{"id":107181,"date":"2021-06-28T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107181"},"modified":"2021-06-28T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T03:52:10","slug":"celtic-classic-announces-entertainment-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107181","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Classic Announces Entertainment Line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Featured Image: Celtic Aire, the premier Celtic and folk ensemble of the United States Air Force<\/em><\/p>\n<p>June 28, 2021: The Celtic Cultural Alliance has announced its music line-up for the Celtic Classic Highland Games and Festival, which will take place on September 24-26, 2021, in downtown Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited this year that many of our crowd favorites are returning, like Barleyjuice, while we have up and coming bands, such as Fig for a Kiss and Chivalrous Crickets,\u201d explained Jayne Ann Recker, Executive Director.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtic Classic has 5 free stages of Celtic music throughout the festival grounds and in the Ice House.\u00a0 Celtic bands will perform over 100 hours of free Celtic music, ranging in styles from traditional to Celtic rock.\u00a0 Many of the Celtic tunes are the traditional Irish jigs, shanties, drinking songs and ballads combined with lyrical story-telling.<\/p>\n<p>Celtic Aire, the premier Celtic and folk ensemble of the United States Air Force, will be performing on Saturday and Sunday.\u00a0 Formed in 2007, the group is comprised of four Airmen musicians from the United States Air Force Band\u2019s Singing Sergeants, the official chorus of the U.S. Air Force<\/p>\n<p>In addition to musical performances, O\u2019Grady Quinlan Irish Academy of Dance will have several performances throughout the festival weekend.\u00a0 With precision footwork and dazzling costumes, O\u2019Grady Quinlan shares the Irish culture through their performances.<\/p>\n<p>Celtic Classic will also see the return of Gene Sheninger of Wayside Farm. Sheninger will\u00a0 \u00a0demonstrate how border collies can herd sheep and ducks.\u00a0 Border collies have been used for herding for hundreds of years in the Celtic nations.<\/p>\n<p>For full line-up and schedule,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticfest.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.celticfest.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625021468522000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEzdv0x_oeOrQb8s-5O0zEweXW0Ow\">www.celticfest.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celtic Cultural Alliance will follow the latest CDC, state, and city health department standards at the Celtic Classic Highland Games and Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nMarcie Mulligan<br \/>\nCultural Outreach Coordinator<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticfest.org\/\">http:\/\/www.celticfest.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Image: Celtic Aire, the premier Celtic and folk ensemble of the United States Air Force June 28, 2021: The Celtic Cultural Alliance has announced its music line-up for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celtic Classic Announces Entertainment Line-up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5717,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bethlehem","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/celtic-aire.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}