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A Celtic Christmas®

Celebrate the holidays with Celtic Ayres and Christmas carols amidst candlelight
and holly in Georgetown’s Historic Dumbarton Church

“Enjoyable for both children and adults.” – The Washington Post

Who:      The Barnes & Hampton Celtic Consort

Where:  Dumbarton Concerts in Georgetown’s Historic Dumbarton Church

When:    December 5 at 4pm and 8pm, December 6 at 4pm, December 12 at
               4pm and 8pm and December 13 at 4pm

How:      Tickets: $30, Seniors $26, Youths $15
               Call 202-965-2000, visit www.dumbartonconcerts.org
               email office@dumbartonconcerts.org for more information

 

WASHINGTON: One of Washington’s most beloved holiday traditions, a Celtic Christmas, with the Barnes & Hampton Celtic Consort returns for its 24th season in the candlelit beauty of Georgetown’s Historic Dumbarton Church.

This timeless music, a lovely weave of the sounds of the Celtic harp, lute, Irish pipes, bodhran, flutes and recorders, is perfect for the moods of the season: Christmas, the winter solstice or anytime the snow sparkles on a clear, cold night – all suggesting “a wintry evening spent nestled in a living-room chair with a hot beverage in hand.” (The Washington Post)

Linn Barnes – on lute, guitar and Irish bagpipes – and Allison Hampton on Celtic harp, are joined by Joseph Cunliffe, flutes, recorders, and Steven Bloom, percussion. Interwoven throughout the program will be seasonal readings by Sirius XM radio host, Robert Aubry Davis, including Dylan Thomas’s classic, A Child’s Christmas in Wales and King Arthur’s Wassail.
 
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