Celtic music, Indian dance, Oktoberfest band: Multicultural Folk Festival coming to Quincy

Mary Whitfill, The Patriot Ledger
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QUINCY – Celtic music, a polka band, Latin dancers and more will take over Quincy Center next month for the two-day Multicultural Folk Festival aimed at "celebrating a wide variety of cultural music and dance," the city said this week.

The afternoon and evenings of Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 6 and 7, will be a display of talents across languages and cultures. Acclaimed Irish tenor Ronan Tynan will open the festival with a performance at 6 p.m. Saturday outside city call. Tynan has sung at events including the funeral of President Ronald Reagan.

The festival will continue Sunday will five full hours of performances starting with the Mari Black Trio, which  will play Celtic music, at 3 p.m.  At 3:45, the Classical Indian Bharatanatyam Dance  and Jhankar Dance Group will  present an Indian folk dance, and at 4:05 p.m. dancers from the Boston Chinese Dance Inc. will perform.

The Mari Black Trio will play Celtic music in Quincy on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022.
The Mari Black Trio will play Celtic music in Quincy on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022.

Ezekiel’s Wheels Klezmer Band will perform at 4:50 p.m., the Eastern Sound Polka Band will take the stage at 5:30 p.m. and folk and Americana music from Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards will follow  at 6:15p.m.

At 6:45 p.m., the Oom-Pah-Pah Oktoberfest Band will perform, and the evening will wrap up with a 7:30 p.m. show by the Gogofski Balkan Ensemble.

“The weekend will celebrate a wide variety of cultural music and dance,” Mayor Thomas Koch said in a statement. “It’s wonderful to see so many people enjoying the monthly concerts on the Hancock-Adams Common with family and friends.”

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Attendees are encouraged to bring chairs, limited cabaret tables and chairs will be provided. Food  will be available  to buy at food trucks on site or from restaurants nearby.

For more information, visit discoverquincy.com.

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Reach Mary Whitfill at mwhitfill@patriotledger.com. 

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