Presenting Sponsor

 

Sponsors

The North Texas Irish Festival welcomes all sponsors, large and small to be a part of the event. We can offer you a wide range of options tailored to fit almost any marketing budget.

Please contact our Public Relations Director for additional details.

Southwest Celtic Music Association

The Southwest Celtic Music Association is the founding producer of the North Texas Irish Festival. The SCMA is a 501(c)3 not for profit corporation and is run entirely by Trustees elected by the membership.

The NTIF is our main activity of each year and generally produces the funds used to support other Irish and Celtic activities during each year. This coming October we will be producing a new Celtic festival in Ft. Worth called the Cowtown Celtic Festival giving us two major events each year. Membership is the key to SCMA’s future. Festival goers are encouraged to become Members of the SCMA and help promote our programs and events.

We have grown from a small crowd of a few hundred, gathering at a local Pub, to become one of the major Irish Festivals in the U.S. Our outstanding music lineup shows the drawing power of our Festival. In 2009 we drew approximately 65,000 people, many of whom came from towns and cities far distant from the Dallas area. Such is the draw and appeal of the NTIF.

The SCMA also has a generous Scholarship Programs that awards two individual grants to young music and dance students, as well as sponsoring educational programs such as the O'Flaherty Irish Music Retreat.

We encourage you to become a Member of the SCMA and help in our campaign to promote all kinds of Irish and Celtic music, dance, and culture. That is our mission statement! While you visit this year’s NTIF, come by the SCMA Membership Booth located in the Centennial Building and become a Member. We will be offering reduced membership rates to festival visitors as well as selling posters from past festivals.

When you enter the gates at the NTIF, look for a table with flyers about the SCMA and the upcoming Cowtown Festival. Head to the Centennial Building, and you will find us near the middle of the building at the end of the Hall of Flags and across from the Trinity Stage, Performer Products and General Store - all good places to visit while you are in that area.

What do you get for Membership?

• Get buy-one-get-one ticketing. Buy a ticket at the regular NTIF price and get a second ticket free. This is the most popular perk at NTIF. Attending two days will save you more than the cost of the Membership.
• Life Members get two free tickets to NTIF each day they attend.
• Reduced admission to many of the other SCMA-sponsored events throughout the year including our popular Concert Series in McKinney.
• Discount entry at the SCMA sponsored Ceili Dance session held each month at the ArtCentre of Plano located in downtown Plano.
• Every two months SCMA members receive our Ceili Newsletter that contains current calendar information about upcoming Celtic events, music, and dance, CD reviews and articles of general interest.

To find out more details about the total SCMA programs and events visit the SCMA web site at www.scmatx.org where you will also find a Membership application.

Upcoming Events

The SCMA has already booked two shows for our McKinney Concert Series for 2010. On June 19th we will be featuring Kevin Burke with Tom Creegan and Cary Novotny. Kevin is well known to NTIF fans and is a real crowd pleaser. On August 14 we will be bringing one of the biggest names in Irish music to our series, Mick Moloney and Green Fields of America. Mick has become a nationally recognized authority on Irish/Celtic music and has been featured in Festivals, recordings, and has done many sound tracks for movies and television.

The SCMA has started booking Headliners for our new Cowtown Celtic Festival in October.  We started the lineup with the most dynamic Scotsman in music today, and a great friend of many of in North Texas, Brian McNeil. Brian will be joined by one of two other international musicians, plus a selection of your favorite local musicians, dancers and storytellers.