Concert Highlights for the Holidays

Full details at www.wgbh.org/celtic.

An Nollaig: An Irish Christmas is Eileen Ivers' Christmas tour throughout the East Coast and the Midwest (www.eileenivers.com) and features her Immigrant Soul Ensemble. The show is highlighted with appearances with

the Augusta, Georgia, Cleveland, Ohio and Huntsville, Alabama Symphony Orchestras as well. On December 13 she appears at the Boulton Center in Bay Shore, Long Island and the following night at the Berrie Center at Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey.

An Irish Christmas: A Musical Celebration with Mick Moloney and Special Guests takes place at the Irish Arts Center in New York on December 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14. Fiddler Athena Tergis, Niall O'Leary and the Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra join Moloney for all the shows as they welcome John Doyle on the first weekend and Billy McComiskey and Dan Milner for the second.

Details at www.irishartscenter.org. or at 212-757-3318.

A Celtic Christmas Tour with Cherish the Ladies from Maine to Georgia and out to Ohio and Illinois sees 10 shows on tap for one of the hardest working units in Irish music on the road now for 22 years under Joanie Madden's leadership.

There will be three opportunities to see this Yuletide treat in the New York area as two shows are scheduled for Sunday, December 7 at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in Connecticut at the very intimate Fairfield Theatre Company (www.fairfieldtheatere.com or 203-259-1036) in cooperation with the Shamrock Irish Traditional Music Society.

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