IRISH TRADITIONS FAMILY DAY

Sunday, June 13, 1-5 pm
Eisenhart Auditorium, Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14607
Admission $2, free to children 5 and under ($5 per family)
Phone: (585) 473-4000, (585) 234-ERIN
Website: www.artsrochester.org, www.irishrochester.org

Enjoy Irish traditional music, song, dance and storytelling. Learn how Irish traditions are handed down from generation to generation in Rochester. See displays on Irish foodways, textiles, step dance traditions, and Rochester's Irish tradition bearers. Participate in children's activities. Free refreshments will be served.

Co-sponsors are the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester; the Irish Musicians, Dancers, & Singers Association (Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann); and the Irish American Cultural Center for Western New York. This event is made possible with public funds from the Folk Arts Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency, and the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

BALLROOM
1 - 4 pm
Make-It-And-Take-It Art Activities

LOBBY & HALLWAY
1 - 5 pm
Displays & Demonstrations:
- Irish Musicians, Dancers, & Singers Association
- Irish American Cultural Center for Western New York
- Hall of Fame
- Archive Project
- Trace that Tune
- Rochester's Harps Club: Irish Music & Sports in Rochester
- Step Dance Traditions: Costumes & Footwear
- Irish Foodways
- Irish Textile Arts

PALM COURT
1:30-2:00 pm Brian Clancy, Songs in Gaelic
2:00-2:30 pm Helen Doherty & Chris Brennan, Irish Song
2:30-3:00 pm John Finucane, Storytelling
3:00-3:30 pm Marty O'Keefe, Storytelling & Lilting

AUDITORIUM
1:15-1:55 pm Irish Traditional Music (Irish Musicians Association & Celtic Music Society)
2:15-3:15 pm Irish Dance
Set (Irish Musicians Association)
Step Dance (Butler Academy)
Ceili (Shannonside Ceili Dancers)
3:30-4:00 pm Irish Song (Chris Brennan, Helen Doherty & the Irish Musicians Association)
4:15-4:45 pm Irish Traditional Music (Irish Musicians Association)