Special Events

Saturday 6th November @ Memorial Hall - The Australian Welsh Choir & Claymore. The Australian Welsh Male Choir is a gathering of predominantly Welsh expatriates who have toured internationally thrilling their audiences with song.

Claymore’s reputation as outstanding entertainers has led them to perform at many local and international festivals, they have performed in New York, Scotland, France at the" Festival Interceltique", the largest Celtic festival in the world many times, New Zealand, Sydney, Melbourne, Launceston Tasmania, National Celtic Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival, QueensCliff Music Festival, Big Blues Day Out, Perth International Arts Festival, Brunswick Music Festival and many more. The band has played many live radio and television performances in Australia and overseas.

Workshops

Workshops to be held in various locations to be confirmed!

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FROM Previous Events

Behold the Bard poetry competition on Sunday morning was a triumph and will be part of the 2009 festival. We hope to see repeat performers and new blood.

Celtic Celebration!

How green was her mantle
In the granite of the town
She sang the Celtic song of olde
The pipes marched up and down

Harps were played, dancers tapped
Coloured flags did flutter fast
The Historic town of Beechworth
Regaling in it’s past

The Bards stood on the balcony
Reciting their poems to the throng
Campbell, Rowan, Rhonda & Bill
Some words became a song

Workshops they attended
Penny whistle, fiddle, drum
You could hear the mirth of mishaps
Amongst the rattle and hum

Sitting quietly for the musical
Ancestral thoughts did stir
For past lives persecuted
Celts suffer thankfully no more

Then up struck the bodhran
With hankies tucked away
We clapped and cheered en masse
To the rhythm of the day

Three days they did but come
To the town this last November
For a Celtic Celebration
Of the likes we’d all remember

Once we’d sung the Parting Glass
And the visitors gone home
The streets again lay quiet
Till next year again they come.

Pheona Donaldson 2007