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Old Art Building hosts Switchback – A Celtic Christmas Concert

Come and experience the magic of the holidays at the Old Art Building in Leland on Friday, Nov. 22, with Switchback – A Celtic Christmas Concert. Doors open at 6:30 pm with the concert running from 7-9 pm. The show will feature musicians Brian FitzGerald and Martin McCormack performing some Christmas standards, Irish melodies, and some originals. Voted the top duo for Irish music in Europe and North America by the Irish Music Association, they have shared the stage with luminaries from the Chieftains to Leon Russell to the Moody Blues.

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Ruby John, Native Fiddler

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Ruby John, 26, is a jewel of a girl. Her name fits her. She’s also a gifted and versatile fiddler. One balmy Friday evening in mid-June she’s entertaining families at the Little Traverse Inn, fiddling in the Ruby Sky Band with some of her friends: Dane Hyde, who sings and plays guitar; Katie O’Conner, a singer and Irish dancer; and John Driscoll, a flautist and singer. The next week she’ll play for a staff dance at the Interlochen Arts Academy’s opening of summer camp. And after that, Saturday July 15, from 7 p.m.-1 a.m., Tucker’s in Northport. She’s known for playing a Métis-style of fiddle as well as Celtic, and standard country-and-mountain-style.

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