What To Expect At Butte's An Ri Ra Irish Festival

Music, dancing, genealogy, fun and laughter are all a big part of the annual An Ri Ra Montana Irish Festival that gets underway this Friday and runs through Sunday at sites centered around the Original Mineyard in Historic Uptown Butte. Here is a look at this year's master schedule, events are subject to change;

FRIDAY

9:30am - Genealogy - "Ties That Bind; Tracing Ancestry from Beara to Butte" with Dorothy Brophy of the Allhies Copper Mine Museum at Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives.
1pm - Flag Raising/Opening Ceremony at Butte-Silver Bow County Courthouse
2:30pm - Dublin Gulch at Original Mineyard
3:50pm - Tiernan Irish Dancers of Butte at Original Mineyard
4:30pm - Butte - Beara Educational Exchange at Original Mineyard
5:30pm - Rory Makem at Original Mineyard
6:50pm - Teada at Original Mineyard
8:10pm - Trinity Irish Dancers at Original Mineyard
9:00pm - The Elders at Original Mineyard

SATURDAY

9:00am - Road Bowling - meet at Anselmo Mineyard Path on Excelsior Street
9:00-11:00am - Irish Language Workshop at Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives
10:00am - Speaker Series: Magic of Butte with Mary Sheehy Moe at Butte Brewing Company
11:00am - Speaker Series: From Beara to Butte: A Legacy of Connection - Panel of Allihies representatives and local descendants of Beara Peninsula at Butte Brewing Company
12:00pm - Montana Irish Dance - Carroll-Henderson School of Irish Dance of Missoula & Tiernan Irish Dancers of Helena at Original Mineyard
1:00pm - Trinity Irish Dancers at Original Mineyard
1:30pm - Dillon Junior Fiddlers at Original Mineyard
2:30pm - Rory Makem at Original Mineyard
3:30pm - Tiernan Irish Dancers at Original Mineyard
4:20pm - Trinity Irish Dancers at Original Mineyard
5:00pm - Trinity Irish Dance Workshops at St. Mary's Church
5:00pm - Dubliin Gulch at Orignal Mineyard
6:20pm - Teada at Original Mineyard
7:40pm - Trinity Irish Dancers at Original Mineyard
8:20pm - The Elders at Original Mineyard
9:40pm - The Scattering at Original Mineyard

SUNDAY

12:30pm - Outdoor Irish Catholic Mass at Original Mineyard
2:00pm - Hurling Exhibition Match with the Thomas Meaher Hurling Club and the Wolfe Tones at Torger Oaas Field at the Maroon Activities Center.

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