Sunday, December 2
Celtic Celebration
Tomáseen Foley's
A Celtic Christmas
LAXSON AUDITORIUM | 7:30 p.m.$25 Premium | $20 Adult
$18 Senior | $16 Student/Child
"A spellbinding Storyteller." — R. Miller, Ashland Daily Tidings
Come enjoy the night before Christmas in an Irish farmhouse, where neighbors have gathered to celebrate with the laughter of their stories, the joy of their music, and the exuberance of their traditional dances. A Celtic Christmas is a remembrance of a way of life that is no longer with us, where ordinary Irish men and women celebrated the holidays with jigs, reels and hornpipes, the rafters rang with the traditional music of the fiddle, bodhran, tin whistle, and uilleann pipes, and stories were told around the roaring fire.
It was in such places and on such nights that the delightful treasury of Irish culture was created, expanded and preserved, and not by the bourgeois, as was the case throughout much of Europe at the time, but by the ordinary people in remote areas. By recreating just such a night on stage, Tomáseen Foley's A Celtic Christmas brings the tradition to American audiences.
And who better to do so? Storyteller Tomáseen Foley was born and raised in a big family on a small farm in the remote parish of Teampall an Ghleannáin in the West of Ireland in the 1940s, and this is where his story is set.
Foley brings with him some of the finest artists in the traditional Celtic arts performing today — and they come from both sides of the Atlantic.
Every Christmas, for the past eleven years, from California to Florida and from Maine to Texas, Tomáseen Foley's A Celtic Christmas has crisscrossed the country, bringing this holiday celebration to packed concert halls.
If you enjoy this performance, you might enjoy:
Celtic Fiddle Festival
Leahy
Miss Nelson is Missing
Peking Acrobats
Shidara
Seussical, Jr.
Cinderella