Posted on 12/12/23
This larger than life personality has been a professional Master of Ceremonies for many years in the Coffee and Entertainment Industries. His witty charm will have you captivated and informed in all aspects of the Black Oak stage's merriments for the event. Don't be shy, get up and join in the festivites of the faire.
In Tony's career as a MC, he has had the honor to provide his unique speaking talent at some of the most pristine events in the world. Some of those events include the South West Regional Barista Competitions (many times), United States Barista Championship, and the All Hallows Fantasy Faire.
Posted on 11/25/2025
Prepare yourself for a wild ride with WICKED TINKERS. Pioneers of the growing Tribal Celtic movement, Wicked Tinkers have been playing haunting, heart-pounding bagpipes and irresistable, tribal drums as a professional band since 1995 and for many years before that at parties, renaissance faires and on various street corners. With the addition several years back of the mesmerizing drone of the australian didgeridoo and bronze-age Irish horn the magic was complete.
Sit back and be transported to an earlier time in Scotland and Ireland when battle cries filled the air and strange, unheard-of creatures roamed the night. Or better yet, get on your feet and let your body move to ancient rhythms and forgotten sounds. Don’t think that this is dry, dusty music for museum shelves- the boys in the band merge the best of modern, almost rock and roll energy with the hypnotic, insistent grooves of their gaelic ancestors. Rare is the bystander who comes away without feeling a surprising, sometimes bewildering connection with long-forgotten, primal emotions and half- memories of ages past and experiences unknown and yet somehow familiar. This is music to set your jaw, put a fire in your belly, a glint in your eye and a dance in your feet.
The WICKED TINKERS bring their vitality and humor to stages across America. They were on national television: THE GONG SHOW, THE LATE LATE SHOW with CRAIG FERGUSON. Touring the U.S. for most of the year, they have made friends and fans from all over the world at some of the largest Highland Games, including: Pleasanton in California; the Pacific Northwest Scottish Highland Games in Enumclaw, Washington; the Texas Highland Games in Arlington, Texas; festivals in Estes Park, Colorado, and Las Vegas, Nevada; as far east as the Oklahoma Highland Games; the Kentucky Scottish Weekend; the Rhode Island Celtic Festival; and the Mid-Winter Scottish-Irish Festival and Fair in Pennsylvania.
“heart-swelling music from a group called the Wicked Tinkers” – Mike McDaniel, Houston Chronicle
"Music that truly isn't about being pretty, it's about being forceful and filled with rhythms of life." - Chuck Thurman, The Coast Weekly
"A sound powerhouse!" - Antje Depone, Monterey County Herald
"The Celtic bagrock band ... the bagpipe-and-drums answer to The Clash! ... They play like their sporrans have been set ablaze!" - Dean Bonzani, Flagstaff Live
WICKED TINKERS sound is the distillation of the passion of a people and their music. Like a fine, smoky Scotch whisky, it's a little rough around the edges but unmistakably the real thing.
Posted on 12/12/2025
O’Connell Street is a premier Irish pub band specializing in traditional Celtic music, contemporary Irish music, and American roots music that is Irish or Celtic in its origins.
Whether you yearn to hear traditional jigs, reels, and ballads or your taste runs to interpretations of songs by Van Morrison, the Pogues, Flogging Molly, or Celtic Thunder. O’Connell Street offers tunes for everyone
Posted on 12/12/2025
We play whatever we want whenever we want:
mostly Celtic, a lot of folk rock, and a bit of blues,
kids’ participatory music, bawdy ballads.
This Trio has been a longtime folk band Of Celtic Faire!
Posted on 12/12/2025
The Katie Jane Band is a high-energy Celtic fiddle band from Portland, OR. Known as "Portland's hottest fiddler," Katie Jane's dynamic performance features virtuosic, high-speed fiddling, her contagious smile, and unstoppable dancing feet.
The Katie Jane Band performs traditional and original fiddle music spanning Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Canada, and the USA. Their music takes listeners on a joyful journey through the folklore of Celtic music, and their engaging storytelling relates the audience to the sweetness of everyday human experience.
Official Youtube channel: UN known
Posted on 12/12/2025
Performing on Saturday, March 7th, Main Stage (Black Oak)
Erica & Friends are an East Bay based folk band performing an eclectic mix of traditional Celtic songs, foot-stomping jigs and reels, and modern songs from the UK. They mix the old with new with great energy, wonderful vocals and harmonies and stellar musicianship.
This band will be a great addition to our 40 year celebration!
Posted on 12/17/25
(First performed at the Celtic Faire in 1990)
When you take Irish, Scottish, Spanish, and Italian Music, and mix it up, you get the true nature of the Black Irish Band.
For thirty years this band has created an original sound that no other band has. With over 1000 concert performances to date and airplay around the world, the band has kept very busy spreading their brand of progressive folk music to a large audience. Performing both traditional and original music the band is very focused on presenting acoustic music in a very exciting up-beat way that appeals to all ages.
The band has written and recorded 96 original songs that appear on many of the bands twenty-one CD recordings. Many of the original works written by the band are based on Celtic history. Hailing from the historic Gold Rush Country of America, the four member Black Irish Band of twenty years, have a musical style that is as timeless as the rugged landscape of the west, a tribute to the people whose lives were spent building the world we now take for granted. The band has a large compliment of traditional maritime and railroad music, as well as ethnic tunes in their repertoire. They excel at Irish & Scottish, Italian, and American folk music with an assortment of original songs and traditional western ballads. The bands musical style captures the spirit of the immigrants of this land, the men and women who tamed the Wild West.
Posted on 03/17/2025
Golden Bough marked their 40 year anniversary in 2020. Paul Espinoza, Margie Butler and Kathy Sierra blend their voices in pristine harmony, while backing themselves on an array of rare and more common acoustic instruments, including: Celtic harp, penny-whistle, violin, octave-mandolin, mandolin, accordion, guitar, viola, harmonica, recorder and bodhran.
Posted on 03/17/2025
Cooking With Turf is a traditional Celtic band that can play the rollicking reels and jigs, as well as the sweet and sensitive waltzes and songs.
Posted on 1/11/26
Fresno Stag and Thistle Pipes & Drums