The ‘January Man’ is coming and we’re here to welcome him in! Please join us as we send out the old year and welcome in the new with a selection of songs and tunes from the Celtic traditions.

Michael is a singer and song-searcher of Celtic and Maritime songs and ballads. A native of South Dakota who has soaked up songs and the sea air of Cape Ann for the past thirty-eight years, he loves to share the historical and cultural background of songs, and his Fishermen’s Ballads Project explores the 1874 Gloucester publication Fishermen’s Ballads and Songs of the Sea. He hosts Celtic music sessions at CK Pearl in Essex and Backbeat Brewing in Beverly and Celtic Music Sunset Sails on schooner Ardelle in Gloucester on Sunday evenings June thru September. Come join us!

Carol performs on Celtic harp in many musical settings around the North Shore, including orchestras, ensembles, church services and public and private events. She received her BA in Music from Stanford University, where she studied Classical music on the pedal harp. Since then she has been drawn more to folk and Celtic music, which she plays on the lever harp. She has been a member of the New England Irish Harp Orchestra, a teacher at the Comhaltas Irish Music School in Boston, and a past winner of the Scottish Harp competition at the New Hampshire Highland Games. She teaches private harp lessons at her home studio in Ipswich, MA.