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Tomaseen Foley - Featuring in A Celtic Christmas & Irish Times
Director/Native Irish Storyteller
Storyteller/Director Tomáseen Foley was born on a small farm in the remote parish of Teampall an Ghleanntáin in the West of Ireland. Each year from Thanksgiving until Christmas, his show Tomáseen Foley's A Celtic Christmas plays to critical acclaim and packed concert halls around the US. Tomáseen Foley’s Irish Times tours throughout the remainder of the year. The Oregon Cabaret has developed a hit musical from his story Parcel From America. He has released two CDs: A Celtic Christmas: Parcel From America, and a live recording, The Priest and the Acrobat. Rego Irish Records says he is a master of the Irish narrative and a keeper of the flame for a priceless piece of Irish culture.
www.tomaseenfoley.com
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Marianne Knight -Featuring in A Celtic Christmas
Vocalist, the button accordion, wooden flute, whistles and bodhrán, World Champion level traditional Irish Dancer
Vocalist Marianne Knight comes from the rich traditional- music environment of Co. Mayo, in the west of Ireland. Hotpress Magazine says, ‘Her clear, bright voice and crisp ornamentation make her one of the most exciting vocalists to come along in years.’
In addition to her singing, she is a musician of renown on several instruments -- the button accordion, wooden flute, whistles and bodhrán.
As an Irish dancer she has won the American Nationals and Scottish Nationals, and competed with distinction in the British, Canadian, All-Ireland and World championships.
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William Coulter -Featuring in A Celtic Christmas & Irish Times
Music Director/Guitar
Music Director William Coulter is an internationally acclaimed master of the steel-string guitar. In 2005, he won a Grammy for a track he contributed a solo guitar compilation of Henry Mancini tunes, called Pink Guitar. He has been performing and recording traditional Celtic and American folk music for 25 years. The most recent of his seven CDs on the Gourd Music label is the acclaimed solo album, The Road Home.
www.williamcoulter.com
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Brian Bigley -Featuring in A Celtic Christmas & Irish Times
Uilleann pipes, whistle, flute, World Champion-level traditional Irish Dancer.
From the age of eight, Brian Bigley studied the traditional, rarely heard, uilleann pipes with Achill Island (Co. Mayo) piper Michael Kilbane -- with whom he also studied flute, whistle and low whistle. He was awarded first prize for piping at the 2007 Midwest Regional Fleadh Cheoil and has been guest artist with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland. He has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and the UK. He is a world champion Irish step dancer and competed with distinction in the World Championships in Glasgow in 2002 and in Killarney in 2003.
www.brianbigleymusic.com
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Kathleen Keane -Featuring in Irish Times
fiddle and tin whistle
Kathleen Keane’s virtuoso music -- fiddle and tin whistle -- is featured in
The Titanic, Backdraft, The Road to Perdition and The Cinderella Man.
Considered a child prodigy on the tin whistle, the Chicago Tribune
nominated her as “one of the world’s finest Celtic Fiddlers.” She studied
Irish step dancing under Michael Flatley (Riverdance/ Lord of the Dance)
and went on to become a champion Irish dancer.
www.kathleenkeane.com
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Marcus Donnelly -Featuring in A Celtic Christmas
Irish Dance
From Ireland to Luxemburg and from Moscow to Paris, France and Paris, Texas, his leading performances with shows such as Ragús, Rhythm of the Dance, Celtic Legends, and most recently in the U.S. with Celtic Crossroads have created one of the most exhilarating, truly creative Irish dancers performing today.
Marcus first started dancing at the age of ten, in second-hand dance shoes his father bought for fifteen shillings in Dublin, and went on to compete with distinction in the All-Ireland and World Dance Championships before becoming a full-time professional dancer at the age of sixteen.
When he is not touring he works with his own dance company, Furious Feet, in Galway, Ireland.
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