Lead Singer Fionnuala Gill of Riverdance to Perform in Welcoming Celtic New Year
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (October 27, 2010) Iona College’s Spirituality Institute and Schola Ministries will present an evening of music, poetry and prayer in honor of the Celtic New Year at 7:30 PM, Saturday, October 30, at the college’s Arrigoni Center, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle. Fionnuala Gill, the noted Irish singer, harpist and lead singer of Riverdance will be the featured performing artist.
Sister Kathleen Deignan, CNP, Ph.D., founder and director of Spirituality Institute, said: “In the Celtic world, the New Year is ushered in with the Festival of Samhain, a season that honors the end of summer, the darkening of the days, the remembrance of the beloved dead – a time of opening to worlds that lie beyond the thin veil of this world. And in the Christian community, this is the season for honoring our saints and remembering our holy souls.”
Other artists performing will be the young Celtic bard from Belfast, Robbi McMillen; poet and playwright Ann Deignan; Uilleann piper and Irish lutist Jerry O’Sullivan; guitarist Beth Bradley; percussionists Marion Najamy and Gina Sader-Rubenstein; pianist Rob Silvan; sacred choreographer and dancer Sandra Rivera and psalmist and recording artist Kathleen Deignan.
For more information, call (914) 633-2590.
Founded in 1940 by the Congregation of Edmund Rice Christian Brothers, Iona College is a private, coeducational institution of learning in the tradition of American Catholic higher education. Iona – currently listed in the top tier of US News and World Report’s annual “America’s Best Colleges 2011”; The Princeton Review’s Best Northeastern Colleges 2011 edition and Business Week’s Top 25 Undergraduate Business Schools in the Northeast – offers undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, science, and business administration, as well as Master of Arts, Master of Science and master of business administration degrees and numerous post-graduate certificate programs.
