NTIF 2025 - Performers

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  • Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas

    Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas

    The musical partnership between consummate performer Alasdair Fraser, and brilliant California cellist Natalie Haas ...
  • ALTAN

    Altan

    No Irish traditional band in the last dozen years has had a wider impact on audiences and music lovers throughout th...
  • BEHAN

    BEHAN

    Irish music has always been about family – family by blood and family by friendship. Anyone in North Texas who has ...
  • Beyond The Pale

    Beyond The Pale

    The band is grounded in the traditional roots music of Ireland, and Scotland with imaginative ventures across musica...
  • Boxing Robin

    Boxing Robin

    Boxing Robin is a trad music duo currently based out of Birmingham, Alabama, who play folk music from Ireland, Scotl...
  • Catherine Koehler

    Catherine Koehler

    Catherine Koehler has been singing and performing for over 50 years. Her piano teacher first recognized that her voi...
  • Cathie Ryan

    Cathie Ryan

    For over thirty-five years, including multiple studio recordings, musical collaborations, and awards, Cathie Ryan ha...
  • Celtic Aire

    Celtic Aire

    Celtic Aire is the premier Celtic and folk ensemble of the United States Air Force. Formed in 2007, the group is com...
  • Celtic Standard Time

    Celtic Standard Time

    Celtic Standard Time, a high-energy, acoustic instrumental trio based in D/FW, plays traditional Irish, Scottish, Ca...
  • Cherish The Ladies

    Cherish The Ladies

    Celebrating the incredible milestone of 40 years as one of planet’s most heralded Irish ensembles, Cherish the Ladie...
  • CLEGHORN

    CLEGHORN

    The musical engine of CLEGHORN is renowned fiddler Dylan Cleghorn and his father, the legendary Texas guitarist John...
  • Conor Mallon Unearthed

    Conor Mallon Unearthed

    Mallon’s debut solo album has exploded on to the folk/traditional scene, featuring mostly his own compositions. ...
  • Emerald Accent

    Emerald Accent

    This well-rounded Mississippi band is equally at home playing for festivals, dances, weddings and concerts. They hav...
  • Gary Whitaker

    Gary Whitaker

    Gary Whitaker the Storyman is a master storyteller who has performed in schools, libraries and at festivals all over...
  • GoldRing

    GoldRing

    GoldRing features award winning harpist Therese Honey and Irish flute player Larry Mallette. The duo has performed a...
  • Jane McDaniel

    Jane McDaniel

    Formerly economics and news journalist in English, German and Irish on radio and print, pofessional storyteller sinc...
  • Jiggernaut

    Jiggernaut

    Celtic rock from the heart of Texas. Bagpipes AND vocals. Songs AND tunes. Love and respect for Celtic tradition fus...
  • Kathleen Jackson

    Kathleen Jackson

    Kathleen Jackson was brought up in a musical household. Her father, brother, and uncles taught her to play and sing,...
  • Kathryn and Rusty Powell

    Kathryn & Rusty Powell

    Kathryn & Rusty Powell enjoy connecting with their Celtic roots, through old tales and tunes and performing with oth...
  • KinFolk

    Kinfolk

    KinFolk is the Fleming family – Peggy, Ken, Kevin, and Katie – and Sam Hatch who have combined forces to become one ...
  • Linda King and Michael Harrison

    Linda King-Michael Harrison

    Performing both as solo performers, former members of the band Amberhawke, and as a duo, their special blend of chil...
  • Mark Clavey

    Mark Clavey

    Since his childhood, Mark Clavey has performed in venues as diverse as award-winning choral and theatrical ensembles...
  • C Micheal Price

    C. Micheal Price

    A regular since 1995 at the North Texas Irish Festival, Texan Micheal Price brings a wide variety of talents and exp...
  • Miriam's Music Room

    Miriam’s Music Room

    Miriam fell in love with the Celtic harp at the tender age of five while visiting County Claire, Ireland. Having no ...
  • North Texas Celtic Strings

    North Texas Celtic Strings

    North Texas Celtic Strings is educational music program for kids and adults! This program has roots into Greater Nor...
  • Pirate Irish Queen

    Pirate Irish Queen

    Story Teller at Art festivals and shows. Story Time at local Fort Worth Library with pre school children. Story Tell...
  • Plunk Murray

    Plunk Murray

    Dallas-based Plunk Murray is five friends that love music and are bound together by it, and by the belief that Celti...
  • Rathmore

    Rathmore

    Fiddle and electric guitar combined with a fantastic rhythm section and two vocalists make Rathmore a standout in th...
  • Reel Treble and Friends

    Reel Treble and Friends

    Are you ready for some Foot Stomping Tunes? They play traditional up-tempo tunes from Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton a...
  • River Driver

    River Driver

    Driven by guitarist Michael Logan and fiddler Shelly New, River Driver originally emerged in 2020 out of a shared lo...
  • Skeleton McKee

    Skeleton McKee

    Skeleton McKee brings the best of rock and rollicking Celtic roots/folk/rock, pub songs, and a wee bit of trad, blue...
  • Slugger's Rule

    Slugger’s Rule

    Slugger’s Rule own brand of Celtic and folk music began around the campfire. It started off getting together around ...
  • Sombati

    Sombati

    Fort Worth's Sombati brings you traditional Irish and Scottish tunes, delightful waltzes and ballads from the Celtic...
  • The Canterberries

    The Canterberries

    The Canterberries are an indie/folk female trio composed of lifelong friends, Abby Parra, Hannah Dahlor and Emma Vog...
  • The Consequences

    The Consequences

    Driven by a passion for exploring the colors and complexities of Irish music, The Consequences are a new Irish tradi...
  • The Whalers

    The Whalers

    The Whalers feature Rodger Harrison on guitar, Kathleen Jackson driving the rhythm on ‘Fred’, a 1934 Kay upright bas...
  • Thomas “Doc” Grauzer

    Thomas “Doc” Grauzer

    Thomas “Doc” Grauzer is a harper and storyteller of the Irish tradition, living in Austin, Texas. His playing brings...
  • Threadneedle St.

    Threadneedle St

    Threadneedle St is a four-member band based in Fort Worth, Texas, specializing in the traditional music of Ireland, ...
  • Vulcan Eejits

    Vulcan Eejits

    Mostly Irish traditional music, but also some Scottish, English, and other. Great tunes for dancing as well as a var...
  • Wolf Loescher and The Growlers

    Wolf Loescher and The Growlers

    Wolf Loescher is a singer / storyteller based in Longmont, Colorado. He sings songs and tells stories from the Old W...
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