A packed house was on hand Friday August 8 at the Canadian American club for the Boston Comhaltas fundraiser to help defray some of the costs for Boston's participants the Fleadh Cheoil Na hEireann being held in later in August at Tullamore, Co. Offaly.
The Boston Comhaltas Music school Ceili band joined with the Boston Comhaltas band in providing exhilarating music throughout the night.
There are three Boston area participants, Caroline, Catherine and Roger who will represent Boston. There were large donations of food and raffle prizes resulting in over $1000 raised for the young musicians.
Caroline and Catherine each performed their specialty, Caroline on the tin whistle and Catherine with a Sean Nos song. They also combined their efforts in duet, where Catherine played the fiddle.
The dance floor was completely full all evening, with a mixture of Set Dances, Ceili Dances and Old Time Waltzes.
Larry, as usual, did a fabulous job as Emcee for the evening.
The proud parents were very appreciative for the amount of effort it took to make this a fantastic success both monetarily and socially.
2 comments:
Great video, Frank!
Hi Frank
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The SeventyMillion Project is a social project to find, map and explore Irishness and Irish heritage worldwide. There are 70 million people around the world with Irish heritage or an Irish link and we are trying to find where they are and also out what that link means to them.
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The SeventyMillion Project
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