January 2020
Sunset City Zoo 2: Music + Art for the Sunset
Coming off the successful Sunset City Zoo in Summer of 2019, The Center is featuring three local bands from the Sunset and a guest band from San Diego. Sunset City 2 introduces Art into the mix, so we now have a music and art session. The music and art series is meant to appeal to the young adults in The Sunset or SF area, but is open to anyone! Tickets are $5 in advance and $10 on day of show.…
Find out more »Comhaltas Set Dancing Class
Main Bar area For info call Josephine Brogan 415-264-8856
Find out more »The Paperboys @ The Center
Tickets: https://uiccevents.vbotickets.com/event/The_Paperboys/40857 Members (Advance Purchase): $20 Non-Members (Advance Purchase): $25 The United Irish Cultural Center is proud to announce The Paperboys will appear downstairs at The Center on our new immersive stage on The Emerald Level. We will have a full-bar, seating on three levels and you should be ready for a great night out @ The Center! The Paperboys are a Canadian folk music band from Vancouver that formed in 1991.The Paperboys blend Celtic folk with bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, zydeco,…
Find out more »ILHS: Galway University Scholar Chris McCann
Galway University Scholar Chris McCann will discuss Revealing Social Hierarchy Through Music in Irish Literature, a project supported by the Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Award. This discussion addresses Irish musical-literary responses to the challenges posed by social and spatial hierarchies across the last century. It surveys music as a device in the works of diverse authors, from Joyce and Seán Ó Faoláin to Breandán Ó hEithir and Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, and assesses how music functions between text…
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Comhaltas Set Dancing Class
Main Bar area For info call Josephine Brogan 415-264-8856
Find out more »February 2020
Discovering Antartica: Heroic Tales of Shackleton, Crean and Scott
The United Irish Cultural Center is proud to host a play about Tom Crean: The Irish man who went to the Antarctic 3 times with Shackleton and Scott. “Discovering Antartica: Heroric Tales of Shackleton, Crean and Scott” Set during The Golden Age of Antarctic Exploration (1901–16), discover the riveting true stories of Shackleton and Scott through the eyes of Tom Crean, who was at the center of 3 of the most daring & challenging expeditions to the great white continent…
Find out more »The Black Brothers @ The Center
The repertoire of the Brothers is very broad and includes old Dublin street songs, music hall songs and historical ballads, songs from the Irish, English and Scottish traditions, along with songs by contemporary writers. Shay and Michael are close harmony singers, with a special fondness for songs that include their audience in chorus, and many of the songs are narratives with stories. The performances include a lot of up tempo reels and jigs, along with some mighty fine dancing from…
Find out more »March 2020
St. Patrick’s Day In Ireland 2020
A “great celebration of Ireland and its rich culture!” - Irish News and Entertainment A “great celebration of Ireland and its rich culture!” (Irish News and Entertainment) comes to Lobero Theatre! Featuring principal dancers Connor Reider (The Chieftains, Celtic Fyre, Celtic Wings) and Carrie Stotmeister (Celtic Wings, An Irish Christmas, St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland) and multi-instrumentalists from the Kerry Traditional Band led by the great Ryan McKasson on fiddle along with Colin Cotter, guitar, vocals, Christa Burch, vocals, bodhrán and…
Find out more »Sharon Shannon @ The Center
Tickets: https://uiccevents.vbotickets.com/ The lady who made Galway Girl famous is coming to The Center! After the Parade / after the Corned Beef dinner... Sharon Shannon is a former member of seminal Scots-Irish band THE WATERBOYS and a celebrated solo Artist. The last few years for Sharon have included worldwide airplay with the song GALWAY GIRL from the HILARY SWANK FILM ‘PS I LOVE YOU’. Sharon also performed live for President OBAMA when he visited Ireland in the summer of 2011…
Find out more »April 2020
Aoife Scott @ The Center
Tickets: https://uiccevents.vbotickets.com/events Aoife Scott is an award winning folk singer and songwriter based in Dublin, Ireland. Born into the legendary Black family – Aoife is steadily rising to the top of the traditional and folk music scene. Fragile and ethereal one minute and strong and vibrant the next, Aoife has a dynamic and profound voice, which explores the emotional depths of her lyrics, leaving the audience entranced. Her music has a broad creative scope but is largely influenced by her own…
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