Pan Celtic Festival
| Pan Celtic Festival Féile Pan Cheilteach | |
|---|---|
| Logos of the Pan Celtic Festival | |
| Genre | Celtic culture and music festival |
| Location | Ireland |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Founders | Con O'Connaill |
| Website | www |
The Pan Celtic Festival (Irish: Féile Pan Cheilteach; Scottish Gaelic: Fèis Pan-Cheilteach; Manx: Feailley Pan-Cheltiagh; Welsh: Gŵyl Ban-Geltaidd; Breton: Gouel Hollgeltiek; Cornish: Gool Keskeltek) is a Celtic-language and culture festival held annually in Ireland, since its inauguration in 1971. Its main aim is to promote the modern Celtic languages and cultures and artists from the six Celtic nations: Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, Isle of Man, Scotland and Wales.
Each participating nation holds its own national selection event to choose its representatives for the Festival. The festival includes many competitions and events involving the arts, such as singing, dancing, choiring, songwriting, instrument playing, and film making. Often the most reported-on event of the Pan Celtic Festival is the International Song Contest, a competition for newly composed songs in the celtic languages, formerly called the Celtavision Song Contest in the seventies and eighties.