Event Schedule for 2009 Celtic Festival

Be sure to mark your calendar for the 9th Annual Cortland Celtic Festival to be held in Downtown Cortland on August 21-22, 2009, with a 5k Run on August 23. This fun filled FREE family event offers something for everyone from toddlers who will enjoy seeing all the Celtic breeds of dogs, and Alpacas, to grandparents who will enjoy hearing the traditional music of their childhood.

Don't forget to visit our Performer Bios and Vendor/Sponsor pages.

All our events, including concerts, are FREE to festival visitors!

Friday, August 21, 2009

6:00 - 9:00 pm: Glen Ravel Concert - Royal Auto Concert Tent, Courthouse Park

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Courthouse Park (Church Street)

10:00 Festival Opens
11:00 Deirdre McCarthy, Storyteller

Activities Stationed throughout the Park:
Children's crafts and face painting
History & Geneaology
Food Vendors
Gift Vendors
Clan Tables
Animal Exhibits
Bag Piping

Royal Auto Complex Concert Tent

11:45 Edward P. Maloney Memorial Pipeband, Montague School of Irish Step Dancing
12 Noon: Opening Ceremony
1:00 pm: Traonach
2:00 pm: Pipeband, Irish Step Dancing
3:00 pm: Syracuse Irish Session
5:00 pm: Causeway Giants
5:45 pm: Heavy Athletics Awards - The Ferguson Cup
6:00 - 9:00 pm: Ceann

Cortland Regional Sports Council Field (rear area of Courthouse Park)

11:00am to 5:30pm: Heavy Athletics
Brae mar Stone Toss (28#); Heavy Stone Throw (56#); Weight For Distance event; Sheaf Toss and Caber Toss. Read more about the competition and the athletes >>

Sunday, August 23, 2009

9 am. 5k (3.1 mile) run, 5k walk, or 1 mile Fun Run. Download the Registration Form. $15 early registration/$20 race day registration. For 13 & under, $12 early registration/$15 race day registration. Free t-shirts given to the first 75 registrants! For more information call the YMCA at (607) 756-2893 or e-mail ymca@cortlandymca.org.