FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre presents
A Celtic Family Christmas
with Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy
MON 16 DEC AT 7:30PM
TUE 17 DEC AT 7:30PM
A Celtic Family Christmas
with Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy
MON 16 DEC AT 7:30PM
TUE 17 DEC AT 7:30PM
PARTRIDGE HALL
Welcome to A Celtic Family Christmas with Natalie MacMaster, Donnell Leahy and their seven children!
Join the family and stellar band as they warmly invite you in to share their music, their unique way of life and Christmas traditions still honoured and celebrated.
This show will feature some traditional and original music with the family and also special numbers with their own incredible band, as well as a few personal stories and candid moments from the MacMaster/Leahy setting. Life is never dull, especially at Christmas!
Hearing Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy speak reverentially about the fiddle, which has propelled their dazzling careers since childhood while cementing their status as Canada’s reigning couple of Celtic music, is almost as electrifying as hearing them play it.
Indeed, when MacMaster and Leahy married in 2002 — both were already stars in their own right — they could not have predicted their merger would recast what contemporary musical success looks like. Or that they would produce a large family and ensure their mantelpiece was jammed with JUNO and East Coast Music Awards while creating an inventory of achievements spanning the globe.
They certainly couldn’t have imagined capping off what they jokingly refer to as their combined 83 years as performers with milestones including another hotly anticipated Christmas tour, an accompanying TV special, a pending third instalment of their Greenbridge Celtic Folk Fest, a recent Road Gold Award from the Canadian Independent Music Association, and last but certainly not least, the arrival of Maria, newest sib to Mary Frances, Michael, Clare, Julia, Alec and Sadie.
Regular $69
Member $59
All tickets are subject to HST.
Sponsored by Critelli’s Fine Furniture .
Join the family and stellar band as they warmly invite you in to share their music, their unique way of life and Christmas traditions still honoured and celebrated.
This show will feature some traditional and original music with the family and also special numbers with their own incredible band, as well as a few personal stories and candid moments from the MacMaster/Leahy setting. Life is never dull, especially at Christmas!
Hearing Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy speak reverentially about the fiddle, which has propelled their dazzling careers since childhood while cementing their status as Canada’s reigning couple of Celtic music, is almost as electrifying as hearing them play it.
Indeed, when MacMaster and Leahy married in 2002 — both were already stars in their own right — they could not have predicted their merger would recast what contemporary musical success looks like. Or that they would produce a large family and ensure their mantelpiece was jammed with JUNO and East Coast Music Awards while creating an inventory of achievements spanning the globe.
They certainly couldn’t have imagined capping off what they jokingly refer to as their combined 83 years as performers with milestones including another hotly anticipated Christmas tour, an accompanying TV special, a pending third instalment of their Greenbridge Celtic Folk Fest, a recent Road Gold Award from the Canadian Independent Music Association, and last but certainly not least, the arrival of Maria, newest sib to Mary Frances, Michael, Clare, Julia, Alec and Sadie.
Regular $69
Member $59
All tickets are subject to HST.
Sponsored by Critelli’s Fine Furniture .
