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Friday, December 20–Saturday, December 21
Kirkland Performance Center
Celtic Christmas Celebrations
THREE SHOWS!
Kirkland Performance Center
Kirkland, WA
Tickets available now!

Evening Show: Friday, December 20, 7pm
Matinee Performance: Saturday, December 21, 3pm
Evening Performance: Saturday, December 21, 7pm

Featuring The Seattle Irish Dance Company, special vocal guest (and former Miss Kirkland!) Emily McIntosh, Dan Connolly, and the Celtic Night All-Star Band! And because it’s Kirkland, where this all started, there might be even more special guests…

Sunday, December 22
Celtic Christmas Celebration
Wenatchee Convention Center
121 N Wenatchee Ave
Wenatchee, Washington
TWO SHOWS
Tickets available now!

Two shows! Matinee 3pm, and an evening show at 7pm. (With a special Dinner & Show package available!)

This is going to be a major holiday carnival extravaganza with fun things for the whole family all day long! Featuring The Seattle Irish Dance Company, special vocal guest (and former Miss Kirkland!) Emily McIntosh, Dan Connolly, bagpiper Don Scobie, and the Celtic Night All-Star Band!

More… 
Shannon Castle Art
Shannon Castle Art
Angels, Mermaids,
Mandalas, and more…
Deep Well Sessions

Deep Well Sessions - Istanbul Watch "Istanbul,"
from The Deep Well Sessions.

Captive

Captive

Captive was voted one of the top five albums of the year (contemporary instrumental album/electric) by readers of Sounds of Seattle magazine, and nominated for a 2000 SAMIE (Seattle Area Musical Innovation and Excellence) award in the Best Contemporary Instrumental Album/electric category.

In the 70s and 80s, Shadowfax forged a union between fusion and world music. Now the Guarneri Underground is picking up that cue. Led by the twin violins of [Geoffrey Castle] and John Schussler, The Guarneri Underground changes clothes at a global bazaar, donning middle-eastern dumbeks and and African cross-picked guitar on "Big Island," and the Australian didgeridu and African talking drums on the hypnotic "Bloodmoon." In addition to his violin, Schussler doubles on bouzouki, guitars, flute, and all kinds of African-Asian percussion. Not all the Underground's songs are an ethnic stew, however. "Mango Twister" is a gentle ballad, while "Assisi" gets into a cyclical groove that recalls Jean-Luc Ponty. The Underground's fusion roots are readily apparent when bandmates crank up the wah-wah pedal on "Bathers as Asnieres" and "Captive," conjuring images of Ponty, Jerry Goodman, and the best from fusion's halcyon days."
— Billboard Magazine, December 16, 2000
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