Máiréad Nesbitt's Celtic Spells
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $18 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $18
Balcony $34
Loge $49
Main Floor $74
This show is included in 2021-2022 full season tickets, half season package B, and the Music Series. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.
Some journeys in love are easy, others are not...some are forgotten, some echo through time.
In Ireland in the early 1900's, a young man met the eyes of a young woman, and a Spell was cast. An instant, passionate, soulful connection.
He was born of a life of wealth and privilege from the North of Ireland. Protestant. She was born of meager means from the South of Ireland. Catholic.
A choice to stay or go...to follow the heart...or surrender to demands - of family, of culture, of times, of religion.
They were told - know your place, accept your life.
Could love make anything possible? Surrender everything for love? If you choose it - a new life in a new land and more than a heart could celebrate - and endure.
Love and loss. Passion and struggle. As old a story as any could be, as real and relevant as today. This is their story; these are their Celtic Spells.
A new production by one of the founding members of Celtic Woman, Nesbitt returns to the stage of storytelling, spellbinding traditions, with Celtic Spells.
About Máiréad Nesbitt
A Grammy and Emmy nominated artist and composer, Máiréad Nesbitt has enchanted millions around the world as the featured Celtic violinist and one of the founding members of the globetrotting music phenomenon Celtic Woman. Loyal fans of all ages, across geographical and cultural boundaries far beyond the musical heritage of Ireland, have adored her beguiling stage presence and versatile instrumental talents. She is the featured violin soloist on eleven Celtic Woman albums, all of which reached the number one slot on the Billboard World Music Chart.
Máiréad grew up in a multi-generational musical family in County Tipperary. Her parents are renowned music educators and all five of her siblings are award winning musicians!
A former all-Ireland fiddle champion and past member of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, Máiréad completed her studies at CIT, Cork School of Music, under Cornelia Zanidache and at the London Royal Academy, with post-graduate studies under Emanuel Hurwitz on violin and piano. As musical influences, Máiréad cites her family, along with a wide range of musicians that includes classical violinist Itzhak Perlman, jazz great Stephane Grappelli, bluegrass icon Alison Krauss, Irish fiddlers Liz Carroll, Michael Coleman, and Andy McGann, and rock performers like David Bowie, Sting, and Bjork.
Hailed as “A demon of a fiddle player” by the NY Times, Máiréad has emerged as one of Ireland's most in-demand musicians. Her multitude of awards include Irish Music Magazine’s Best Traditional and Multi-Instrumentalist Artist awards.
Máiréad’s solo albums, Raining Up and Hibernia, have charted on four different Billboard and Heatseeker charts. The album Devil’s Bit Sessions features three generations of her family and was recorded in the three-hundred-year-old Nesbitt family home in County Tipperary, Ireland.
Máiréad began her professional career at sixteen with the prestigious RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Despite her young age, Máiréad’s playing was featured on the original soundtracks of the shows Riverdance, Lord of the Dance, and Feet of Flames, resulting in touring the world as the lead fiddler with the latter two shows. She composed the original music score for the show Irish Dance Invasion, is featured on the Celtic Tenors' Live in Concert DVD, and is the featured violin soloist on the soundtrack of two Disney films, Tinker Bell and Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure.
Máiréad's distinctive blend of traditional Irish and classical styles is featured in her work with such international artists as: Nigel Kennedy, Van Morrison, Sinéad O'Connor, Clannad, Emmylou Harris, Aslan, Chris De Burgh, Jimmy Webb, Sharon Shannon, Paul Brady, Frances Black, Cooney and Begley, Jimmy McCarthy and Dónal Lunny's Coolfin.
Máiréad has performed at both the White House and the Pentagon for four U.S. presidents. Additionally, among the hundreds of prestigious venues where she has performed are Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks Colorado and Hyde Park in London.
A guest soloist at Carnegie Hall in 2017 and 2018 with renowned artists Sibylle Szaggars Redford and the Tim Janis Ensemble, she is featured with Tim Janis on Celtic Lands now available on Netflix.
Máiréad made her Broadway debut in 2018 at the Broadway Theatre in the multi-genre spectacular Rocktopia, which had a six-week sold out run.
In addition to having her own successful signature line of violins, Máiréad has designed a distinctive new jewelry collection, the Máiréad Nesbitt Jewelry Collection. It was recently debuted and is sold exclusively on Jewelry Television and at JTV.com.
This show is exclusively sponsored by Tim Ryan Construction (TRC)
