As a founding member of Celtic Thunder, Hickman has performed at the White House. Glaub is a Wake Forest graduate who lived and worked in Dublin for six years and Goodan is a self-taught bodhran player, who has lived and traveled in Ireland. Another musical group, the Morris Family, will demonstrate the links between Celtic and immigrant American music. The outdoor event will also feature hands-on crafts for children, as well as storytelling and poetry reading. Irish food will be for sale.
Admission is free.
Wake Forest student and dancer Sinead O'Doherty and members of the Triad Irish Dancers will teach the jig and the reel from 11 a.m. to noon on March 20 in Wake Forest's Benson University Center. Admission is free. Mary Helen Huff, assistant professor of theater at Wake Forest, will direct the 8 p.m. performance. In his plays as in his poetry, Yeats drew on the rich body of Irish myth and legend. Admission is free.