 Kansas City Irish Fest Celtic Festivals in the USA in 2022Many peoples from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, and Brittany emigrated to the USA over the past 400 years bringing with them many Celtic traditions and culture. Irish heritage is widespread in America, with more than 31.5 million people claiming Irish ancestry, second only to Germans (43.0 million). More than 5 million people in the United States claim Scottish ancestry. There are an estimated two million people of Cornish heritage, which is over four times the current population of Cornwall. Welsh heritage was traced to 1.98 million people in the United States. And when it comes to US presidents, half of them (23), including incumbent President Joe Biden, have Irish ancestors. An astonishing 34 have been of either Scottish or Ulster-Scots descent. Today, you can find thousands of Celtic themed bars, restaurants, organizations based in the USA. This Celtic diaspora is very active in organizing Celtic Festival across the 50 states of the USA. Scroll below to find below a list of Celtic festivals in the USA. 🇮🇪🏴🏴🇮🇲  What is a Celtic Festival?Celtic festivals honor Celtic culture, which can be expressed through dancing, Celtic music, gastronomy, Celtic art, or other means in current times. Religious and seasonal festivities such as bonfires, harvest festivals, storytelling and music festivals, and dance festivals were all part of ancient Celtic festivals. Important dates in the Celtic calendar that are often celebrated include: St Brigid's Day - Imbolc, Burn's Night, St David's Day, St Andrew's Day, St Yves's Day, St Andrew's Day, St Patrick's Day, Tartan Day, May Day - Bealtaine, Summer Solstice, Fall Equinox, Samhain, Winter Solstice, In the USA, Celtic festivals often include music concert stages and loads of opportunity to eat and drink Celtic foods and beverages, like beer and whisky. You'll also find stands and booths with crafts, jewelry, and celtic made clothes. Depending on the type of Celtic culture highlighted during the festival you can discover: Highlight games, Irish fest, Irish dance competitions, Breton fest noz, and celtic language learning. List of Celtic festivalsHere is a complete list of Celtic festival in the USA that celebrate celtic heritage and culture: Alabama
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 Interview with Kevin Scannell Can technology help in preserving endangered languages? What resources should be focused on and how can language leaders come together to combine efforts? Breizh Amerika met with American academic, Kevin Scannell from the Saint Louis University in Missouri to learn about his work and insights. (view video) Prof Kevin Scannell works with linguists from around the world to help build an online presence of their native language. His work with Gmail, Twitter and WhatsApp helps provide Irish localisations for software products and he has developed an Irish spell checker, grammar checker and thesaurus, as well as dictionaries and translation engines that support Irish, Scottish and Manx Gaelic. He has also initiated a project called Indigenous Tweets that encourages users to use their native language on social media every day. It tracks more than 150 different languages on Twitter—the number of users, the number of tweets, the top tweeter and the first tweeter. Prof Scannell's newest endeavor is to help develop an Irish-language Siri or Alexa style virtual assistant. He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship by the US government and will spend the first half of 2020 in the Connemara Gaeltacht to work with researchers from NUI Galway’s Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge to research and develop computer resources. |
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