Irish Celebrations
2025 Irish Day of Dance & St. Patrick’s Day Celebration
Each year, Landmark Center hosts Irish Day of Dance and the annual St. Patrick’s Day Irish Celebration in partnership with Irish Arts Minnesota (IAM). For over 40 years, IAM invites the community to see local musicians, dance performance groups, art exhibitions, and storytellers. In 2017 alone, over 7,000 people from the Twin Cities joined us at the Landmark Center to celebrate Irish-American culture.
Sunday, March 16, 2025 – Day of Irish Dance: 10am-5pm
Monday, March 17, 2025 – St. Patrick’s Day Celebration: 9am-5pm
For detailed information visit the Irish Arts Minnesota Webpage
Food vendors available both days:
The Bad Apple Baker, Rollin Nolen’s BBQ, Ruhland’s Strudel Haus, Sara’s Tipsy Pies, Wonders Ice Cream
Irish Celebrations Schedule of Events 2025
Day of Irish Dance Entertainment Schedule
March 16, 2025
MAIN STAGE:
10:00 AM ~ Rince na Chroi
10:50 AM ~ O’Shea Irish Dance
11:40 AM ~ Cumar na Canadh Croi (The Confluence of the Singing Hearts) – A Cross-Cultural performance combining the traditional music and dance of West Africa and Ireland. Presented by the musicians of Cumar in collaboration with dancers from Duniya Drum and Dance and O’Shea Irish Dance.
12:00 PM ~ Decade of Dance and Double Decade of Dance Awards Presentation
12:15 PM ~ Rince na Gréine Irish Dance
1:05 PM ~ Shamrock School of Irish Step Dance
1:50 PM ~ Eilís Academy of Irish Dance
2:40 PM ~ Rinceoirí Fásta Ag Fás Fós – Grown Dancers Growing – a showcase of adult dancers from Green Fire Irish Dancers, North Star Irish Dance, O’Shea Irish Dance, and Rince na Gréine 3:15 PM ~ Decade of Dance and Double Decade of Dance Awards Presentation
3:30 PM ~ Ardaigh Suas Academy ofIrish Dance (ASA) 4:15 PM ~ Onórach Mulhern Geraghty School ofIrish Dance (OMG)
F.K. WEYERHAEUSER AUDITORIUM:
11:20 AM ~ Pad the Road
12:20 PM ~ Green Fire Irish Dancers
1:15 PM ~ North Star Irish Dance
2:05 PM ~ Willow Brae
Dance, Rince na Chroi and Rince na Gréine
3:05 PM ~ “The Fairie Reclamation” presented by Out of the Mist Celtic Theatre, written by Lisa M W Phelps.
TEA ROOM STAGE:
10:20 AM ~ Pick, Buttons, and Bow
11:15 AM ~ MNá Fiddlers
12:10 PM ~ Redwing Ensemble from the Center for Irish Music
1:05 PM ~ Open Sky Ensemble from the Center for Irish Music
2:00 PM ~ Loma Mor Irish Dance Club with Bundle and Go
2:55 PM ~ Rúpúlaí 3:50 PM ~ Dórain
CHILDRENS STAGE:
11:00 AM ~ Irish Dance for the Wee Ones with Miss Lauren
12:00 PM ~ Instrument Petting Zoo – a chance to try some Irish traditional instruments with Mattie Ernst and Iain Dove McAfee from CIM
1:00 PM ~ Sir Gustave Doc’tain Interactive Storytelling Classic interactive folktales, with plenty of opportunities for audience participation and onstage roles for brave and perhaps not so brave new performers.
SEMINAR ROOM:
2:00 PM ~ Seminar from Gaeltacht MN
3:00 PM ~ Irish Seasonal Celebrations with Jane Kennedy. Learn about the meanings, music and customs associated with Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasa and Samhain.
St. Patrick’s Day Entertainment Schedule
March 17, 2025
MAIN STAGE:
9:00 AM ~ Ross Sutter – Songs and Games
For Kids
9:40 AM ~ Rince na Chroi Irish Dancers
10:25 AM ~ Legacy
11:10 AM ~ Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band
11:25 AM ~ O’Shea Irish Dance
12:10 PM ~ Advanced Youth Ensemble from CIM
12:50 PM ~ Locklin Road
1:40 PM ~ Corda Mór Irish Dance
2:20 PM ~ Rince na Gréine Irish Dance
3:00 PM ~ Waking Murphy (Formerly Too Broke Blokes)
3:40 PM ~ The Inland Seas
4:30 PM ~ Knocknagow Irish Dancers
F. K. WEYERHAEUSER AUDITORIUM:
9:50 AM ~ Irish Diplomacy
10:50 AM ~ The Hounds of Finn
11:45 AM ~ Purgatory Creek
12:40 PM ~ Green Fire Irish Dancers
1:30 PM ~ Eilís Academy of Irish Dance
2:20 PM ~ The McNordiques
3:15 PM ~ Mooncoin Céili Dancers
4:00 PM ~ “The Fairie Reclamation” presented by Out of the Mist Celtic Theatre
TEA ROOM:
9:35 AM ~ An Luan Ensemble from the Center for Irish Music
10:30 AM ~ Aja McCullough
11:25 AM ~ Bundle & Go
12:20 PM ~ Dunquin
1:15 PM ~ Rúpúlaí
2:10 PM ~ Swallowtail Ensemble from the Center for Irish Music
3:05 PM ~ Sona
SEMINAR ROOM:
1:00 PM ~ A Better Nation Through Immigration: Songs By And About Irish Immigrants” with Legacy
2:00 PM ~ ” Birds of the Air, the Sound of the Sea: Nature Inspiration in Irish Music” with Dunquin
3:00 PM ~ “Five Great Stories behind Five Great Tunes” with Chad McAnally
CHILDREN’S STAGE:
9:40 AM ~ Irish Dance Fun for the Wee
Ones with Miss Sarah
10:20 AM ~ Irish Songs and Stories for the little ones with Alisa Mee
11:00 AM ~ Parent and Kid Ceili Dance Party with the Mooncoin Ceili Dancers
11:55 AM ~ Ross Sutter – Songs and Stories