Celtic gifts, prayer, dinner and music

Park Presbyterian Church, 110 Maple Court, Newark, invites you to a Celtic inspired day on December 1.

The Celtic Marketplace and Cottage will be open from 9 to 4 p.m. and offer many goods for sale including festive wreaths, quilted items, baked goods, jewelry, seasonal and Celtic items, gift baskets, handicrafts, as well as vendors such as Pampered Chef, Hymn and Her, and Tastefully Simple.

Father Christmas visits from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with gifts for the children. A soup luncheon ($3) will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Reverends J. Christy Wareham and Stuart Buisch will provide a Celtic Prayer Service at 2 p.m.

The evening's highlight will be the Christmas Ceilidh Band performing at 7:30 along with the Kintail School of Scottish Highland Dance. Kevin Angus and other area musicians Chuck Boda, Dick Bolt, Bevin Coggeshall, Joel Hume, and Peter Watson will provide Highland entertainment and Christmas songs form the Celtic nations.

Tickets will be sold at the door.

Instrumentation includes small pipes, Celtic harp, guitar, mandolin, whistles, bagpipes, fiddle, Celtic Bouzouki, cittern, concertina, percussion and multi-voice harmonies.

They been performing for holiday audiences since 2001 in area churches and community halls and have appeared at Genesee Country Village & Museum's Yuletide in the Country.

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