Lehigh Valley Celtic Music is entirely owned and operated by Megan Everett and Terry Hartzell. We do not accept payment from any musician, venue, or business for what we do under the umbrella of Lehigh Valley Celtic Music.

This website was born on Christmas Day 2008, in a fit of frustration, after reading in the newspaper about yet another Celtic music performance we would have loved to have attended, if only we had known about it PRIOR to the performance!

In spite of both of our attempts to pro-actively seek out live performances in our area, far too often events or important details were never even posted on either the band's or the venue's websites or Facebook pages.

The final straw was when some "regular" offerings we loved were canceled because the venues weren't getting the turnout they needed in order to continue hosting events.

We asked ourselves what we could do to help save the live music we love — how could we connect the people who love live music with performances? — And this website was born!

We want this website to be a resource for all those who love the music:

We hope it will help audiences find the wonderful music happening here in the culturally rich area between Philadelphia and New York City — both of which have their own very rich Irish/Scottish music scenes and their own web-directories.

We hope this website, our e-mail lists, and our Facebook page, will help people and organizations discover local musicians to hire for their events.

We hope it will help musicians find one another — We all know what it's like to misplace someone's business card the week before we really need it.

The online calendar on our website's homepage contains events within a 2-hour drive of center-city Bethlehem, as roughly the center of the Lehigh Valley.

We make a special effort to post events that will include our local musicians — which is why one Philadelphia-area event might be posted and not another.

We welcome leads to performers, events, venues, and organizations that we haven't discovered yet.

Our personal passion is for those who are keeping the musical traditions and spirit alive of those cultures we here in the Valley label "Celtic".

What you will find here are true "Celtic" folk musicians, as well as artists who are following their muse to weave together elements of the beauty from many heritages, but who have an identifiably "Celtic" flavor.

What you will not find here are Celtic rock bands or grunge bands wearing kilts. Nothing against rock, urban, punk or grunge. They just interest a different audience.

We will not knowingly post a performance to which you would feel uncomfortable taking your child, your mother, your mother's priest or pastor, or a first date. On the VERY rare occasions we do, we will mark them "for adult audiences", meaning we have reason to believe that some people might be offended by some of the lyrics or banter.

This website is for you. If you have additions for the calendar or suggestions on how anything we do can be more useful, we welcome your feedback at info(at)lehighvalleyceltic.com

Thank you for visiting!

Megan Everett and Terry Hartzell