Dear all, I am pleased to inform you that the annual Abbogts Magic Get Together will be held in the year 2023. This event has become a much-awaited gathering for all magic enthusiasts and performers, and we are excited to announce that it will be taking place from June 15th to June 18th. The Abbogts Magic Get Together is a unique opportunity for magicians from around the world to come together and share their talents and knowledge in a friendly and supportive environment. It serves as a platform for both experienced performers and aspiring magicians to learn from each other, exchange ideas, and build lifelong connections. The event will be held at the Abbogts Convention Center, a state-of-the-art venue located in the heart of the city. The Convention Center offers spacious halls, world-class facilities, and the latest technology to ensure a seamless experience for all attendees.
“People are drawn to ancient sites, stories and traditions,” says Weird Walk co-founder Hornsby. “Sacred landscapes and their lore offer respite, reconnection and an enjoyable yomp. There’s usually a decent pub nearby, too. Someone recently told me that in previous years their mates used to post about going to gigs or to football on the weekend, then all of a sudden it was hikes up mountains and rituals at standing stones … folklore and ancient history is gaining a foothold in the era of social media.”
Stone Club, founded by artists Lally MacBeth and Matthew Shaw in 2021, organises walks and gatherings for people fascinated by prehistoric pagan Britain. Irish fashion designer Simone Rocha s latest show featured models wearing tiered veils a reference to the tradition on the Aran Islands of wearing petticoats dyed red as headdresses to take part in funeral processions.
The Convention Center offers spacious halls, world-class facilities, and the latest technology to ensure a seamless experience for all attendees. The four-day program is packed with a wide range of activities and events that cater to different interests and skill levels. There will be workshops and seminars conducted by renowned magicians who will be sharing their expertise and teaching new techniques.
2023 Entertainers
Ally is a multi-instrumentalist out of New York. She specializes in celtic instrumentation, such as the Highland Bagpipe, Scottish Smallpipe, Irish whistles, and vocals. At age 16 Ally became a world champion performing on the Highland Bagpipe, and holds several domestic and international titles. Ally has a Bachelor’s Degree in music from Penn West, where she triple focused in Bagpipe, Vocal, and Piano performance. She performs professionally, and virtually through her various social media platforms where she has amassed over two million followers, making her the most followed bagpiper on the internet.
The Bow Tides
The Bow Tides is a powerhouse Celtic ensemble led by three Irish fiddlers: Ellery Klein, Jessie Burns and Katie Grennan. These dynamic women are veterans of the stage and studio, with a collective 15 years as the fiddlers with the Irish-American supergroup Gaelic Storm.
In summer of pandemic 2020, the world over was feeling lost and in much need of connection, inspiration and community. Jessie, Katie and Ellery, located in three different states, received an invitation to create an online performance for the Spanish Peaks International Celtic Festival. They decided this was the perfect opportunity to join their mighty creative forces. Grammy-nominated bassist Eric Thorin and guitarist Jeff Lindblade were enlisted to hold down the low end, and the ideas started flowing- and they haven’t stopped. Drawing from decades of playing traditional Irish fiddle, bonded by their love of composition and rich harmonic arrangements, and a deep creative, calling, the five set to work. The Bow Tides was born – an unexpected silver lining, and they haven’t looked back since.
After the success of their first all-online collaboration, they were invited by Pittsburgh Irish Festival to produce another performance. Garnering rave reviews, one year later they all met in person at last, hitting the main stage at the 2021 Pittsburgh Irish Festival with the debut of their unique collaboration of stunning original compositions, rich harmonies and driving traditional tunes, songs featuring the rich baritone of Jeff Lindblade and Katie Grennan’s Irish dance. Summer 2022 saw The Bow Tides inspiring audiences to standing ovations at festivals nationwide, evoking tears with their beautiful slow compositions, and raucous cheers and hollers for their high-energy reels and jigs.
Their debut recording, Sailing On, is packed full of gorgeous original compositions as well as a breadth of uniquely arranged traditional tunes from Ireland, Scotland and Galicia. The Bow Tides is a band that celebrates community and collaboration, delivering uplifting music that evokes joy, with a feel and sound unlike anything else out there.
The Brigideens
The Brigideens, a brand-new powerhouse, fiery female band came together as a group of talented musicians and singers from the Celtic and Americana traditions to perform in honor of St. Brigid, the beloved patron and mother saint of Ireland. The name Brigid means “fiery arrow” and this ensemble takes inspiration from her.
Led by Grammy awarded, Emmy-nominated, 9-time All-Ireland Fiddle Champion, Eileen Ivers, Eileen formed the group to showcase the mighty dimension of talent in today’s female artists. Native New Yorkers, Caitlin Maloney is featured on lead vocals, and Hilary Hawke on 5-string banjo, bass, clarinet, spoons and background vocals. Hilary was featured in the Tony award winning Broadway musical, “Oklahoma”. Anna Colliton, a Chicago native, is a master of the bodhran, the traditional Irish frame drum. Anna teaches nationwide and has performed with many top traditional music groups including Cherish the Ladies. Rounding out the ensemble from Maryland is guitarist and vocalist, Colin Forhan, who also plays tenor banjo and concertina. Colin performs double duty as a member of Eileen Ivers and Universal Roots.
Dennis Doyle
Dennis Doyle is a Celtic harpist who has been featured at the Pittsburgh Irish Fest for over twenty years. His delightful program of traditional Irish harp music, stories, songs, bits of history and jokes have been performed all over North America, Japan and Ireland. Teachers and musicians run in his family which originally hails from County Wicklow, Ireland.
Dennis has produced over ten recordings and has two published books on Celtic and liturgical music. The most recent recording is Swift River. In addition to playing on the show stages, he also helps organize and perform in the festival liturgy each year.
Though based in California, Dennis has deep personal roots in Fayette County, Pennsylvania where his grandfather William Doyle worked the mines around Uniontown. His own father, Mark Doyle, was born in Connellsville before the post-war family exodus to Los Angeles in 1949.
Eileen Ivers
Grammy awarded, Emmy nominated, London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, guest starred with over 50 orchestras, original Musical Star of Riverdance, Nine Time All-Ireland Fiddle Champion, Sting, Hall and Oates, The Chieftains, ‘Fiddlers 3’ with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Regina Carter, Patti Smith, Al Di Meola, Steve Gadd, founding member of Cherish the Ladies, movie soundtracks including “Gangs of New York”, performed for Presidents and Royalty worldwide…this is a short list of accomplishments, headliners, tours, and affiliations. Fiddler Eileen Ivers has established herself as the pre-eminent exponent of the Irish fiddle in the world today.
Enda Reilly
Enda Reilly learned his trade as a folk singer and songwriter from playing in the pubs of his hometown, Dublin, Ireland. Enda is an IMRO Christy Hennessy Songwriting Competition winner and co-wrote many songs with Aoife Scott including “All Along The Wild Atlantic Way”, which got to no.1 in Ireland and the title track from her current album “Homebird”. As a singer and guitarist Enda has his own albums including his “New Songs in Irish”, “Whorls” songs created from the poetry of WB Yeats, songs about the environment, and he has fresh arrangements of some of the classics. Enda has performed with many of Ireland’s foremost gaelic poets and shared the stage with John Spillane, Liam O Maonlaí, Kila, Sive, InniK, Aoife Scott, Shane Hennessey, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Altan), Séamus Begley, Tristan Rosenstock (Téada) among others. The Enda Reilly Live Stream has kept folks in Ireland, the US and beyond entertained on Saturdays for over a year now. More at www.endareilly.com
Gaelic Storm
It’s hard to imagine a band just coming into their own after 20 years of success, but that’s exactly what makes a true anomaly. This multi-national, Celtic juggernaut grows stronger with each live performance, and as you can imagine, after two decades and over 2000 shows, it is a true force to be reckoned with. With their latest release, Go Climb a Tree, their music has never sounded more representative of themselves as musicians and as live performers.
The band attributes their continued success to their fanatic audience, and it’s a well-diversified crowd for sure. The country-music folks adore the storytelling, the bluegrass-heads love the instrumentals, Celtic fans love their devotion to tradition, and the rockers simply relish the passion they play their instruments with. Each band member, in their own way, expresses a deep gratitude for their fans, but it’s best summed up in the words of Patrick Murphy: “The fans are the ones that have given us this life. We’re here for them.”
On Go Climb a Tree, co-founders of Gaelic Storm, Steve Twigger and Patrick Murphy, along with longtime friend and co-writer Steve Wehmever, are again at the helm of song-writing duties. The album has everything—party drinking songs (“The Beer Song”), patriotic anthems (“Green, White and Orange”), beautiful folk songs (“Monday Morning Girl”), spritely instrumentals “”The Night of Tomfoolery”), perfectly poppy songs (“Shine On”), and even a raucous pirate song (“Shanghai Kelly”). When speaking of the overall concept of the album, Patrick Murphy gives some insight: “With all the craziness and division in the world, we wanted to make an album about ‘contemplative escapism.’ Go Climb a Tree certainly isn’t about dropping out of the conversation, it’s just about taking a short hiatus to recharge the batteries before you take on the world again.”
Gaelic Storm takes a true blue-collar, hard-nose approach to touring, consistently traveling the US and internationally over 200 days a year, forging a unique path in the Celtic music world. “You have to see us live. We are the true working-mans’ band,” says Ryan Lacey, who joined the lineup in 2003. “We still, and most likely always will, tour most of the year, and that’s how we constantly hone our craft.”
The dedication to live shows date all the way back to the mid-1990s, when Gaelic Storm kicked off its career as a pub band in Santa Monica, California. Due to their discovery at the pub, by the end of the decade, the musicians had appeared in the blockbuster film Titanic (where they performed “Irish Party in Third Class”). This laid the groundwork for a career that would eventually find them topping the Billboard World Chart six times, making appearances at mainstream music festivals, and regularly headlining the largest Irish Festivals across the country, all the while gaining a reputation as a genre-bending Irish rock band, whose songs mix Celtic traditions with something uniquely creative.
Looking to the future, Gaelic Storm is excited about what lies ahead. In 2022, they were excited to welcome Natalya Kay, an incredible fiddler hailing from Western Massachusetts, but living now in Music City, Nashville, TN. Natalya’s energy and presence on stage has been a force to be reckoned with.
In summer of pandemic 2020, the world over was feeling lost and in much need of connection, inspiration and community. Jessie, Katie and Ellery, located in three different states, received an invitation to create an online performance for the Spanish Peaks International Celtic Festival. They decided this was the perfect opportunity to join their mighty creative forces. Grammy-nominated bassist Eric Thorin and guitarist Jeff Lindblade were enlisted to hold down the low end, and the ideas started flowing- and they haven’t stopped. Drawing from decades of playing traditional Irish fiddle, bonded by their love of composition and rich harmonic arrangements, and a deep creative, calling, the five set to work. The Bow Tides was born – an unexpected silver lining, and they haven’t looked back since.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in lectures on the history of magic, the psychology behind illusions, and the business side of being a magician. In addition to the educational sessions, there will be thrilling magic performances by internationally acclaimed magicians. These shows will showcase some of the most mind-boggling illusions and tricks that will leave everyone in awe. Furthermore, the event will feature a dealer's room where you can browse and purchase the latest magic props, books, and DVDs. This is a great opportunity to expand your magic collection and discover new resources. The Abbogts Magic Get Together is not only about learning and performing magic—it is also about building a sense of community and camaraderie among magicians. Throughout the event, there will be ample opportunities for networking and socializing with fellow enthusiasts. Whether you are a professional magician or just starting your journey in magic, this event will be an unforgettable experience for all. Ticket sales for the Abbogts Magic Get Together 2023 will open soon, and we encourage you to reserve your spot early as spaces are limited. We will be sharing regular updates on our website and social media pages, so make sure to stay tuned for more information. We look forward to welcoming you all to the Abbogts Magic Get Together 2023 and creating magical memories together. See you there! Best regards, [Your Name].
Reviews for "Inspirational Stories of Success at Abbogts Magic Geg Together 2023"
1. Emma - 2 stars
I was highly disappointed with "Abbogts Magic Get Together 2023". The event lacked organization and was chaotic from beginning to end. The schedule was poorly planned, with overlapping performances and inconsistent timing. The quality of magic acts was subpar, with many tricks being predictable and lackluster. The venue itself was uncomfortable and cramped, making it difficult to enjoy the show. Overall, this magic event failed to meet my expectations and I would not recommend it to others seeking a memorable magic experience.
2. John - 1 star
"Abbogts Magic Get Together 2023" was a complete disaster. The performances were unimpressive and lacked any originality. It seemed like all the magicians were recycling the same worn-out tricks. The stage lighting was dreadful, often leaving the audience unable to fully see what was happening. The sound system was equally terrible, with constant feedback and distorted music. I left feeling extremely unsatisfied and regretting the money I spent on tickets. Save your time and money and skip this event.
3. Sarah - 2 stars
As a fan of magic shows, I was excited to attend "Abbogts Magic Get Together 2023" but ended up feeling let down. The event appeared disorganized, with long delays between performances and little communication from the organizers. The overall production quality was poor, with outdated props and lackluster stage design. While a few magicians did showcase some impressive tricks, the majority of performances were forgettable. I would advise anyone considering attending this event to lower their expectations and be prepared for a disappointing evening.