Once again, the 19th annual Burlington Irish Heritage Festival (BIHF) celebrates St. Patrick’s season by bringing you the best of Irish culture through song, dance and words. This year features the old favorites along with several innovative events that we think you will love. Check http://www.burlingtonirishheritage.org/festival-2014 for more detailed listings of events.

Our Festival is made possible largely thanks to close collaboration with our valued long-time partners, Young Tradition Vermont (Mark Sustic)  www.youngtraditionvermont.org and The McFadden Academy of Irish Dance. We thank Fletcher Free Library once again for generously giving space to several of our weekend events. We are also grateful to our new partners: the Vermont Genealogy Library for their Irish Genealogy workshop; and North End Studios for co-sponsoring an Irish Dinner. As always, our thanks to Ri Ra Irish Pub for their sponsorship.

The sale of Raffle tickets is the main fundraiser which allows us to offer many events free of charge, or by donation. Please buy your tickets soon to support the BIHF: the Grand Prize is a free round-trip airfare for two to Ireland.  Raffle tickets are only available until sold out - and we did sell out in 2013!

The BIHF Committee  thanks you for your support over the years, and we look forward to seeing you at this year's Festival!  We welcome your questions and feedback, and we encourage you to consider joining the BIHF Committee to plan our 2015 Festival - or to volunteer during the Festival. You can sign up at our website:  www.burlingtonirishheritage.org.  Or contact us at bihfadmin@gmail.com if you’d like to receive email updates of coming events throughout the year. 

GRAND PRIZE  • Drawing of Festival Raffle Tickets at the END OF THE CEILI