Colcannon's Celtic Christmas Show

Galloway, NJ - This is the Christmas party everyone wants an invitation to attend!

A “Christmas Come-All-Ye’ with Colcannon at the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Performing Arts Center on Dec. 2 is a wonderful holiday presentation featuring great traditional and modern music, poems and stories. Audiences will enjoy all those great Irish Christmas tunes - a little wild, a little sad; as well as the famous tune about Mrs. Hooligan's immortal cake.

Show time is 4 p.m. Tickets are $33 and may be ordered online at  or by calling the Box Office at 609-652-9000. The Box Office is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 90 minutes before each performance. For Group Sales, please call 609-652-4786.     

No other holiday has the mystique of Christmas. Be it the solemnity and reverence surrounding Bethlehem or the camaraderie and gift-giving of the more secular celebrations, the moods of Christmas are many and rich. Colcannon’s Celtic Christmas is a celebration of those many moods. From a reverential medieval Irish hymn to a modern folksinger’s wry observations of the ‘Christmas in Brooklyn,’ Colcannon’s Celtic Christmas is a moving and joyous celebration of the season. There’s even a polka!

The five-piece band is comprised of Mick Bolger, vocalist for the group, singing in both English and his native Irish (Gaelic) language, and also playing the bodhran (the Irish goatskin drum); Mike Fitzmaurice, double bass and guitar; Jean Bolger fiddle and accordion; Brian Mullins, guitar, mandolin, mandocello, bouzouki and flute;  and Cynthia Jaffe on flutes and whistles.

This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

For patrons with special needs, the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Performing Arts Center offers wheelchair accessible seating, large type programs, and listening assistive devices.  Please identify any needs you may have when making a reservation. 

The Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Performing Arts Center, the Jersey Shore’s Center for the Arts, is located on the campus of Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ, on Jimmie Leeds Road in Galloway. Just 12 miles west of Atlantic City, the Center is easily accessible from the Garden State Parkway and the Atlantic City Expressway.

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Contact: 
Suzé DiPietro
Manager of the Performing Arts Center
Galloway, N.J. 08205
Suzé.DiPietro @Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ.edu
609-652-4927
stockton.edu/pac