May 14 - 19, 2008
The Keltic Dreams Trip to Ireland

Last year, the Keltic Dreams hit Ireland by storm and performed for President McAleese in Dublin as well as on the Late Late show and various other venues including a large audience at St Stephen's green Shopping center. We were honored to have the producer of Riverdance , John McColgan, document our story together with Joanne McGrath in a documentary that was christened "A Bronx Dream" produced by Tyrone productions, which has aired in Ireland number of times on RTE including its debut on St Patrick's Day. This will be the first time The Keltic Dreams have travelled to Ireland since the documentary has aired in Ireland. The documentary has created a huge interest from the Irish audience as the 36 children, ages 7 - 13, who make up The Keltic Dreams are from a Public School in the Bronx and are all of African American and Latino background. Raising a total of $85,000 through donations from people all over the USA in 5 months, the will fly to Ireland May 14 - May 19. For most it will be their first time on a plane . We want to show the world that anything is possible if you really believe in the dream. Never ever give up, you can make anything happen!!!!

This year we plan to build the first triangle connecting New York to Belfast and the South of Ireland creating as what was once described to me by Joey Commerford as our very own Trinity triangle. Connecting the United States to the North and South of Ireland. Building a bridge between the three.

Thursday - , May 14, 2008
Performance in Storemont for Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness in The Great Hall, Belfast at the Ministers, Function. The reception begins at 4PM and continues until 6:00PM. They are building us a wooden floor, 24 feet x 16 feet. Last year we performed for President McAleese. It is a great honor to be invited to Belfast in the North of Ireland to perform now for the Ministers!!

Friday, May 16, 2008 !!! (Press and media coverage welcome)
- Performance in Hazelwood Integrated school, Belfast, 9:00AM
This year The Keltic Dreams plan to do this for the very first time as it has never been done before to this extent. They plan to perform for and reach out to children from an Integrated school in Belfast, Hazelwood school. This will be a very powerful show as the children from Hazelwood school will then perform for us. This show will give a powerful message to its audience demonstrating children from different worlds reaching out to each other regardless of cultural differences, religion, or race and shows the power of Irish culture and it's ability to connect children from different worlds. A very positive example of diversity at its finest will be seen in this show!! The Keltic Dreams will then mix in to the classrooms with of these Northern Ireland children for the morning!!!

Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 11:00AM (Press and media coverage welcome)
On Saturday, the chosen venue is the highest pub in Ireland Johnny Foxes!!
Here , The Keltic Dreams will mix with a traditional Irish dance school from the South of Ireland, The Kevin Warren School of Irish dance. Each group of children will perform 4 dances for each other. Then both groups have been working on their own group dance to the same music. They will debut this performance in Johnny Foxes fusing our version of Irish dance with the more traditional setting. Then Joey Commerford from Riverdance will put on The Johnny Foxes Show for all the kids from both schools. Both schools will mingle together over lunch courtesy of Johnny Foxes and then all travel to Glendalough together for a fun day out!!

Sunday, May 18, (Press and media coverage welcome)
As seen in the documentary, "A Bronx Dream", The Keltic Dreams will host their own show at St Stephen's green Shopping Center at 1:00PM, welcoming a huge audience of both adults and children all inspired by our story!!!!