New activity: Musical Show – Celtic Throne

Barbara: I’ve always loved Irish music and dancing and luckily my guy enjoys it too so I had no trouble convincing him to join me for a performance of Celtic Throne.

This performance was excellent and it was quite different from other Celtic dance shows I’ve seen as it incorporated not only Irish dance but flips, gymnastics, martial arts, and stick fighting. The troop cast ranged in age from early elementary school as young as 7 to young adults. So much fun seeing a stage of kids already having learned the high stepping and tap of Irish dancing. Plus watching the men dance and simulating a fight while wielding and spinning large sticks left me wondering just how many times they had to practice till they didn’t smack each other with the sticks. It was pretty darn impressive. Now I’m off to go through all my old CDs and find the one I got in an Irish pub in Dublin!