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December 8, 2008
Celtic concert a holiday tradition

Grammy-winning banjoist Alison Brown, with members of the Alison Brown Quartet (above), will light up the “Sixteenth Annual Atlanta Celtic Christmas Concert,” hosted and directed by James W. Flannery, Winship Professor of Arts and Humanities and director of the W. B. Yeats Foundation.

The popular event highlights Celtic and Appalachian music, dance, poetry, song and story featuring Rising Appalachia and the Elders, The Buddy O’Reilly Band, Scottish pipers, Irish and Southern clog dancers, and more.

With performances on Dec. 12 and 13 at 8 p.m. and Dec. 14 at 2:30 p.m. in the Schwartz Center’s Emerson Hall, tickets are $25 for the general public; $20 for discount category members; and $10 for students. For tickets: 404-727-5050 or www.arts.emory.edu/tickets.