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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.  Schedule will be published as events are confirmed. Please check our facebook celtic calling page for local interest events and news. 

Schedule, history, Sponsors

2022 - Highlights

5 Years of Excellence

5 Years of Excellence

 Art 

Unicorn art contest for students  

Athletics 

5K Run/2K Walk  to benefit: 

The Friends of Springhill Cemetery and Mary Price Ratrie Arboretum 

Irish Road Bowling, “Bowling For Bowls” to benefit  

Covenant House Food Pantry 

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

Celtic Brunch 

 Clan tents  

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 Art 

Unicorn art contest for students  

Athletics 

5K Run/2K Walk  to benefit: 

The Friends of Springhill Cemetery and Mary Price Ratrie Arboretum 

Irish Road Bowling, “Bowling For Bowls” to benefit  

Covenant House Food Pantry 

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

Celtic Brunch 

 Clan tents  

WV Music Hall of Fame 

Crafters 

Face Painting, Children’s Crafts, including ‘Sockness Monster’  puppets 

The magic and mystery of nature - Capitol Conservation District, WV D.E.P

WV Land Trust 

Dog Show for Celtic & all breeds Highland Sheep 

Kirkin of the Tartans at 

Kanawha United Presbyterian 

Guinness World Record attempt: ‘ Largest Gathering of People Wearing Unicorn Horns’

Photo ops with unicorns

PARADE

 Kanwaha Valley Pipes and Drums

 Beni Kedem Highlanders

A Loch Ness Monster & Welsh Red Dragon floats

Witches Bike Ride

Unicorns

Celtic flag bearers

Dancers 

George Daugherty Tall Stories Competition 

Dance 

 Savana Brown 

Irish Dance Workshop with Will Roboski 

Lincoln County Cloggers Mountain Dance doing both Irish and Scottish Dance 

Sean nos style Irish Dance Workshop 

Music 

Autumn Equinox 

Acoustic Music Sessions 

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

Minor Swing 

 Music Tune Workshops 

 Patrick Olwell, master flute maker, and sons.  

St. Albans Scottish Fiddle Orchestra  

Teada  

The Company Stores  

The Charleston Rogues 

Patrick O’Flaherty 

Comedy 

Stephanie Hall  

Theater & Film 

Welsh Play - “Mother Tongue”  Celtic Theater, Stage Readings of Five One act Plays ,  All winners of Playwright Competition 

“Red Tide Moon,” Galician Film 

5 Years of Excellence

5 Years of Excellence

5 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, 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, 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, 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, Wild Ones, Kanawha Valley Pipes and Drums, Modock Rounders, The Charleston Rogues, Wild Ones, Almost Heaven Dulcimer Group, Sarah an Joe Marchio, George Daugherty, Poor Mans Gambit


Films: The Commitments, Brown Willy, Song of Granite, The Camino Voyage, Bait


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

5 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: $1000

WV Lottery

Bailey & Wyant, PLLC

FOOTMAD

Greater Kanawha Val

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: $1000

WV Lottery

Bailey & Wyant, PLLC

FOOTMAD

Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation 

Circle Sponsor: $500  

Guinness 

John D. Hurst, Esquire

Philip and Dawn Combs

Brewer & Company of West Virginia Inc

McKinley Carter Wealth Services

Mayberry Appraisals

City of Charleston

WV Demolition

Aronfield Agency

Market Sponsor: $250    

Hendrickson and Long, PLLC

FOOTMAD

Eric B. Snyder, Esquire

Gray, Griffith & Mays

Vincent King, Esquire

Terradon

Drug Emporium

KOMAX BUISSNESS SYSTEMS

Anonymous

Jake Wegman

WTSQ 88.1FM

Taylor Books

Helping Hand Sponsor: $100 

Webb Law Center PLLC, 

James F. Humphreys & Associates, LC

Vickie King McLaughlin

 Blackwell & Co

Plante & Associates Inc

Appalachian Timing Group

Thomas T. Kirk

David M. Gladkosky

Michael Thomas

Rob James

Chris Higgins

James Mckowen, 

Vision Shared: 

Larry Rowe, Valley Gardens

Charleston Rogues


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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