A Celtic Christmas
Ishna: featuring Ciaran Nagle & Tara Novak
Saturday, December 16, 2023 | doors: 6pm - showtime 7pm
Seated front orchestra / Seated rear orchestra / seated balcony
ISHNA comes to Peterborough for a special Celtic Christmas Performance featuring Peterborough’s own tenor Ciaran Nagle and violinist/vocalist Tara Novak and Irish Step Dancers, all accompanied by whistle, uilleann pipes, guitar, accordion, & bodhran!
A CELTIC CHRISTMAS. Spirited Irish Ballads, Christmas Carols, Fiddle, Step Dancing and Story featuring former members of Riverdance and Three Irish Tenors.
The high-stepping spirited musical selections will have audiences clapping along to lively renditions of ancient Irish Carols, contemporary Christmas standards, spontaneous humor and thrilling Irish dancing. Audiences are sure to have a most memorable Christmas experience.
Ishna's lineup features founder Tara Novak - Fiddle, Ciaran Nagle - vocals, Dan Meyers - uilleann pipes/whistles, Bjorn Wennas - guitar, Mike Rivard - bass, Brian O'Neill - drums/perc, David McGrory - Keys, plus always crowd pleasing Irish step dancers.
Celtic Christmas w/ Ishna isn’t just a concert; it is a celebration of the holiday spirit, people, community and common connections. It’s about bringing young and old together to celebrate this special time of year. You can't listen to Celtic flavored music and not be happy.
Meet the Dancers
Maureen Doyle
Maureen Doyle shares in a family tradition of Irish step dance as a duo performer with her brother Kevin Doyle, a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellow. Maureen learned her jigs and reels from their County Roscommon-born mother Margaret Taylor Doyle, and she danced at community events and competitions typical of the Irish American experience in the 1950s and 1960s. Maureen is a performer with Roscommon Soles an ensemble that was created for the Library of Congress in 2014 and the Irish Embassy in Washington D.C.
Kevin Doyle
With six dancing decades under his feet, Kevin Doyle is a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellow, the highest honor awarded to a traditional artist in the U.S. Irish jigs and reels learned in childhood from his County Roscommon mother, along with American tap dance, showcase his magical repertoire of historic national styles. Kevin’s hornpipe, jigs, and reels have taken his performances from the West of Ireland to stages in the American West. He has danced, choreographed, and presented at Ireland’s Willie Clancy Week and stepped to the tunes of the historic Marine Band for St. Patrick’s Day as a guest of the Obama White House!
