Raw States
Southern Illinois Irish Festival
Carbondale, IL · Festival
- When
- April 24–25, 2027
- Where
- Evergreen Park · Carbondale · IL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A free community festival celebrating Irish music and Celtic culture with live performances, dance, specialty food and drink, cultural workshops and family activities. Held at Evergreen Park in Carbondale, it features regional and local performers and draws over 1,500 people. The festival aims to unite the community through shared heritage.
The history within reach
The April 2024 totality crossed the 2017 path near Carbondale, giving one small Illinois city two total eclipses in seven years, a coincidence it built festivals, T-shirts and a tourism strategy around.
- Pomona Natural Bridge7.1 mi
A sandstone arch about ninety feet across in the Shawnee National Forest, cut by a creek that found a weakness and went through the rock rather than around it.
- It do go down9.9 mi
Two men fishing from a small aluminium boat drifted toward the dam at Lake Murphysboro in 2015, and one of them worked out what was about to happen before the other did.
A cross a hundred and eleven feet tall on the highest ground in southern Illinois, visible for miles at night and paid for in part by farm families donating the money from selling chickens.
Illinois ran one basketball tournament for every school in the state regardless of size, and in 1964 a town of about a thousand people in the orchard country reached the final and lost by nine.