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Sonora Celtic Faire

The 2017, Sonora Celtic Faire, will host the International Ultimate Jousting Championships * Real hard-hitting full contact jousting! No fake dinner show tournament acting! * Featuring some
of the best riders from the world of Jousting. The only Championship Joust on the West Coast of America,
ONLY IN SONORA!!! March 10-12th, 2017

Celtic Heritage Celebration

NOTHING LIKE IT ANYWHERE!
The big 31st Annual Sonora Celtic Faire returns!
Celebrating the cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall, and Wales.
*This year the faire will present 3 stages of Celtic Music featuring: Celtica, Wiked Tinkers, Brick Top Blaggers, Black Irish Band, and many more TBA in the fall.

Jousting on horseback and a large armor foot combat tournament, featuring over 30 competitors.
Celtic living history area featuring over 1000 costume performers acted out 2000 years of Celtic History!
100+ Celtic vendors, craftsman, and artisans showing they wares.
Scottish Bagpipe Bands, Celtic Clans, Irish dogs and more....
Irish step Dancers and Scottish highland dancers.
Traditional foods, Whiskies, and Ale.
Jugglers, Magicians, fire-eaters, and a fire breathing dragon.

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Some of the greatest Celtic Headliners on the Planet!

Celtica Pipes Rock

In 2016, the 7th year of touring all over Europe and North America, from Florida to Alaska, after shows and video shootings in New York City and Hawaii, after 3 albums and over 1,3 million views on YouTube (counting the official videos only), it seemed to be time for a change.

Steamphonia, the upcoming 4th album, takes the listener across time to the Victorian age. A magic moment when aristocratic elegance meets daring visionary passion, the steam engine promises to become the modern gate to Utopia, and here, as a scientist, you are also adventurer and romanticist. Celtica transforms this fantastic epoch into music distilled from Gothic, Steampunk, and Metal styles to break all the traditional limits of the Great Highland Bagpipe, and creates a totally new musical context for this majestic instrument.

WICKED TINKERS

Prepare yourself for a wild ride with WICKED TINKERS! Pioneers of the growing Tribal Celtic movement, the Tinkers have been playing haunting, heart-pounding bagpipes and irresistible tribal drums as a professional touring band since 1995. 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.

The Black Irish Band

The Black Irish Band is celebrating 25 years of performance and twenty-Four CD albums. Hailing from the historic Gold Rush Country of America, the four member Black Irish Band 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.