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Sacramento Area Celtic Calendar - Sacramento Callie Club Page - Sacramento St Andrews - Scottish American Military Society

Jamison - Click Here for the new Google Celtic Calendar

 

Sessions are now included on the Celtic Calendar

Click Here for Calendar of Celtic Music events

 

 

Links to N California Music Venues:

 

 

Mostly Celtic Website  Click on the Music button for SF Bay and Santa Cruz Area venues

 

Traditional Celtic Music In the San Francisco & Monterey Bay Areas

 

Venues in Northern California from the Fresno Folklore Society

 

Fire on the Mountain  Music Festivals

 

Rusty Sword Productions  Music Festivals and Ren Faires

 

 

Sacramento Valley:

 

Welsh Church Evensong service - Saint Paul's Episcopal Church 15th & J, SACRAMENTO. - 1st Wednesday of each month, 7:30 pm - 916 363-9518 

 

Fox and Goose - Sacramento Corner of 10th and R - 1001 R Street Sacramento, Ca 95814  (916) 443-8825

 

Irish Traditional Session - Wednesdays, 7-10 pm  Delta of Venus Cafe & Pub, 122 B Street, Downtown DAVIS  Info: marymlogan(at)yahoo.com or call 530-400-6775

 

Irish Traditional Music session and dance - Musicians, Dancers, and Punters welcome - Each Friday 3:30 –7:30 p.m. - Duffy's Tavern, 337 Main St (4th and Main), CHICO - 530 343 7718

 

Northern California Harp Ring Monthly Harp Circle - First Sunday of the Month – CHICO - Janice Williams  530-893-8026 nchr(at)sbcglobal.net

 

Constable Jack's - 515 Main St, Newcastle (916) 663-9385

 

Pete and Pat's World Kitchen Latitudes Restaurant  130 Maple Street in AUBURN  

 

The Center for the Arts, 314 W Main St, Grass Valley, CA  95945   530.274.8384

 

 

 

San Francisco:

 

Plough & Stars Pub -- 116 Clement Street (near Second Avenue), San Francisco 751-1122 -  Plough and Stars

 

Johnny Foley's pub near Union Square, San Francisco.

 

An Bodhran, Haight at Steiner, San Francisco. (Sunday afternoon seisiuns);  668 Haight St., 431-4724 -

 

The Blackthorn Tavern, 834 Irving Street, San Francisco - Culann's Hounds' home in San Francisco.

 

Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub, 519 Jackson Street, San Francisco (415) 955-1916.

 

Jack's Bar, The Cannery, San Francisco.;

 

The Abbey Tavern, 4100 Geary Blvd at 5th Ave, San Francisco

 

United Irish Cultural Centre, 2700 45th Avenue (at Sloat Boulevard), San Francisco - (415) 661-2700

 

O'Reilly's Irish Pub and Restaurant, 622 Green Street, San Francisco, 989-6222
 

O'Reilly's Holy Grail , 1233 Polk Street, San Francisco

 

The Chieftain Irish Pub and Restaurant - 198 5th St., San Francisco, 615-0916

 

Irish Bank  - 10 Mark Lane (off Bush St.), San Francisco, 788-7152

 

Pat O'Sheas Mad Hatter and Ireland's 32 - Both on Geary Avenue near Third Avenue

 

Buena Vista Cafe - 2765 Hyde Street at Beach, San Francisco, 474-5044
 

Wild Oscar's  - 1900 Folsom, San Francisco, 621-7145
 

The San Francisco Pipers Club

 

 

S F South Bay:

 

O'Flaherty's Irish Pub in downtown San Jose every Tuesday night from 6:30 until 10:00. Contact session host, Julie Horner at 408-422-1463 or clanstewart3(at)yahoo.com.

 

White Cockade Scottish Pub in Boulder Creek on the first and third Sundays. Interested parties should contact session host, Greg Roe at sessions(at)gregroe.com.

 

Finn McCools Irish Pub, 213 El Camino Real, Millbrae - Bar Phone: 650.697.2403 

 

Sunnyvale & Mountain View: Molly & Fibbar Magees.

 

The Grand Dell Saloon, 1040 Dell Ave. in Campbell, also around 8pm and (408) 378-3970
 

There are slow to medium play, for the most part, sessions, starting at 7pm, at a private home in Cupertino on the 2nd Sunday of the month. For info call Angeline at (408) 799-0314.
 

The Fox Theatre, 2209 Broadway, Redwood City (650) 369-4119

 

Towles Cafe , BURLINGAME - Great food and Celtic music 1401 Burlingame Ave. (650)344-1462

 

 

S F North Bay and Mendocino Coast:
 

Wednesday Main Street Station, located at 16280 Main Street, in Guerneville  from 6:30 to 9:00 PM.  Call (707) 869-0501 or email pizza@mainststation.com for details.

 

St. Isabella's Parish Hall, 1 Trinity Way, San Rafael (Terra Linda off Freitas Parkway) starting at 7:00pm Call (415) 497-8656 or email MarinIrishCeili@lucasvalley.net for play list and directions.

 

Murphy's Irish Pub, 464 First Street East, Sonoma. Murphy's has its schedule on the WWW.
 

SAN RAFAEL, Box Office 415 499-6800 


The Mayflower Pub, located at, 1533 Fourth Street, San Rafael

 

The Black Rose - 2074 Armory Dr. SANTA ROSA - 707.546.7673

 

Sebastopol Community Center

 

Caspar Inn - 14957 Caspar Rd. Caspar (707) 964-5565

 

 

S F East Bay:

 

Mr. Pickwick's British Pub & Restaurant 4633 Clayton Road, Concord, CA   (925) 459-0574     No cover charge

 

San Leandro - sessions at a house one Sunday each month. See schedule at http://daphneyland.com/seisiuns/

 

FREMONT - Brask House Concert - 2041 Valorie St. 

 

Freight & Salvage on Addison (just off San Pablo one block south of University Ave. Berkeley.

 

Sally Greenberg's House Concerts in Berkeley. These concerts tend to feature English and Scottish music in a great, intimate setting (limited to 40 people).

 

Starry Plough Pub, in Berkeley on Shattuck Ave (south of Ashby) . The Starry Plough has informal sessions every Sunday night starting at 8:00 organized by Shay Black.

 

The Adelphian Center for the Arts, 2167 Central Ave, Alameda (51) 748-8181. This is a lovely venue with nice acoustics, people who come to hear the music (and beer!).

 

 

Monterey and Santa Cruz:

 

The Britannia Arms, 8017 Soquel Ave. in Aptos from 7pm to 9pm & on the 3rd Sunday of the month, from 2pm to 4pm, at NOAA Building on the UCSC Marine Science Campus. For info call Winona at 426-9113.

 

St. Andrew Presbyterian Church: 9850 Monroe Avenue, Aptos, CA 95003 just off Soquel.  WWW.MYSPACE.COM/SAINTANDREWCELTICMUSICNIGHT  

 

There is a new session every Sunday in Gilroy at The Claddagh Irish Restaurant & Pub, 1300 First St., from 5pm to 9pm. For info, contact The Claddagh at (408) 848-5050, the claddagh@yahoo.com or visit www.thecladdagh.net.

There is a session in Monterey on the 3rd Sunday of the month at Duffy's Tavern, 282 High St. in Monterey beginning at 3pm. For info, call Tam at 626-0666.

The London Bridge Pub, Fisherman's Wharf #2 in Monterey from 8pm to 10pm. For info, contact Glen at Zenfiddler@yahoo.com.

There are 'Mostly Celtic Sessions' twice a week. On Tuesdays at CB Hannegan's, 208 Bachman Ave. in Los Gatos which begin around 8pm and you can call (408) 395-1233 for info

 

Monterey Live - 414 Alvarado St., Monterey (831)646-1415

 

Don Quixote's International Music Hall, 6275 Hwy. 9 in Felton ( 831 ) 203-2294

 

The Monterey Celtic Arts Academy hold monthly Bagpipe Nights on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at The Music Building at York School in Monterey from 5pm to 6pm. For more information call Wendy at 633-4444 or Michel at 372-2020.

 

 

Fresno and San Joaquin Valley:


Full Circle Brewery,  620 F St. FRESNO,  
 

Fagan's Irish Pub, 2039 Kern St. (corner of Van Ness) FRESNO
 

Crossroads, 3315 N. Cedar Ave, Fresno, CA 93726

 

Bob Pierce Club Fred, 1426 N. Van Ness, Fresno, CA   (559) 233-FRED

 

Fresno Folklore

 

Fox Theatre, 326 North Irwin St., Hanford  (559) 584-7823  

 

Fat Cat, 930 11th St., Modesto (209) 524-1400

 

 

Nevada:

 

Wild Sage - Every Monday from noon to 2pm at Comma Coffee, 312 South Carson St., CARSON CITY, Nevada, across from the state legislature.  Call Comma Coffee at 883-2662.  - kingtildrum(at)earthlink.net, or cdadbayer(at)aol.com