Celtic Spring are performing at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas on Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 7 pm. (Doors open 6:30 pm) The Celtic Music Club and Campus Activities Board at Benedictine College are hosting the Celtic Spring Band as a St. Patrick’s Day event for the entire family. Admi...

Snake Saturday is having its 25th Annual Parade on March 14th, 2009. Tom Cummings, Ed.D, Superintendent of North Kansas City Schools, is the 2009 Grand Marshal This year’s theme is “Happy 25th Snake Saturday!” which clearly distuinguishes it from last year’s event. As always,...

The post on the Kansas City Irish Punk Fest on March 13 at the newly vamped Beaumont Club, has been updated with the lineup of bands performing. The festival is posted on the Kansas City Irish events calendar. See St Patrick’s Day events in Kansas City. See Also:    • Padd...

The New Yorker has an article on Van Morrison, in Manhattan for a couple of those Astral Weeks performances, where prompted by a jukebox he talks about some of the first records he listened to in Belfast. On the legendary list is Kansas City’s Big Joe Turner. Lakeside Lounge, on Avenue B, is k...

March is nothing in Irish events in Kansas City, if not spectacular, and this year March brings you The Irish Spectacular in a presentation by the Harriman-Jewell Series at the Folly Theater on Friday, March 6, 2009 at 8pm. This Irish and Celtic music celebration is performed by the Dublin Philharmo...

Pub rockers with a punk energy and working class harmonies, The Kelihans play O’Malley’s Irish pub in Weston this weekend, Friday 6th February, 2009 and Saturday February 7th, 2009 - both shows at 8pm. And what is it that these Kelihan people do; what is their story you ask? Birthed from...

Irish KC has progressed to the next stage of the Irish Blog Awards - being longlisted. Following being nominated in the category for Best Arts & Culture Blog, the longlists were announced on Tuesday evening. Last year Irish KC made it onto the short list for one of the awards, the since discont...

The Kelihans are playing at what is termed the Punk Irish Fest in Kansas City on March 13, 2009 in Westport’s Beaumont Club at 8pm. I make that a Friday. The Kelihans say that it “should be fun-no holds barred” which is as strong a definition of fun as you’re likely to see. T...

The Young Wolfetones, with Derek Warfield of the old, and legendary, WolfeTones, are performing in Kansas City at Redemptorist Gym on Friday, February 27th, 2009. Sponsored by the AOH, the KCSPDPC, and Redemptorist, the evening is a fundraiser for the renovation of the damaged grotto at the church, ...

Just letting any feed readers out there who follow this feed for the Non-KC stuff that they’ll probably want to change to the Bicyclistic feed about now, because this feed is about to get all Kansas City and generally Irish on your ass. If you are interested in Irish news in Kansas City and be...