Music

Irish Arts Center Winter Solstice Celebration

The beloved New York holiday tradition comes home to 51st Street

Details

$65 general / $52 members

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Date(s)

Wed, Dec 11 - Sun, Dec 15, 2019

Contact

Box Office
888-616-0274
boxoffice@irishartscenter.org

Phone hours:
10am-6pm, Monday-Friday

In person:
Opens 60 minutes before the performance on show days


Location

Irish Arts Center
553 West 51st Street
New York, NY 10019

Overview

Our 13th annual holiday gathering returns to its heart and hearth. Mick Moloney, Athena Tergis, and The Green Fields of America gather a host of special guests in our intimate 51st Street home for six spirited performances of reels, jigs, songs and stories in a musical celebration of Christmas and midwinter traditions from Ireland and around the world.  

FEATURING
The Green Fields of America
Mick Moloney, banjo, octave mandolin, and vocals
Athena Tergis, fiddle
Billy McComiskey, accordion
Liz Hanley, fiddle and vocals
Brendan Dolan, piano and flute
John Roberts, vocals and concertina
Niall O'Leary, dancer

With special guests
Tamar Korn, vocals
Dan Levinson, clarinet
Dennis Lichtman, tenor guitar, mandolin, and clarinet


WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11-13 | 8 PM
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14 | 2 PM & 8 PM
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15 | 3 PM

*SHOW ADDED*
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15 | 7 PM


December 12 is a members night! Enjoy a reception after the show (with a drink on the house) and meet and mingle with other IAC members. Bring friends—anyone who becomes a first-time member on a members night will receive a discount on signing.


Order your Irish Christmas CD now—a perfect gift for the holidays! Featuring 15 songs from Mick Moloney, Athena Tergis, and special guests recorded live from Irish Arts Center.


“A wide-angle, multicultural lens on the season with some startling effects.”
The Irish Times

“One of the best Irish contributions to a New York Christmas.”
Huffington Post


Presented with the support of Howard Gilman Foundation.

Irish Arts Center programming is supported by Culture Ireland – Promoting Irish Arts Worldwide.


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Our Supporters

Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Brandt Jackson Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; the Irish Institute of New York; the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater; the MacMillan Family Foundation; Bloomberg Philanthropies; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours; M&T Bank; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; the St. Patrick's Day Foundation, NYC; the Hyde and Watson Foundation; the Manhattan Tourism Foundation; and thousands of generous donors like you.

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