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Vancouver: Try Your Irish Luck
Celtic Fest Vancouver, running from March 12 through 16, has a solid assortment of Irish music, including a fiddle festival and a ceilidh (pronounced "kay-lay"—Gaelic for dance party) featuring the Battlefield Band of Scotland. (Wait—Scotland? In the band’s defense, they are acclaimed purveyors of progressive Celtic music.) For something different, you can enter the Lucky Charms Poker Tournament on March 12, or watch poets engage in a lyrical smackdown at the Battle of the Bards on March 13, featuring actors playing Dylan Thomas, Robbie Burns, and William Butler Yeats. A kids’ area in the Celtic Village, on Granville Street, offers both bagpipe and medieval fencing demonstrations. For More Information: Celtic Fest Vancouver.
