North Texas Irish Festival

It’s almost time to kick up your heels and dance a jig: The North Texas Irish Festival brings Celtic culture to Dallas’s Fair Park for 2025. This family-friendly festival is a beloved annual event celebrating the best in music, dance, food and spirits, storytelling, art and more originating in the Emerald Isle and alive and well today in North Texas.

The largest cultural celebration in DFW, the North Texas Irish Festival is produced by the Southwest Celtic Music Association and is staffed by hundreds of volunteers, some of whom have volunteered for decades, often alongside generations of their families. This year’s festival theme,

Bring your family, friends – even the family dog! – to Fair Park in Dallas to enjoy 10 stages of live music, Irish step dancing, chef demonstrations and more, indoors and outdoors. Guests will also enjoy beer and whiskey tastings (for 21+), shopping, horse shows, sheepherding demonstrations, animal rescue groups, a fun run, child-friendly entertainment, and free arts and crafts for the kids. This indoor-outdoor festival takes place rain or shine.

2025 Hours
Friday, February 28, 6–11pm
Saturday, March 1, 10:30am–11:30pm
Sunday, March 2, 11:30am–7:30pm

Kids
Urchin Street at the North Texas Irish Festival is a special place where kids can find child-friendly entertainment, education, play and fun, including crafts, music, dance, storytelling (see the story schedule here). Storytellers -- or “Shanachie” – will tell traditional Irish stories in the way that the Irish learned of their history for hundreds of years.

Sheep Dogs:
In the Caora Sheep Dog Arena, see live demonstrations by the Circle C Border Collies on Saturday at 12:45pm and 3:30pm and on Sunday at 12:30pm and 3pm. And stick around for the Gaelic Sports.

Admission
Single-Day Tickets: Adults are $15 on Friday and $25 on Saturday and Sunday. $10 child ages 6–11 on any single day.
-Children 5 and under are free when accompanied by adult family member.
-Seniors 65+ receive $5 off (gate sales only) and SCMA Members receive 2 for 1 admission (gate sales only).
-Current military (with valid military ID) receive $5 off (gate sales only).
-Dogs are allowed in on a short leash with a $1 requested donation to animal rescue groups supported by the festival.

2-Day Weekend tickets: $40 adults; $15 children.
3-Day Weekend tickets: $45 adults; $20 children.

Parking
Parking at Fair Park is ample, and fairly close to the festival grounds. There will be a shuttle service to transport guests between the remote ends of the parking lot and the gate. Since this service is limited we do request that the young and the fit walk the short distance and leave space on the shuttle for others. There is a small fee for parking, which is regulated by Fair Park and the concession owners. The NTIF has no control over and receives no income from this fee. There are handicap spaces - ask the parking staff for directions. Prepaid daily parking links can be found on the Ticket Info page.

Find more family fun events every day of the week at dfwchild.com/calendar.