MUNDY BLACK 47 Ireland’s Superstar Hit Maker Final Hudson Valley Show! G R E AT M U S IC! ! ! JAMESON’S REVENGE THE DRUIDS TIM MURPHY Fest Favs! Returning from Ireland The Bard of the Hudson Great MASSED PIPEF un! Kids of all ages!ve C BANDS nteracti hampion I The Best I turing rish Step Dan ea Fea c Kids Ar ames T World C ers ys and G raditional I lass tury To Featuring rish Cen Ma Folk Te 18th ry Cou nt Games Rising of the M rtney ish Arts oon S Ir Vendors eisun Cultural Exhibits A Message from the Chairman e are excited to present the 6th Annual of the best Traditional Irish Musicians, Singers love. It is our hope that the Jack McAndrew WHudson Valley Irish Fest. Four years ago, a primary and Storytellers from the Lower Hudson Valley Memorial Traditional Tent will inspire future goal was realized with the opening of the Hudson & beyond. Each year, Dance schools Sheahan- participants and continue our labor of love, the Valley Irish Center at the Red School House in Gormely School of Dance and Kelly Oster promotion of Irish music and culture in the Verplanck. Our home helps us to preserve the School of Irish Dance entertain visitors with their Lower Hudson Valley. Irish American culture, music, theatre, history terrific talent. The Jack McAndrew Memorial The Hudson Valley Irish Fest Inc. is co- and heritage that abound in the lower Hudson Traditional Tent features fine artists and historical sponsored by the Division 18, Peekskill Ancient Valley. Proceeds from the Hudson Valley Irish displays. Jack McAndrew, lifelong advocate for Order of Hibernians & Ladies Ancient Order of Fest, a not for profit charitable organization, all things Irish and an AOH Division 18 member, Hibernians and is a member of the Hudson support the Hudson Valley Irish Center as well as passed away in 2012. For decades, Jack kept Valley Gateway Chamber of Commerce and is establishment of Irish heritage, literary and media Irish traditional music alive in the Lower Hudson grateful to our patron, The Consulate General of sections in our local libraries. In 2013, through Valley with the legendary Rising of the Moon Ireland NY & the Irish Abroad Unit of the Irish donations of books and material, we established Seisuin at Jimmy Guinan’s in Garrison, and other Foreign Affairs Dept. our own Hudson Valley Irish Library at the venues, and now at The Quiet Man Public House We welcome you, your family and friends to Center, open to the public on selected weekends. in Downtown Peekskill. Late folk hero Pete join us at the Fest and our upcoming events at the In 2012, we introduced the “Jack McAndrew Seeger visited the Rising of the Moon seisuin Center! Memorial Traditional Tent” with a stellar assembly encouraging others to support Jack’s labor of Dan Dennehy, Chairman With sincere thanks to our major supporters... Emigrant Support Programme of the Irish Abroad Unit and Consulate General Of Ireland NY Entergy • AOH-LAOH Division 18 of Peekskill • Casperkill Golf Club www.hudsonvalleyirishfest.com 6th Annual Hudson Valley Irish Fest ual Ir n is n h A F h e t s t 6 S p ✤ o n r s o Indian Point Energy Center Safe. Secure. 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BERTOLINE & SONS, INC. 7 John Walsh Boulevard Peekskill, NY 10566 Ph: 914-737-0266 Fax: 914-737-5878 www.bertoline.com Celebrating 81 Years of Quality Service Like us on Facebook 6th Annual Hudson Valley Irish Fest The Hudson Valley Irish Center & Library The Hudson Hibernians Division 18 and the formation of the Valley Irish Fest new Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians uses your donations Division 18 can be directly attributed to the Fest. to fund the Fest We are members of the Hudson Valley operations, donations Gateway Chamber of Commerce and we’re to support local proud to each year share the date with the Rotary charities, and in Horse Show located nearby at Blue Mountain. the creation of the The Hudson Valley Irish Center are grateful Hudson Valley Irish to our patrons, the Irish Abroad Unit of the Center, located in the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate "Red School House" on the 2nd Floor of 210 General of Ireland New York. We wish Mr and Sixth Street in Verplanck, NY. The "Red School Mrs. Noel Kilkenny well in Ambassador House" is an historical building dating to 1876 Kilkenny's new post in Greece. We thank the and built as a labor of love by the local Irish Consul General for each year presenting a community who were involved in the brick- Heritage Grant from the Irish government to making industry of the time. enable us to continue a series of programs that The Hudson Valley Irish Center nows holds promote Irish and Irish American heritage, an extensive library of Irish literature and historic culture, music, arts and literature in the Hudson documents. The Hudson Valley Irish Library Valley Irish Center and the Lower Hudson includes the collections of stalwarts Ray Valley. Bermingham and Ray O'Hanlon, editor of Irish We welcome you to join us at the Hudson Echo newspaper. Our Libary curator, Liam Valley Irish Fest Center. Murphy, eagerly awaits donations from writers, publishers and private donors. Following the 2009 Hudson Valley Irish Fest a joint donation with the Peekskill St. Patrick’s Parade Committee to the Peekskill Field Library created the Dr. John McGurty, Sr. Literature and Media center dedicated to Irish history, literature and culture. Increased membership and activity in our local Irish organizations, Ancient Order of The Hudson Valley irish Center organized trips to help aid victims of Hurricane Sandy. All Best Wishes from DANIEL F. MCCARTHY Attorney at Law and STEPHANIE V. PORTEUS Attorney at Law The McCarthy Law Firm, P.C. Welcome To Our New Location... 37 North Riverside Avenue • Croton-on-Hudson, New York 10520 Phone (914) 271-2828 • Fax (914) 271-2880 2014 6th Annual Fest Band Lineup Lineup for Main Stage 2014 Hudson Valley Irish Fest On Our Main Stage All Throughout the Day The Jack McAndrew Memorial Traditional Tent Lineup 11:00 am Rising of the Moon Seisiun Chaired by Michelle Carter and Stephen Gara (led by John Mahon in a tribute to Jack McAndrew) 11:30- 1:30 pm Open Seisiun with The Rising Of The Moon Seisiun Players 12:00 pm Jameson’s Revenge and Sean Griffin (It’s a New York thing, HVIF favorites!) 1:30- 2:00 pm Kelly-Oster School of Irish Dance 2:00 pm Black 47 (In their LAST show in the Hudson Valley 2:00- 2:15 pm Maura Mulligan reads from and FAREWELL HVIF APPEARANCE) Call of The Lark 4:00 pm The Druids (The Rebel’s Return to Peekskill) 2:15- 4:15 pm Open Seisiun with Mary Courtney, Donie Carroll and Guests 5:00 pm ‘The Bard of the Hudson’Tim Murphy & his Friends perform Firefighters Creed 4:15- 4:30 pm Ray O’Hanlon - (Editor Irish Echo) with our Massed Pipe Bands reads from South Lawn Plot 5:45 pm Mundy 4:30- 5:00 pm Kelly-Oster School of Irish Dance (Ireland’s Hitmaker Top single ‘Galway Girl’) 5:00- 7:00 pm Open Seisiun with Don Meade & Tom Dunne During intervals on main stage, our area’s finest Pipe Bands and Step dancers will entertain the main stage area Following a tremendously popular debut in 2012, the Traditional (Schedule subject to change) Session, the remarkable youthful dancers from Kelly Oster School of Irish Dance and a terrific display of Irish art and culture are yours to enjoy once 11:00 am Pipes & Drums of the Firefighters again at the Jack McAndrew Memorial Cultural Tent. This is your chance Emerald Society Of Westchester to enjoy the legendary Rising of the Moon Seisiun, and seisiun standouts (11 am on the nose) Mary Courtney, Donie Carroll. Don Meade, Stephen Gara & Sean Griffin, 11:50 am Pipes & Drums of the as they join John Mahon, Tom Dunne, Michelle Carter, Mike O’Hanlon Police Emerald Society Of Westchester and a host of talented musicians, singers, storytellers and our great local dancers. The tent will also feature readings and book-signings by Irish 3:50 pm Hudson Highlands Pipe Band authors, Ray O’Hanlon (Dublin born Editor of the Irish Echo and author of ‘The South Lawn Plot’ and ‘The New Irish Americans’) and Maura 5:15 pm Massed Pipe Bands for Mulligan (Mayo born author of Firefighter’s Creed with Tim Murphy and ‘Call of the Lark’). Pipe Major Joe Brady The 6th Annual Hudson Valley Irish Festival will feature performances by several top Irish recording artists and bands including Mundy, Black 47, Jameson’s Revenge, Mary Courtney, and Direct from Ireland, The Druids, special surprise artists and featuring Tim Murphy perform- ing the stirring “Firefighter’s Creed.”Our area’s finest Irish step-dancers brought to us courtesy of Unateresa Sheahan Gormely (main stage) and Kelly- Oster Schools of Dance (Jack McAndrew Memorial Tent) and pipe bands will again entertain people of all ages.