Christmas with the Celts

Recently, the advanced Irish dancers from my dance school were asked to perform with The Celts on their Christmas with the Celts tour. Christmas with the Celts isn't just your average group of premier Irish, Scottish, and American musicians playing Celtic music & Christmas carols. The band consists of singers, pipes, fiddle, a full percussion set, and even a string quartet and children's choir from each city ...and then some. The show has amazing production, lighting, and effects. From an audience standpoint, Christmas with the Celts is non-stop world-class Celtic entertainment with a Christmas twist.

Oh, and the band tours with champion Irish dancer & captivating performer: Alice Ann Robinson... Needless to say, we were all thrilled to have the opportunity to perform with The Celts! 

We just LOVE Alice Ann's black patent leather soft shoes! 

{She's wearing the silver sequined dress}

 Pretty points, velvet, & gold... perfect for a winter performance! 

 Best part of the show {aside from the phenomenal music & dancing} for me? 

Alice Ann and I were campers together at the very first summer of Camp Rince Ceol! 

Getting to perform on stage with my old camp friend really touched my heart. 

After the show: Camp Rince Ceol reunion 

We couldn't believe it had been 12 years since we were campers together!

The Celts are ending their Christmas with the Celts tour tonight in Arberdeen, Washington. I hope you got a chance to see The Celts if they were in your city! If not... their Christmas with the Celts CD {available here} makes a great gift, or music for any holiday party... I've been playing it in my car for weeks!

Thank you so much, The Celts, for the opportunity to be a part of your Orlando show of the Christmas with the Celts tour! The dancers & I had so much fun! We were so inspired by the musicians, and of course the  lovely & talented Alice Ann.

Have you seen The Celts or Christmas with the Celts? Does your school perform for the holidays?

Keep Dancing,
Moira 

Iconic Hard Shoes giveaway WINNER!

Happy 4th of July, Irish Dancers! Best of luck to all the talented dancers at the North American Irish Dance Championships this week!

I'm also SO SO SO excited to announce the winner of On My Toes' first giveaway, an amazing pair of heavy shoes from Iconic Dancer!!! These hard shoes are fabulous, stylish, and sound awesome! [How do I know?? ... I have my very own pair and I LOVE THEM!]

Congratulations to Louise Hennessy!!! Look out for more info about your AWESOME hard shoes via email!! 

Thank you to all the dancers who entered!

Don't forget to check out Iconic Dancer on Facebook for more updates about their trend-setting shoes!

Keep Dancing... & have a Happy [and safe!] Independence Day,
Moira

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Happy Thank You Post :)

As I confessed in my post last week, I'm slightly hopelessly addicted to Pinterest. So, you can imagine my overwhelming excitement when I came across an unexpected pin while looking at Irish dance pinboards...

....It's ME! I did a double-take. Can't find me? Don't worry, I'll help :)

I also love that whoever made this pinboard also pinned some of my absolute favorite blogs: The Long Road to the TCRG, Shelly Hathaway's The Irish Dancer Blog, Confessions of a Feis Mom, Irish Central, and the Irish Dance Teacher's Blog [look on the right side of my blog for links to all those wonderful blogs, and more].

I just wanted to take this post to thank all of you wonderful readers & followers! I love writing this blog, but without readers, writing would be pretty pointless. Thanks for following my blog, twitter, and pinterest. Who knew comments on my blog, retweets on twitter, and this little pin on pinterest could feel this awesome?! You guys are the BEST!

Keep Dancing,

Moira