

Chris Higgins

James Mckowen, 

Vision Shared: 

Larry Rowe

In Addition:

“This project is supported with financial assistance from the

West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History and the

National Endowment for the Arts with approval from the West

Virginia Commission on the Arts.”


Thank you to those who host, help put on and promote events during the weekend, Charleston Convention and Visitor Bureau, Kanawha County Main Library, Friends of Old Time Music and Dance -FOOTMAD, Kanawha United Presbyterian Church, Adelphia Sports Bar, Rock City Cake Company, Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema by WVIFF, WV Irish Road Bowling, The Empty Glass


Thank you to our presenters, performers musicians and dancers.


Thank you to the Volunteers who organize and help run Events.


 

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