June 2025 CCÉ Boston Newsletter

Branch Activities

• Our June seisiún/céilí will be a Family Céilí on Sunday, June 1st, at the Canadian American Club. The schedule will be:
  • 1:00 ~ slow session
  • 2:00 – 3:30 ~ dancing, called by Jackie O’Riley and Rebecca McGowan
  • 3:30 ~ tea break
  • Until 6:30 ~ dancing resumes with regular céilí format
  • Please note the change of time and format!
  • Our June seisiún/céilí will be a Family Céilí on Sunday, June 1st, at the Canadian American Club. The schedule will be:
    • 1:00 ~ slow session
    • 2:00 – 3:30 ~ dancing, called by Jackie O’Riley and Rebecca McGowan
    • 3:30 ~ tea break
    • Until 6:30 ~ dancing resumes with regular céilí format
    • Please note the change of time and format!
• Our set dance classes, held Tuesdays at 7:30 with Barbara Boyd & Alanna Callendrello, are on summer break.  They will resume in September.

Maureen has included an interesting article about the Dudley Street era: Dudley Street: Crossroads of Celtic Music about  the Celtic bands that once filled dancehalls along Dudley Street in Roxbury.

For more than forty years–from the 1920s to the 1960s–Irish, Scottish, and Acadian fiddling bands played to large crowds of immigrants from Ireland and the Canadian Maritime provinces. As a transit hub for the elevated train and streetcar lines, Dudley Square became a magnet for immigrant musicians and fans, a place where traditional Celtic music met new American styles and practices.

Note: The artwork at the top of the page is “At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.”

Community Events

• See many events for April sponsored by our friends in the Greater Boston Irish community in our newsletter, some special for Christmas! Check our Calendar for events any time.