A Celtic Christmas has been a popular Atlanta tradition for almost two decades. A rare union of the secular with the spiritual and featuring many of the region’s most revered traditional instrumentalists, singers and dancers as well as highly acclaimed artists from around the world, the production has become a yearly heart-warming tradition for young and old alike!
The cast of the nineteenth Celtic Christmas heartily welcomes several guest performers: Singer Mary Jane Lamond hails from Nova Scotia and is considered a leading exponent for Scottish Gaelic song there. Cape Breton Island fiddler Wendy MacIsaac represents a long line of fiddlers with a refined yet earthy style that’s irresistibly danceable. And returning to our Celtic Christmas celebration this year will be the irrepressible mirth maker & musician Joe Craven. A native of Atlanta, Joe has been making his holiday pilgrimage from California to Celtic Christmas since 2005.
Truly a cross-cultural Celtic experience, Atlanta’s Celtic Christmas features fine Irish and Cape Breton Island fiddlers, Scottish Highland and Irish uilleann pipers, Celtic harp, seasonal songs in English and Gaelic, Scottish dancers and Irish step-dancers. Also featured is the offspring of the combination of Celtic, British Isles and African music – Old Time Appalachian string band music and Southern Sacred Harp singing. Regional performers include: The Buddy O’Reilly Band (John Maschinot, Lisa Edwards, Ray Campagnoli, Lauren McDonough, Evan Kinney); The Rosin Sisters (Barbarah Panter-Connah, Jan Smith, Ann Whitley); Whit Connah, Kelly Brzozowski, Henry Frantz, Fran Frantz, John Recknagle, Tim Cape, Leah Calvert, The Atlanta Irish Dance Troupe, The Glencoe School of Scottish Highland Dance, The Atlanta Junior Ceili Band and the long-awaited return of the wild and wonderful Gateway Performance Productions Mummers!
© 2011 A Celtic Company Production Photos Courtesy of the W. B. Yeats Foundation
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