South-Central PA Irish Sessions 

This list is subject to change.
Last updated September 29, 2007

Check it out -  we now have a larger variety of sessions than many major U.S. cities.  If you are coming for the first time or traveling a great distance to attend a session, you should verify that the session is still alive & well by contacting the person in right-hand column.  Support these sessions by stopping in for some food and drink.  The bottom of the list shows what happened to 5 Irish sessions over the past couple of years.
Thursday after the 3rd Tuesday of the month  6:00-10:00pm  Flavers Restaurant Elizabethtown, PA Open - Beginner & Intermediate
Contact Eileen Bozarth
embozarth1@comcast.net
 Second Sunday - 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm  Annie Bailey's   Lancaster, PA Location: 28-30 East King Street, Lancaster PA.  Try  EY Murphey ateymurph@yahoo.com  or  717.725.5565 for info.
3rd Friday of the month -
7 pm to
10 pm.
 Middle Ridge Tavern Newport (North of Harrisburg off 322/22) Directions: 322/22 NW as if going to State College from Harrisburg,
see exit for Newport (towards Rte. 34), left turn off exit ramp, go
thru Newport on this road. When it deadends (is this a verb?), right
turn, two blocks later follow yellow lines up hill for 5
miles...Middle Ridge is on the left. (help contact MurphEY at
717.725.5565)
 4th Sunday , 3-5pm NEW!  Molly Brannigan's  2nd & Walnut, Harrisburg, PA louis.lynch [louislynch@paonline.com]
2nd Fri 7:30-10pm Cool Beans Coffee House 141 W High St

Bellefonte, PA

Patty 814.692.8966 esppatty@attglobal.net or call Cool Beans at 814.355.1178
 Every other Wednesday 8-10 pm starting 9/12/07 O'Lordan's Irish Pub  Westminster, MD  Contact Robert Dougherty jigsandreels@adelphia.net  or his wife Toi\ni on 410-635-3551 for more info
Maryland, Virginia & DC area Sessions various various http://members.aol.com/pfod/irishdance/sessions.htm
1st Thursday 7-10pm
CANCELLED as of 9-29-07
If you are a trad player coming thru South-Central PA, give Dan a call or email him to see if there are any private trad sessions occuring.

 

 Spiritfields

 

READ Session Format

619 Baltimore Street Gettysburg, PA 17325

Phone: 717-334-9449

Open - All levels.  Contact Dan Diviney  diviney@embarqmail.com
(717) 624-2542 
1st Wednesday starting April 6, 2005

CANCELLED

Harp & Fiddle York, PA Open - Story telling & Music

Contact Bob Gingerich of Mountain Moon Storytellers [mtnmoon6@suscom.net]

4th Tues 7-10pm
CANCELLED - 2006
Molly's Pub 253 E. Chestnut St,

Lancaster, PA

Check with EY - eymurph@yahoo.com
2nd Tuesday  6:30-9:30pm
CANCELLED - 2007
Coakley's Restaurant and Irish Pub 305 Bridge Street

New Cumberland, PA
(717) 774-5556

Open - All Levels
Contact Len Zaikoski 
lzaikoski@paonline.com
1st & 3rd Sunday    6-9pm CANCELLED  Appalachian Brewing Company Harrisburg, PA Contact Jamie O'Brien
jamie@launies.com
1st Wednesday starting March 3, 2004  CANCELLED  P.J. O'Brien's New Cumberland, PA Open - Beginner & Intermediate
Contact Rodney Owens
rowens@aessuccess.org
4th Tuesday   6:00-10:00pm CANCELLED  Lancaster Brewing Company Lancaster, PA Open - Beginner & Intermediate
Contact Tom Knapp
rhymer@redrose.net
1st Thursday  7-10pm CANCELLED O'Reilly's Pub at 4-Points Sheraton Harrisburg, PA Open - Beginner & Intermediate
Contact Joseph Osborne
osbornej@osbornej.com  717-249-7729
Session etiquette - click on the follwoing links to go to articles discussing session etiquette.
Read about sessions and session etiquette (funny that the word etiquette is French)

http://www.c7r.com/sessionbook/etiquette.html
http://www.oblique-design.demon.co.uk/musicbook/session.html
http://www.mckenna.dk/sessionetikette.htm
http://users.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/sess/ss4.html

The word "seisiun" is the Irish for "session" and in Ireland is synonymous with the gathering of singers and musicians to sing and play songs and music.  What is a seisiun?.

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