Fifteenth Annual Caprock Celtic Christmas: Home to Bassanda for the Holidays
Come join the Vernacular Music Center, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the Caprock Celtic Association, and the Roots Music Institute for the Fifteenth Annual Caprock Celtic Christmas on Saturday, December 12 at 7:00 pm in the Maedgen Theater on the TTU Campus. This year's theme is "Bassanda for the Holidays." Singers, dancers, storytellers, and more gather to perform traditional repertoires of the season.
Special guests include Alabama Rick Cunningham, Professor Roger Lands, Dr. Angela Mariani and surprise guests, direct from Bassanda and Ireland. The Tech Irish Set-Dancers and the Caprock Ceili Band provide Irish social dances, the TTU early Music Ensemble shape-note hymns from 18th Century New England, Caprock Morris and the Brothers Grimm dance teams the wild capers of the Border Morris and the Elegant Savages Orchestra presents traditional Breton, French, English, and Irish songs and tunes, as well as season favorites from the "lost world of Bassanda."
A returning special feature this year: the sonorous voices and evocative language of poets and readers William Gelber and Kathleen Blackburn, with selections from Celtic and Bassandan holiday texts.
The Celtic Christmas has 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 in advance at the Maedgen Theater box office. General admission is $10.50, seniors $4.50 and Students (with valid ID) admitted FREE!
Special Discount for black-purchase of 8 tickets or more! Tickets are available through Select-a-Seat: 770-2000 or at www.selectaseat.com
This event is not to be missed!
