Christmas From a Celtic Table Returns to Scottsdale!
CHRISTMAS FROM A CELTIC TABLE
A
Feast of Music, Song, Poetry and Drama
Sheelagh Cullen
from Limerick, Ireland, came to Los Angeles from Hong Kong, where she was
co-founder of Actor's rep and involved as either actor or director in each
of its 40 productions. Previously she had worked in theatre and TV in England
and her native Ireland. Here in LA she appeared in The Bald Soprano, La Bete,
Senor Galindez (for which she won a Drama-Logue Award) and The Chairs at Stages
Theatre, Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare Festival/LA, Richard III at Theatricum
Botanicum, the Madwoman of Chaillot, Brecht on Brecht and Tis Pity she's a
Whore at the Odyssey Theater and Dance with Me at the Working Stage Theater.
Last year she also worked on the independent film Myron's Movie.
Margaret
O' Carroll,
Irish Soprano, Margaret O'Carroll, a Gold Medallist at the Dublin Feis Ceoil,
began her voice and piano
studies with her mother, Elizabeth, and continued at the Royal Irish Academy
of Music, in Dublin, and the Cork School of Music. Margaret credits her Wexford-born
mother for her deep love of storytelling. "She taught me how to sing
a song, how to tell a story. 'Sing from your heart' she would say."
Miss O'Carroll has an impressive performance history in her native Ireland, including oratorio (she sang her first Messiah with the late, great Irish tenor Frank Patterson), light opera, concerts, recitals, and tours with the National Folk Theatre of Ireland.
Margaret is one of the few classically trained
singers in traditional Irish
music today. Now a resident of Los Angeles, her main focus is the performance
and recording of Irish song.
In 2002 her debut CD 'Songs My Mother Taught Me, A Collection of Irish Songs' was submitted to the 45th Annual GRAMMY Awards Committee by Kerry Records for consideration in six categories including Song Of The Year and Best Traditional Folk Album.
Christine
Parker, studied piano and viola in her native
England, gained her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Music at 
Cambridge
University, and, as a student, she was a founder/member and repetiteur with
the University opera group.
In London she studied voice with Heddle Nash and joined the Ambrosian Singers with whom she made hundreds of recordings, concert appearances and broadcasts, often serving as rehearsal accompanist for Benjamin Britten, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Georg Solti and others. She studied with Simon Preston and was organist at the Carmelite Church, Kensington for 16 years. In addition, she coached leading British singers in opera, oratorio and lieder.
In 1980, after relocating to Los Angeles, Christine
Parker sang with Roger Wagner's Master Chorale, was a studio accompanist and
an opera and oratorio coach. Now a resident of Scottsdale, Arizona, she continues
to be active in music and returns to Los Angeles for special concert work.
CHRISTMAS
FROM A CELTIC TABLE
A Feast of Music, Song,
Poetry and Drama
with Sheelagh Cullen (Irish Actor as Presenter and Narrator)
Margaret O'Carroll (Soprano)
Christine Parker (Pianist)
SCOTTSDALE PERFORMANCE
Thur, December 8 - 7:30 p.m.
Louise Lincoln Kerr Cultural Center
6110 N. Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85253
(480) 596-2660
Tickets: $18.00 - $25.00
Children (12 & under) $12.00/$14.00
Tickets available
through the Kerr Center/Ticketmaster outlets
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