A Candlelit Concert of Celtic Music

First Parish in Lexington presents

A Candlelit Concert of Celtic Music

Directed by Rip Jackson

Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 7 PM

7 Harrington Road, Lexington, MA 02421

The First Parish Festival choir, soloists, and Celtic instrumentalist, directed by Rip Jackson, will present a candlelit concert of choral, vocal, and instrumental music from Scotland, Ireland, and the Celtic diaspora. Renowned bagpiper and eclectic Celtic musician Daniel Meyers will be joined by an instrument ensemble including percussion, fiddlers, guitar, bass, uilleann pipes, tin whistle, and keyboards. The concert will take place on Sunday, November 10, 2024, at 7 PM at First Parish in Lexington, at 7 Harrington Road, Lexington, MA.  A free-will offering will be received, and public parking is available in the rear of the church. For more information visit www.fplex.org or email music@fplex.org.

Versatile multi-instrumentalist  Dan Meyers is a flexible and engaging performer of both classical and folk music; his credits range from premieres of contemporary chamber music to a solo multi-bagpipe concert at the Newport Folk Festival, to playing Renaissance instruments on Broadway for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Company. He is a founding member of the early music/folk crossover group Seven Times Salt, and in recent seasons he has performed with The Folger Consort, The Newberry Consort, Hesperus, Dünya, The Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Early Music New York, Amherst Early Music, The 21st Century Consort, In Stile Moderno, and the Cambridge Revels, making concert and theatrical appearances in NYC, Washington DC, Chicago, Minneapolis, Memphis, Santa Fe, at the Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont, and at at the “La Luna e i Calanchi” festival in Basilicata (Italy). He enjoys playing traditional Irish music with the bands Ulster Landing and Ishna, as well as eclectic fusion from around the Mediterranean with the US/Italy-based group Zafarán; he also played winds and percussion for over a decade with the award-winning Italian folk music group Newpoli. As an educator, he has taught historical wind instruments for the Five Colleges Early Music Program in Massachusetts, at Tufts University, and festivals and workshops around the Northeast.

For more information, visit his website at: www.danmeyersmusic.com