Enjoy holiday cheer and sumptuous appetizers catered by Brian Leary of Perspective Catering. Warm up with a cup of Wassail, a traditional hot, spiced holiday drink, as you mingle with the decorators and shop ahead of the crowds at the fabulous Holiday Boutique. The Bearded Barkeep will have whisky tastings featuring samples of three distinct Scottish whiskies. The evening will also feature Celtic guitar and fiddle music from Dan Faiella and Audrey Budington.
This year’s theme is Celtic Christmas! Come dressed in your favorite holiday look with a Celtic touch. Think festive greens, deep reds, tartans, plaids, cozy knits, velvet, or subtle Celtic-inspired accessories. No costume required—just add a little Celtic flair to your holiday style! Visit our Pinterest Board for more outfit inspiration here!
Evening tickets are $100 per person, includes one return ticket. Consider becoming a Merry Mistletoe Sponsor, tickets $250 per person includes three return tickets and a listing as a sponsor for Christmas at The Fells. Advanced registration is required.
You won’t want to miss this magical evening!
About Audrey: A Concord Community Music School alumna, Audrey Budington received a B.M. magna cum laude from Berklee College of Music in Boston where she was awarded a scholarship and studied extensively with the likes of Darol Anger, Maeve Gilchrist, and Eugene Friesen. Audrey has amassed a performance resume like no other. She was selected by Grammy award-winning arranger and record producer Rob Lewis to play in a house band for the TV show pilot Legendary. She has shared the stage with such luminaries as Rosanne Cash and Esperanza Spalding, opened for Black Violin, and was a guest artist for Darlingside. Audrey holds a certificate in Suzuki Book One and enjoys teaching beginner violin as well as New England, Irish, and Scottish fiddle styles to students of all ages. She believes that music, as the most powerful language in the world, can bring anyone together.
About Dan: Dan Faiella is a guitarist specializing in traditional Celtic music. Trained as an accompanist through years of playing for New England contradances and for Irish fiddlers, he has performed at venues and festivals around the country with numerous traditional music groups. In his solo playing, Dan’s fingerstyle arrangements of traditional songs and tunes draw extensively on techniques and ornamentation from traditional idioms beyond those directly related to the guitar, such as Celtic harp-playing, sean-nós singing, and uilleann piping. Over many years of playing solo and collaboratively, he has developed an ability to adapt and synthesize these sounds into the context of the unique arrangement capabilities of the guitar. Dan is also a landscape painter, whose work can be found in private collections around the United States.
This event was funded in part by a grant from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.