Fermilab show recreates Irish Christmas customs

"Tomáseen Foley is sharing with American audiences what Christmas was like for him as a boy growing up in 1960s Ireland.

Foley’s “A Celtic Christmas” recreates Christmas Eve in a farmhouse in the remote parish of Teampall an Ghleanntain in the west of Ireland.

It’s a night of community, when neighbors gather together and tell stories, dance and play music. It will be performed at 8 p.m. Dec. 11 at Ramsey Auditorium in Fermilab’s Wilson Hall in Batavia.

“In those days, there were rambling houses. There were homes where neighbors rambled to at Christmastime and they would bring instruments with them,” Foley said. “These were long nights of singing and dancing and storytelling, and we attempt to recreate that onstage.”"

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