Westchester Community College is presenting an Irish holiday spectacular, Tomaseen Foley's A Celtic Christmas.
Long before Riverdance, ordinary Irish men and women in hobnailed boots knocked sparks off flagstone floors with jigs and reels as rafters rang with the fiery music of the fiddle, bodhran, tin whistle, and mesmerizing uilleann pipes. This was the backdrop for the oral tradition of storytelling as an expression of life's journeys and a broad spectrum of human emotion.
A Celtic Christmas recreates the joy and innocence of a nigjt before Christmas in a farmhouse in the remote parishes of Teampall and Ghleanntain in the west of Ireland. It was a time when neighbors gathered around the fire to grace long wintry nights with the laughter of their stories, the joy of their music, and dances they always said they were much too old for.
