Come experience a night of community, laughter, and joy with Tomáseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas.
For decades, the acclaimed show — new each year — has criss-crossed the country bringing holiday joy to audiences; this December, it returns to Santa Cruz with its Irish musicians, dancers, and native Irish storyteller, Tomáseen Foley. A Celtic Christmas springs from the infinitely rich treasury of Ireland’s cultural heritage: a re-creation of a night before Christmas in the West of Ireland in the 1940s, before the advent of the motorcar, the television, and the telephone.
In this family-friendly recreation of age-old tradition, neighbors bring their fiddles, tin whistles, flutes, bodhráns, uilleann pipes, and most importantly their unshakeable sense of community for a night of traditional music, song, dance, and of course storytelling. The show’s Music Director is Grammy Award-winning guitarist and Santa Cruz resident William Coulter, an internationally recognized master of the steel-string guitar.
This year the tour welcomes back Natalie Wagner, this time as lead dancer. This show is sponsored by the Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay.