A Celtic community center for history, myth & folklore
Where History, Myth & Folklore Meet
Louisville’s first 501(c)(3) nonprofit Celtic Community Center, where rigorous scholarship and living folklore meet.
Two currents of one river
Hallows Folk Hall treats rigorous scholarship and living folklore as two currents of one river. One runs through the archives, the language classes, and the archaeology. The other runs through the songs, the seasonal rites, and the stories told at the hearth.
It is a hearth for the Celtic-hearted, the myth-lovers, the Nature-spirited, and anyone curious about folklore and heritage arts.
Welcome to Louisville’s first 501(c)(3) nonprofit Celtic Community Center for History, Myth & Folklore.
We are working to open the doors of a physical home: a third place with heart, offering cultural programs for lifelong learning and discovery, a welcoming and inclusive spiritual sanctuary, a soulfully curated gift shop, and joyful gatherings for celebration.
Rev. Erika Rivertree
Founder & Executive Director · Priestess and Spiritual Director
Hallows Folk Hall is led by Founder and Executive Director Rev. Erika Rivertree, an ordained Priestess of the Sacred Well Congregation, a Druid of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, and a Master of Divinity student in Pastoral Counseling and Chaplaincy at Cherry Hill Seminary. She holds a Bachelor of Science in General Studies, Culture & Community track, with a minor in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Louisville, and a Certificate of Community Ministry from Cherry Hill Seminary. She coordinated social media for the Scottish Society of Louisville, and has spent years teaching Celtic mythology and folklore, foodways, herbalism, and Nature-centered spirituality both locally and nationally. She was featured in an interview with Celtic Life International Magazine in February 2022. She is also a writer, musician, and tea master.
Credentials and work
Education & training
Practice & service
Publications & media
Who we work alongside
Irish Society of Kentuckiana
Invited Hallows to the WorldFest Celtic Homecoming Booth.
The Scottish Society of Louisville
A local partner. Erika coordinated their social media.
Bandree Botanicals
Our herbal hearth crafts line: candles, organic body care, teas and tisanes, tied to the Herbal Hearth Crafts workshop series.
Aisling Seed Group
Our OBOD seed group. It has its own mark, and it gets its own page here once the affiliation is formalized.
News from the Hall
THE HALLOWS HERALD
Our free quarterly newsletter. Programs, events, and news from the Hall, four times a year.
