Céilí

Name: Céilí
Start: 2025-03-16T14:00:00-04:00
Location: Westboro Masonic Temple

Schedule

Sun, 16 Mar, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Westboro Masonic Temple | Ottawa, ON

Céilí, pronounced kay-lee, is a traditional Irish social gathering with live music, storytelling and dance. For this concert, there won’t be any dancing but there will be plenty of music. There’ll be spirited jigs, reels, songs and melancholy airs played on a variety of instruments from fiddles to flutes, from keyboards to banjo, guitar, bodhran, a button accordion and a Celtic harp.
Irish music might get started with someone who sets toes to tapping on the kitchen floor. Then a tune might spring up between the fingers and the memory, a memory that comes from long ago and far away… Celtic musicians rarely have ownership of the tunes they play, yet they are the keepers of musical legacy. Their music flows through the ages from bardic times, past multiple generations to the present day.
On Sunday, March 16, eight musicians will come together to bring you an afternoon of knee-slapping, toe-tapping Irish music. It’s a show you surely won’t want to miss. What better way to welcome St. Patrick’s Day.