Green Gates Ceili Band



Our next ceili is the St Brendan Ceili
on Friday, Feb 26, 8pm-12am
at Bergen Irish Assn. hall
41 Omaha St in Dumont NJ

The following ceili is the Pearl River Ceili
on Friday, Mar 19, 8pm-12am
at Clarkstown Reformed Church hall
Strawtown Rd in W Nyack NY

Down the road:

Mar 26, 2010 - St Brendan Ceili, Dumont NJ
April 9, 2010 - CCE North American Convention, Parsippany NJ

Don't forget: CCE MidAtlantic Hall of Fame Ceili
Feb 20, 7pm, Irish Center, Mineola NY

Welcome to the home page for the Green Gates Ceili Band. We are an Irish American ceili band based in Northern NJ. We play monthly (on 4th Friday) at the St. Brendan's Ceili, now in its 10th year, which is held at the Bergen Irish Association hall in Dumont NJ. We also play occasionally at the Pearl River Ceili, the Martin Mulvihill CCE Ceili, the Gaelic American Club Ceili in Fairfield CT, the Iselin Ceili Club in Rahway NJ, as well as annually at the Greater Danbury Irish Festival, the New Jersey Irish Festival and the Greater Hartford Irish Festival. We were also the featured ceili band on a cruise to Bermuda in 2004, and played the closing ceili for the CCE North American Convention that same year. We also played for the Friday ceili at the 2008 CCE Convention, where our drummer, Brendan Fahey, received a Founders Award.

Our current lineup is:
Eileen Goodman - Flute/Piano Accordion
Rose Flanagan - Fiddle
John Kennedy - Button Accordion
Denis O'Driscoll - Keyboard/Vocals
Brendan Fahey - Ceili Drums

Our original flute player, Pat Casey, is now retired. Some other musicians who regularly sit in with us when needed include Linda Hickman (flute), Margie Mulvihill Reynolds (flute), Dylan Foley (fiddle) and Don Meade (banjo).