‘A Celtic Christmas’ is coming to Bothell Dec. 19

Published 3:26 pm Monday, November 15, 2010

Tomáseen Foley’s “A Celtic Christmas” will play the Northshore Performance Arts Center, 18125 92nd Ave. N.E., Bothell, at 7 p.m. Dec. 19.

The joy and innocence of the night before Christmas in a remote Irish parish is recreated — when neighbors gather around the fire on a long wintry night with joyous music, stories and dance. Long, long before “Riverdance,” ordinary Irish men and women in hobnailed boots knocked sparks off the flagstone floors with jigs, reels and hornpipes, and the rafters rang with the music of the fiddle, bodhran, tin whistle and uilleann pipes.

Tickets are adults $25; seniors $22; and youth under 17 $15.