Dunedin Celtic Music and Craft Beer Festival

This year we are very excited to put on the best Celtic Music Festival ever! We are back at Highlander Park. We encourage our loyal supporters and new friends to come out and experience what true Celtic fun looks like.

What a line-up we have this year:

***Based in the Eastern US, Celtic duo Jesse and Kevin are an unprecedented combination of world-class talent in Scottish and Irish traditional music. Jesse Ofgang's expertise and years of intense training on the great highland pipes, border pipes and uilleann pipes are the perfect Kevin Elam's enchanting ballads and inventive accompaniment on the guitar, bouzouki and harmonium. ***Mec Lir, well-known for their tight, lightning-fast playing and huge sound, fusing Celtic trad with unapologetically electro synths and drums – yet all the while with the fiddle melody at the forefront – the Isle of Man/Glasgow band have brought their infectiously joyous energy to stages in many corners of the folk sphere.

***The Devils Brigade. Drawing favourable comparisons to Wolfstone, Afro Celt Sound System, and Trans-Siberian Orchestra and consistently providing performances from Grade 1 bagpipers and other world class musicians this high-energy Canadian/American group has electrified audiences on three continents for years.

***Plus of course our own local bands and Pipe Bands and wonderful Isle of Sky Dancers.

This is promising to be one of the best Celtic Festivals ever!!

The Dunedin Scottish Arts Foundation is a non-profit organization that raises money to support the Scottish Arts programs in Dunedin. These include Highland Dancing, Middle School and High School Pipe Band programs, and of course the City of Dunedin Pipe Band.

Supporting our education programs is more important than ever and your donations will go a long way. There has been a lot of challenges in the past couple of years, but our support of the Celtic Arts is unwavering.

At the same time, if you may be in a position to help beyond your ticket price, please consider making a donation to the Dunedin Scottish Arts Foundation. We are a non-profit organization where every penny we make goes back into the Scottish Arts community in our area.

We hope to see many of you at our Celtic Festival Music Festival, on Saturday, November 22, 2025 and at our Highland Games on April 11th 2026 next year. Thank you for your continued friendship and support.

Earlybird tickets $15

Children 12 and under free. Proof of age required.

Our Bands!

Jesse & Kevin

Mec Lir

The Devils Brigade