CelticFest Gathering festival goers should get their dancing shoes ready for a toe-tapping, rocking good night out at the Warwick Showgrounds on Saturday 26 March!
In a party event not to be missed, crowd-pleasing, award-winning Irish bands The Gathering and Limerick will take to the ‘Celtic Central’ main stage, to perform rousing, high-energy setlists of traditional sing-along (and dance-along!) Irish tunes, original music, and popular and classic covers from contemporary bands and musicians.
The Gathering has performed at major festivals such as the Port Fairy Folk Fest in Victoria, and its shows at CelticFest and the Club Warwick RSL in March will complete its rollicking roster of St Patrick’s Day gigs for 2022, which will take in venues in Brisbane and the Gold Coast from Saturday 12 March.
“We are so excited to be bringing The Gathering Irish Band to CelticFest Warwick for the very first time,” said Mick McHugh, The Gathering frontman. “Our aim is to have everyone singing and dancing to close the Saturday night out with a bang!”
Meanwhile Limerick is ready to put on a CelticFest show that will get the blood flowing! These four talented musicians are led by fiddle player Mel Coles, who in 2019 represented Australia at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Edinburgh, Scotland, as part of a group of 15 fiddlers. Coles is also the musical director of the Moreton Celtic Fiddle Group, which will open for Limerick and The Gathering at CelticFest.
“We are really looking forward to being a headline act at CelticFest,” said Tim Cody, Limerick’s guitarist and lead vocalist. Limerick will be accompanied by a group of five Shamrock Dancers, from the McNeill Academy of Irish Dance on the Gold Coast – Riverdance fans won’t want to miss this!
There’ll be plenty of music during the day as well, with local bands and musicians joining Limerick, The Gathering and the Brisbane-based Moreton Celtic Fiddle Club to grace the Celtic Central stage in a celebration of Celtic music in all its forms, including the East Street Singers, the Graniteers ukulele group, and The Highlanders.
