A one minute sampling of what the show is like. Singing, spectacular instrumentals, dancing, kids, sing-alongs, stories, poetry, and humor!

Winifred Horan, Maeve Gilchrist, and Mariel Vandersteel play a beautiful air from Norway at A Christmas Celtic Sojourn. And then stay with it for a surprise Slip Jig from dancers of the Harney Academy of Irish Dance.

Brian O'Donovan recounts his memories of growing in Clonakilty, West Cork.

Arrival of the Queen of Sheba combines wonderfully with Ev'ry Valley from Handel who debuted his Messiah in Dublin in 1742. Genius blend of Brass and trad Irish instruments at A Christmas Celtic Sojourn.

Maureen McMullen and Moira Smiley harmonize on In the Bleak Midwinter at A Christmas Celtic Sojourn.

Maeve Gilchrist, Moira Smiley, and Maureen McMullen sing a beautiful of the Wexford Carol with new words by John Renbourn. Its followed by an Irish dance piece the has come to represent a key part of A Christmas Celtic Sojourn in New England.

Alyth McCormack and Navan lead the opening of A Christmas Celtic Sojourn at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston. Each year, music director Seamus Egan of Solas, creates a new "overture" which introduces the theme of Christmas and introduces the participants in the show. Watch to the end to see how this develops in surprising ways!

Each year, A Christmas Celtic Sojourn asks for a rendition of Oh Holy Night. This was from Alyth McCormack from Scotland and delivered with devotion and conviction. It was one of those moments that moved the audience in emotional ways not expected.

All Christmas gatherings are about fun and family. Here are the Pilatzke brothers and Cara Butler (married into the family!) bringing that sense of joy and exuberance to the show in 2012. Fun, fun, fun.... and how bad!

The exquisite fiddle playing of Win Horan, with Mick McAuley and other members of Solas. Add in Natalie Hass on cello and Shetlander, Chris Stout and you have the makings of a sound that is indeed unique. Win told us she wrote this tune after seeing a flower thriving alone and flowering thru the cracks of the harsh limestone escarpment of The Burren in Co. Clare. An emotional and inspiring piece indeed. Recorded at the Cutler Majestic Theater in Boston in 2012.

Solas gives a dynamic instrumental performance each year. This is among their best!! Wow!

One of the great overtures of Seamus Egan's assembling. These pieces that introduce the themes and flavor of the show to come are always adventurous and move in many different directions usually ending with spectacular dancing. Worth watching this through to the end.

The late and sadly missed Johnny Cunningham wrote a wonderful short poem called the Dark of Winter which introduced a group of young adult dancers from the Harney Academy of Irish Dance. Then Maureen McMullen, Moira Smiley, and Maeve Gilchrist give us a John Renbourn variant of the Wexford Carol. Three part harmony. How lovely!

Our beginning of the second half of A Christmas Celtic Sojourn is always of a type. Slow, reflective, sometimes wistful, often nostalgic. In this year we had Mariel Vandersteel who played hardanger fiddle from that particular region of Norway, and Win Horan who is of course, well Win Horan! This piece is by Norwegian Fiddle phenom Anbjorg Lien. This followed by a slip jig, a unique Irish dance always danced by women or girls. Here three amazing dancers from the Harney Academy of Irish dance make it their own.

Moira Smiley sings I am a Youth Inclined to Ramble from the Ulster tradition of Irish singing. We first heard Paul Brady's version of this many years ago, and asked Moira to bring it to Christmas Celtic. And of course, she delivered, as she does, a unique take, her own version. Well worth checking this out.

The classic song but a different version perhaps, than the one common in the US. Seamus Egan created this exquisite arrangement with Moria Smiley and Maureen McMullen sharing vocals.

Its our tradition to ask one of our main singers to give us their rendition of Oh Holy Night. Maureen McMullen is from Scotland. This is her reverent version. Oh my. With the full ensemble, and brass, it certainly has dramatic effect.

The wonderful song written by Sigerson Clifford about the town of Caherciveen in County Kerry, but more universally about the sense of home, and belonging. We included for those reasons in our Christmas Celtc Sojourn concert and with Moira Smiley's voice we know it was the right tone to set. History, nostalgia, sentimentality.