On Saturday, October 10th at 7:30 PM Celtic Crossroads will begin their second US Tour on the stage of the Camden Opera House in Camden, Maine. Their first US tour in 2007 sold out and saw nightly standing ovations. This years tour is being filmed for a pilot TV program, and the group will be filmed in March of 2010 for their very own National Public Broadcasting special.

The live concert is a spectacle of talent, featuring seven world-class musicians, who play over twenty instruments on stage, and show how Irish music influenced the global birth of a multitude of musical genres. This show features high kicking dance, inventive arrangements and bass driven grooves along with unsurpassed showmanship.

The name Celtic Crossroads originates from a time in Ireland when neighbouring communities met at the crossroads between towns and villages to socialize # long before the pub tradition began. Magical interludes from the haunting uilleann pipes, whistles, and of course the celtic harp along with some of Irelands finest exponents of traditional song transport the listener to that crossroads in Ireland.

Tempestuous fiddle playing competes with explosive banjo, intricate mandolin, accordion, mandola and bouzouki and awe-inspiring guitar riffs, while silky classical flutes remind the audience that these fiercely traditional musicians are also classically trained. Throw in thunderous bodhran rhythms, drumkit, saxophone and cajon and the audience finds themselves recklessly and ecstatically stomping along.

As the thunder starts to take hold, rhythms beating, Irish dancers defying laws of speed and gravity, musicians swopping instruments before your eyes, building and rising from a slow groove to a climactic, epic and all encompassing wildness of unadulterated genius, audiences are unable to prevent themselves from jumping to their feet in thunderous ovation.

Reserved seating tickets are $16 children 12 and under; $25 - $30 depending on section.
Available (listed in order of least fees to most) at Camden Town Office Monday # Friday from 9 AM # 2 PM, online at: www.camdenoperahouse.com or by calling (207) 470-7066.

FMI: visit them on the web at: www.CelticCrossroads.ie or at www.camdenoperahouse.com