The fun begins after the sound check at 7:30pm. All dances are taught and called as we dance until 11pm. (13 and older please.)
No experience or partner required, just folks that want to enjoy an evening of music (yes, you may attend and just enjoy the music) and dance.
Jeff will be leading a special Palm Sunday Selah Service at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church on Camano Island, WA at 5PM. He will be joined by singer and long-time collaborator, Janet Chvatal & instrumentalist, Eliot Grasso (uilleann pipes, whistles, & flute).
Broken Wide Open is a solo theatre show featuring Shana Pennington-Baird telling her story about surviving an aortic dissection while traveling alone in Ireland. This hour-long musical story includes ten songs and forty minutes of comedic and dramatic narrative including a 6-person Celtic band. This poignant and hysterical show takes the audience through the harrowing and terrifying experience of almost dying alone and what it took to get back home to Seattle.
TICKETS HERE
> Thursday, March 7, 2024, 7:30PM
> Friday, March 8, 2024, 7:30PM
> Saturday, March 9, 2024, 7:30PM
> Sunday, March 10, 2024, 1:30PM
Paper presentation at CiRCE’s FORMA Symposium titled “The Art of Living Well through the Practice and Patterns of Music.”
Christmas Presence is an offering of stories and songs centering on the joys, struggles, humor, and mystery of Christmas. Featuring the music of Dréos and guest Martha Moultry, the company renders characters ranging from the Innkeeper and the Wise Men to children and housewives, interspersed with sublime, evocative music.
More about Narrow Shoes Productions.
Cast – David Snider, Jeany Van Meltebeke Snider, Martha Moultry
Music by Dréos – Eliot Grasso, Brandon Vance, Glen Waddell with pianist Julianne Shepard.
A concert of stirring Celtic instrumental and vocal from Eliot Grasso (uilleann pipes, flute, whistle) and Adam Hendey (guitar and voice).
At Festival of Ideas, speakers from a variety of disciplines, including mathematics, literature, philosophy, science, art, music, and history aim to give participants a taste of what true leisure feels like: a gateway to the good life--a life in pursuit of beauty, truth, goodness, and perfection. These presentations are intended to inspire great conversations filled with wonder, passion, and discovery.
In the long absence of King Richard, sinister Sheriff of Nottingham claims power. Enigmatic, unstoppable Robin Hood matches with brave, brilliant Maid Marian. BFan’s 2023 world premiere is irresistible dance theater, great personality, and a story where good wins.
Featuring BFan’s legendary new dance theater, international artists, and an all-female creative team at the helm.
The Odyssey of These Days is an original, two-part collaboration of fine arts, live music, and dance by local creators, featuring paintings by Wesley Hurd, compositions by Eliot Grasso, live music by Dréos, and choreography by Tiese Morgan and Dance Veritas. Act 1 explores the human struggle to find hope amidst grief and loss, giving kinetic, visual, and aural texture to humanity’s inarticulable responses to suffering and the redemptive power of hope. Act 2 celebrates the heartwarming complexity of living in community, presenting a playful snapshot of family life that is sure to delight and inspire.
Ancient Ireland is a mesmerizing world driven by elemental powers and dragons, gatekeepers to other worlds and guardians of the treasures of the universe. Summers span decades.Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle to battle Stoorwyrm begins.Fierce movement, riotous live music, dragons, goddesses, treasure.
LIVE MUSIC: Gerry Rempel (Music Director, electric/acoustic guitars, bouzouki), Eliot Grasso (uilleann pipes, flute, whistle, fiddle), John Polese (keyboards, accordion, recorder), Oscar Watson (acoustic/electric percussion), Rick Carter (acoustic/electric bass), and Cindy Kenny and Alyse Jamieson (vocalists).
Eliot Grasso is an award-winning, internationally recognized performer and recording artist. Grasso has performed extensively at venues including Constitution Hall, the Library of Congress, the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, National Geographic, and the Kennedy Center. He has collaborated with actor Russell Crowe, Grammy-winning conductor David Sabee, and Garrison Keillor. Contemporaries claim that Grasso’s “intuitive sense of melodic and technical variation make him one of the most creative and dynamic musicians in the contemporary world of Irish traditional music,” and call him “one of the finest uilleann pipers in the history of Irish music in America.”
LIVE BROADCAST: This concert will be live broadcast to international audiences (Sunday, Mar. 8 @ 2:30 pm PST)—see link below.
Featuring concert premieres from 14 blockbuster video games, including World of Warcraft, Assassin’s Creed, BioShock, Overwatch, and more, Game ON! combines unrivaled, world-class symphonic arrangements with stunning in-game HD videos and never-before-seen concept art.
Join Dréos for a Saint Patrick's Day celebration in the Resonance space at Sonoma Towers!
Northwest Folklife is honored and excited to share the 5th annual series of curated, family-friendly cultural arts performances featuring the music of the various cultures within the Pacific Northwest!
Dréos is a Celtic music ensemble of performing composers who invent and arrange new and old music using a traditional vocabulary. Following the release of their debut recording The Clearing, you’re invited to join with this exciting trio as they light up the dance music of Ireland and Scotland. Dréos brings together the blazing piping of Eliot Grasso, virtuosic fiddling of Brandon Vance, and powerhouse accompaniment of Glen Waddell, for an evening of fiery dance music and soul-filling songs, new and old. Bring your dance shoes!
Ballet Fantastique’s world premiere contemporary ballet The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a wickedly funny new adaptation of Washington Irving’s classic tale of superstition and rivalry.Choreographers Donna and Hannah Bontrager bring Ballet Fantastique’s signature wit and verve to this sumptuous and all-original romantic comedy spoof, fusing Colonial American whimsy with electric guitar and violin music as would-be hero Ichabod Crane confronts his desires, fears, and—of course—the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, in pursuit of his love, Katrina. Musical collaborators Dréos (with internationally acclaimed musician Eliot Grasso and his hand-picked musical ensemble) and Gerry Rempel Ensemble provide decadent and playful new rock and world music, as well as new original compositions created especially for this inimitable new romantic comedy ballet.
Also: performances on OCT. 28 AT 7:30 PM (tickets going fast!) and OCT. 29 AT 2:30 PM
The Music and Cognition Research Team is comprised of psychologists and musicologists who together explore two of the greatest frontiers in human civilization: music and the brain. The mission of this new research team is to build knowledge about the brain by studying cognitive and neuroanatomical function using musical creativity as a vehicle. Toward this end the research team will investigate differences in neuroanatomical functioning between highly trained musicians and non-musicians. This information will guide further exploration on how acquiring musical competence may affect neural processing.
Hailed as “exacting and exciting musicians” (Los Angeles Times), the three South Korean sisters have earned a distinguished reputation for embracing 21st century classical music with their unique style and innovative collaborations, including works by Bernstein, Haydn, Jimi Hendrix, Kenji Bunch, and Prince. Eliot will comment on this diverse repertoire.
The event will recognize the seven Celtic Nations (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, Galicia and Isle of Man) through live music, speakers, workshops and immersive/hands-on activities that will be educational and fun for the whole community.
Dr. Grasso will address the relevance of giving American students an education based in classical literature, for our modern day. This talk is part of a professional development seminar for the American Heritage Escondido Charter High School in California.
This event is free and open to the public.
Eliot will offer insights into the repertoire performed by the Shanghai Quartet. On the program is Mendelssohn, Bridge, and Dvořák
Dr. Eliot Grasso will be giving a guest lecture for anthropologist Dr. Pamelan Moro's Intro to Ethnomusicology class "Listening to the World."
2nd Saturday Community Concerts, 2016-2017. Doors 6:45, concert 7:30pm, all community. $20 door if not bought prior!
Dr. Eliot Grasso explains the aesthetics and concept behind his award-winning chamber work The Odyssey of These Days.
Come celebrate the week of St. Patrick with family-friendly live Irish Music at the Old Redmond School House, featuring Internationally acclaimed uillean piper and scholar Eliot Grasso, and two-time U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion, Brandon Vance, with Susan Burke also on fiddle, and northwest guitarist Dan Carollo.
They will be joined by the the extraordinary footwork of the Tara Academy Dancers.
Painter Wesley Hurd and composer Eliot Grasso have collaborated to produce The Odyssey of These Days, a multidisciplinary exhibit of art and music that explores the depths of loss, struggle, grief and hope.
Eliot will offer insights into the repertoire performed by the Dover Quartet and special guest, the virtuosic, charismatic, and Grammy Award-winning mandolin player Avi Avatal. The quartet showcases their prodigious talents with works from Bach to Bruce.
Celtic Music Hour hosts will interview Eliot Grasso and Wesley Hurd about their ongoing collaboration for the Eugene Art Exhibit The Odyssey of These Days.
