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Friends:

As always, your assistance in every way possible in helping promote this event
would be much appreciated. Thank you!

Eighth Annual Caprock Celtic Christmas Dec 20 7pm at The Legacy Performance
Center (14th & Ave. O)
On Sunday December 20, in the Talkington Great Hall at The Legacy Performance
Center (14th & Ave. O), the Vernacular Music Center, the College of Visual and
Performing Arts, the Caprock Celtic Association, and the Lubbock YWCA present
the 8th Annual Caprock Celtic Christmas. Singers, players, dancers,
storytellers, and more gather to perform traditional repertoires of the session,
including traditional Irish, Welsh, Breton, and English dance; Gaelic-, Welsh-,
and English-language traditional songs; instrumental dance tunes and slow airs,
and much more. The much-loved fear an tí (³man of the house²) Tom McGovern
returns as host. Special guests include Scots piper Tom Campbell, Irish tenor
Nat Cooper, bouzouki virtuoso Roger Landes, the Appalachian banjo/fiddle duo of
Mason Brown (Boulder CO) and Doug Goodhart (Kansas City MO), and the old-timey
country duo of Chipper Thompson & Kim Treiber-Thompson (Taos NM). Lubbockıs
trad-Irish band Johnny Faa play tunes and songs from their debut CD Last Nightıs
Fun; the Tech Set-Dancers provide the eightsome reels & jigs of the Clare
Caledonian Set, and the TTU Celtic Ensemble presents English rag-morris dances,
Anglo-Appalachian fiddle music, Celto-Balkan crossover tunes, the choral
repertoire of the Sacred Harp, and the Welsh mid-Winter hobbyhorse ritual called
Mari Lwyd. The event will be previewed on KOHMıs Celtic Shores program on Friday
Dec 18 at 9pm and Saturday Dec 19 at 11am, and will be simul-cast live over KOHM
(89.1fm; kohm.org) to listeners across the South Plains. Sunday nightıs
performance begins at 7pm.
The Celtic Christmas has quickly become a Lubbock favorite with adults and kids
alike and advance purchase is strongly advised. Tickets, which raise funds for
the Vernacular Music Center Scholarship at Texas Tech, are available at all
Select-A-Seat locations as well as at the door.
Information and media contact:
Dr Christopher J Smith (christopher.smith@...; 806-742-2270 x249)
Link to a map showing location of The Legacy in downtown Lubbock:
http://tinyurl.com/5mmbbx


Dr Christopher Smith, Associate
Professor<http://www.depts.ttu.edu/music/SOM/ChristopherSmith.asp> & Chair of
Musicology<http://www.depts.ttu.edu/music/SOM/facultyMusicHistoryLitt.asp>;
Director: Vernacular Music Center http://ttuvmc.org<http://ttuvmc.org/> & TTU
Celtic Ensemble http://ttucelticensemble.com<http://ttucelticensemble.com/>
Texas Tech School of Music MS2033 - Lubbock, TX 79409-42033
http://www.music.ttu.edu<http://www.music.ttu.edu/>
806/742-2270 x257; christopher.smith@...<mailto:christopher.smith@...>;
alternate: drchristopherjsmith@...<mailto:drchristopherjsmith@...>
public radio: "The Celtic Shores" http://kohm.org<http://kohm.org/>; commercial
site<http://coyotebanjo.com/>: http://coyotebanjo.com<http://coyotebanjo.com/>
CJS calendar availabilities<http://bit.ly/1TogK5>: http://bit.ly/1TogK5