Crossword Puzzle: Irish Festivals!
by Linda Burke
ACROSS
5 ____West from Galway
7 _________ plays Scottish
traditional Celtic battle music
9 ____ Man’s Gambit is a trio
based out of Pennsylvania
11 _____, Irish band influenced by
electro, jazz, house, and rock
music.
12 ________ Sessions hail from
the Highlands of Scotland
14 ____ RAVEN perform an
eclectic blend of traditional
Celtic and World music, as well
as their own original
compositions
15 The Whileaways , a band from
_______
16 Gaelic ____ Ireland’s Most
Popular Traditional Irish Ballad
Band with a lively Rock
Sensibility from Cork Ireland.
17 ____ O’Neill , Irish singer with a
bluesy, husky voice.
18 Brigid’s _____ Cleveland’s Paul
Baker, Peggy Goonan-Baker
and Richie Reece
20 The Fitzgeralds, siblings, from
_______’s renowned Ottawa
Valley
22 _____In the Frying Pan, young
trad trio from County Clare
25 ______ Stanley, Boston, MA, is
considered by many as a
master of the five row button
accordion
26 ______ Henry New York, NY,
funny and talented singer
27 HOOLIGANS, four fun-loving
musicians that show their pride
in the rich history of the Irish in
______ Ohio
28 _____ Celtic Fest is July 26-28,
at Riverscape in Downtown
Dayton
30 ___ Moran & Padraig Stevens,
Galway, Members of The Saw
Doctors
35 Derek ________& the Young
Wolfe Tones responsible for
preservation of the tradition of
Irish ballad singing over the past
50 years.
37 American ______ from Canada
38 General _________Band has
performed the songs and music
of Ireland for over 35 years
40 ___ Ragged, traditional band
from New Foundland
42 ______ Irish Fest, Aug. 2-4
43 Hank ______ with a booming
bass voice, hails from Winthrop
WA
44 Fest Ohio, a celtic fair in
Waynesville, OH, June 14 – 16
47 Colm _______is best known as
one of the Principal singers
Celtic Thunder
49 The _______, playing traditional
Irish music in the city of
Cleveland for the past 30 years.
50 The _____ Brothers, a family
band from Donegal, now based
in FL
51 Father, Son and ________
53 ______ Doyle, Glendale, CA, is
a Celtic harpist, singer and
storyteller
56 _______ Banjo from Castlebar,
Co. Mayo
58 ______, a full bodied pipe and
whistle extravaganza from
Belfast
59 ______ Storm – the chart topping,
multi-national Celtic
band
63 Niall ______, musician,
University of Limerick
64 The ___________ based in
New York a young punk/old
time folk band.
65 _____ the Sea, Celtic Rock
from Central Ohio playing high energy
original and traditional
music since 2015.
67 ____ _____ , Irelands premiere
Ballad band
70 Gaelic Storm from the movie
_______
71 DUBLIN ______BAND is a
highly-select 30-member Britishstyle
brass band based here in
Dublin, Ohio.
74 Ballybeg ______, Rob Wilson
from Belfast, Richard Free from
Dublin and Jeff Kanel from
Columbus join forces.
75 _______, Playing immigrant
rock with thunderous energy,
technical prowess, and
storytelling songwriting
76 _______ Road duo playing
together for two decades
78 ____ Celtic Festival Sept. 20-22
@ the Mentor Amphitheater
79 _______ Hearts is a lively
interactive, hand clapping, foot
stomping traditional Irish band
featuring four-part mixed voices
80 The ____ Pointers have
connected with audiences
across the globe, playing new,
original roots music .
81 _______ McManus, singer/songwriter
and Celtic artist from
Armagh, Northern Ireland
DOWN
1 Bagpipes and drums with a
Scottish flare, the Red Hot Chilli
______ carry a distinct sound.
2 The Dublin _______ are an
award-winning family musical
show
3 Rory ______, Tommy’s son
sings Irish folk tunes
4 Garry Gormley, One
____Paddy Quincy MA Co.
Tyrone, Sings with Young
WolfeTones
5 _______ Crowe , Detroit, MI
Derek Wikarski – Paul Wikarski
formerly The Kreelers
6 ____________. a local
traditional Irish music duo of
Irish harp and fiddle.
8 ______ Sands, folk singer, song
writer, radio broadcaster from
Mayobridge, Co. Down
10 Cleveland Irish ________
Festival , July 19-21
13 ___________. Alec and John of
Cleveland
16 Aoife Scott, daughter of
Frances _____
19 ____ Hennessy is an Irish
virtuoso guitarist
21 _____ Cahilll, a solo artist who
sang with Celtic Thunder
23 _______ and Mash Suffolk
County, NY Americelt. It’s a
meld of Celtic Rock, Southern
Rock and Folk
24 Emma ________ hails from
Limerick City
26 ______Lads bring to the stage a
concoction of “can’t hold still”
Irish dance tunes
29 ___ _____High energy Celtic
Rock band that played at
Disney World
31 ________ Green hails from
Limerick
32 ______ is an award winning trad
band from NI
33 Doolin’ – Irish music with a
______touch!
34 JAMESON’S _____A local
favorite to the Dayton area
36 ________’s music is a Celtic
hybrid that pays homage to the
traditional celtic sound
39 __________, the Scottish band
that started the Oban Live
Festival
41 _______ the Ladies, New
York, NY , Celebrating 33 years
of music making with leader
Joanie Madden
45 ____. a five-piece band from the
North of Ireland
46 ________, Evans, and Doherty
Trad trio from Canadian
Maritimes and Omagh, Co.
Tyrone
48 The ____ Sisters from Galway
52 _________ Irish Festival, June
7-9, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
54 The _________, a Halifax based
band
55 9 ______Close prides itself on
adding a new dimension to the
Celtic Rock scene
56 __________, a fun loving, high
energy band from
Philadelphia.
57 _____ Lane is rock, and reel,
but most of all, the good times
roll from Cleveland
60 ______ of Longford perform
their unique contemporary Irish
style both regionally and
nationally.
61 The _________ Orphans are
four sisters from Bundoran ,
County Donegal,
62 ________ Cleveland’s Maureen
Conway Reich, Marcus Dirk,
Patrick Faith
65 Galway, Ireland’s We _____3
for finding common ground
between old world tradition and
authentic Americana by plying
“Celtgrass.”
66 No _________ Here,
Cleveland’s Pat Hoynes, Bob
Crawford and Larry Bachtel
68 ________ has been performing
a unique mix of Celtic and
energetic American folk rock
since 1999.
69 __________ Irish Festival –
Aug. 15-18
72 ______Davis Lawrence, KS,
tormer soloist for the Vegas
premiere of Michael Flatley’s
“Lord of the Dance.”
73 ____ of the Hock, Playing Irish
music together for 25 years,
77 ___ Linn, former ambassadors of
Seachtain na Gaelige
