Tomáseen Foley's "A Celtic Christmas" - SOLD OUT

December 4, 2009
8:00 pm

From the infinitely rich treasury of Ireland's cultural heritage, Tomáseen Foley's "A Celtic Christmas"—now in its eleventh year of touring coast-to-coast—lovingly recreates the joy and innocence of a night before Christmas in a farmhouse in the remote parish of Teampall an Ghleanntain in the west of Ireland, when neighbors gather around the fire to grace the long wintry night with the laughter of their stories, the joy of their music, and dances they always said they were much too old for. Long before Riverdance, ordinary Irish men and women in hobnailed boots knocked sparks off the flagstone floors with jigs, reels and hornpipes, and the rafters rang with the fiery music of the fiddle, bodhran, tin whistle, and the mesmerizing uilleann pipes. Tomáseen Foley's "A Celtic Christmas" features Grammy-award winning guitarist William Coulter, traditional sean-nos singer and harpist Sile Denvir from Connemara Gaeltacht in the west of Ireland, world-champion level Irish dancer Katie Linnane on Irish fiddle, and world-champion level Irish dancer Brian Bigley on uilleann pipes, whistles, and flute.

$28 (members and children $25). Call 413 458 0524 for tickets or purchase online at clarkart.edu.

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