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~*~Bill Gibbons at Galway Bay is planning his 8th annual Irish music festival!~*~

The venues will be Galway Bay Irish pub and the convention center in Ocean Shores, along with the 8th Street Ale house and the 7th Street Theatre in Hoquiam.

This is now the largest festival of its kind on the west coast with 23 bands coming from Washington, Oregon, California, British Columbia, and, of course, Ireland.

The festival will kick off with a concert at the 7th Street Theatre on Thursday October 20 featuring the Irish Sisters "Sephira", who are just coming off a PBS special with Michael Londra from Riverdance called "Beyond Celtic".  They have also toured exclusively with Celtic Thunder for the past few years.  Other notable bands are the "Wicked Tinkers" and Culann's Hounds" both out of California, and the "New Shilling" out of Portland featuring Peter Yeates from Dublin.

You will also be entertaineed by the Molly Malone Irish dancers out of Portland and the Tacoma Scots highland bagpipe band.

Great fun or "craic" as the Irish say can be had at the festival.