Céad Míle Fáilte – Welcome to the Burlington Irish Heritage Festival
THANK YOU, everyone who supported the 2024 Festival. Whether through your financial donations, your skills as teachers or performers, your attendance at events, or your assistance to the planning team, you made our 29th celebration of St. Patrick’s week yet another standout. All our events were enthusiastically attended, including the new participatory ones: knitting, baking, ukelele jam, pub singalong, and ‘slow’ music session. Our theme – the centennial of Ireland’s recognition by the USA as an independent country – was represented in an online presentation and discussion, ‘A Nation Once Again,’ which brought attendees from as far away as the Canadian Maritimes. And we’re still glowing with the memory of our highlight feature: the tribute concert for Mick Moloney at Saint Michael’s College, consummately organized by Mark Sustic and bringing together an impressive lineup of celebrated traditional Irish musicians from New England and beyond.
Once again we thank the sponsors who provided venues or other means of support: Saint Michael’s College, Fletcher Free Library, the Vermont Genealogy Library, Worthen Library, Burlington School District, Rí Rá Irish pub, the Saint John’s Club, and Young Tradition at Vermont Folklife. 2024 will be hard year to follow, but stay tuned: the 30th Burlington Irish Heritage Festival will be fast upon us!
The Festival wouldn’t exist without the generosity of our donors. Thank you all, and we hope to meet you at one or more of our events. We are also very grateful to our many sponsors providing venues and other means of support, including the Fletcher Free Library, St. Michael’s College Fine Arts Department, Young Tradition Vermont at Vermont Folklife, the Vermont Genealogy Library, and our longtime friend, Mark Sustic, the powerhouse behind our tribute concert.
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