The Oregon Celtic Festival is one of the West’s premier Celtic events, brimming with exhilarating Celtic culture, music, dance, crafts, great food and spirit to burn! And all in a beautiful park setting. This’ll be a real adventure for us and we hope to see plenty of you there, too. Playing four sets over two...
This is one of Medford's local acoustic music focal points, hosting weekly Irish music sessions, along with folk, bluegrass, singer-songwriter shows and more. Great little place for a pint and sweet local color.
We’ll ratchet up the energy a notch with our first Freight show featuring our new 7-piece lineup, adding fiddler & singer Valerie Rose to the joyful mix. Of course there will be a dancing skeleton. Of course you'll hear brand new songs, songs we haven't performed in a LONG time, and songs you won’t let us get...
The Rancho is the quintessential West Marin music hall, with great food and ambience. We’ve loved the place for years and expect a dancing crowd. Come early and snag a table!
Let Paddy's Return, a trad Irish band featuring 4 members of Wake the Dead, get you in the St. Patrick's Day spirit! Norm's Place is a hometown gathering spot filled with memorabilia from years of racing and hot rodding. Better still, there's no door charge, so get there early and snag your seats!
Our triumphant return to the Santa Cruz area, among our favorite haunts in the world, after a way-too-long COVID hiatus. New band lineup and plenty of new songs for our beloved fans. Wear your dancing shoes!
A full day of participatory musical fun with Wake the Dead hitting the stage in the evening for a concert/dance set. We'll be co-starring with the amazing Balkan band Fanfare Zambaletta and the day will be filled with sessions, workshops, song circles, dance classes and more... a sweet taste of the legendary Mendocino Lark Camp...
This is a special al fresco WTD show up in the lovely hills above Redwood City at the (mostly) private Emerald Lake Country Club. Open to all, the show will overlook the lake — do visit the Club's website for photos of the setting. It's pretty awesome. Bringing lawn chairs isn't a bad idea, though...
The Occidental Center is a gorgeous outdoor amphitheatre in the rolling countryside just north of Sebastopol. This is a sweet, sleepy little town that's too often overlooked, but home to culture and a couple of fine restaurants. We'll be playing an afternoon concert with plenty of room for lounging and or dancing, as you prefer....
The festival runs all weekend, Friday through Sunday, with many fabulous acts on multiple stages in one of the coolest settings ever for a music festival! Wake the Dead plays Friday in the late afternoon. Other acts include Los Lobos, The Wailin' Jennys, Old Blind Dogs, Miko Marks, Rainbow Girls, Crys Matthews, and tons more!
St. Columba's Episcopal Church is a lovely, out-of-the-way venue in West Marin, and WTD will be playing there for the first time this summer. We'll be in the outdoor amphitheatre in the beautiful late afternoon. Refreshments will be available for sale. Note: admission is cash only (shades of the 20th century).