Irish Boston History & Heritage

A halfway to St. Patrick's Day celebration featuring top Irish entertainers gets underway the weekend of September 17-19, 2010 at the Blue Ocean Music Hall in Salisbury Beach. Fiddle champ Eileen Ivers and her band Immigrant Soul opens the festival on Friday, September 17, followed by Irish punk rockers Black 47 on Saturday, September 18, and Irish tenor John McDermott on Sunday, September 19.  You can purchase tickets to the shows online. The Boston Irish Tourism Association is raffling off a pair of free tickets to each show.  To enter the contest click here . Loated in the seaside town of Salisbury Beach on Boston's North Shore, the Blue Ocean Music Hall opened in November 2009 and already is one of the coolest concert venues in Massachusetts. For year-round information on Irish cultural events in Massachusetts and the New England region, visit IrishMassachusetts.com. For tourist information in Massachusetts, visit MassVacation.com .

Click here to book your trip to Ireland / Europe In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, take advantage of super airline deals from Boston to Shannon or Dublin for as low as $349 each way, plus other great European destinations this summer. And check out great holiday packages to Ireland, including airfare, motorcoach, meals and sightseeing included!  For more details visit Aer Lingus .