OFFER EXPIRES JANUARY 22ND!!!!

For $50 ($45 for Friends), receive one ticket for each concert in 2010

• Malinky, January 30th
• Cherish the Ladies, February 13th
• Slide, March 6th

The Winter 2010 ticket package is available by check only through our regular postal address:

The Celtic Music Association
PO Box 30001
Des Moines, Iowa 50310

The Winter 2010 ticket package is not available through our ticket outlets or through Iowa Tix.  You can still buy tickets to the individual concerts from CMA board members, at the ticket outlets, or at the door at the usual prices. Tickets will sell out quickly. Order your tickets soon!

We will take orders for the package until January 15th, 2010.  If the order is received by December 15th, we will make every effort to have the tickets in your mailbox before Christmas.  After January 15th, 2010, this ticket package will no longer be available.

Scotland’s finest folksong quintet

Malinky has a reputation as one of Scotland’s most distinctive and accomplished folk bands. They have  a  hallmark song-based repertoire, performed by three superb lead vocalists and arrayed with tastefully inventive instrumentation.  Make sure to catch this rising star in the Celtic music scene on their North American Tour.

• “May be the finest young Scottish band since Silly Wizard” Boston Globe
• “Malinky should be one of the folk bands of 2009″ The Guardian, UK
• “Scots music at its most evocative” MOJO
• “producing great music…another gem of Scottish folk” Irish Music Magazine
• “a class act…just gets better each time you play it” fRoots
• “just glorious” Living Tradition • _____ Rock’n’Reel
• BOSTON GLOBE TOP 10 PICK OF 2008
• FOLK BAND OF THE YEAR NOMINEE, SCOTTISH TRAD MUSIC AWARDS 2008

Malinky web site

Holy Trinity Parish Hall
2926 Beaver Ave., Des Moines, IA

Doors open at 7:00
Concert starts at 8:00

We are besides ourselves on this one.  February 13th, Saturday Night, Valentine’s Day Weekend, have we got a treat for you.  Some old friends had an open date and asked if they could stop by.  It is our pleasure to oblige.

Cherish the Ladies Web Site

HOLY TRINITY PARISH HALL
2936 Beaver Ave.. Des Moines, Iowa
Doors open at 7PM, Concert begins at 8PM
Tickets at all outlets and Board Members
$18 in advance | $20 at the door

“Traditional musicians with attitude”

The Irish Times calls SLIDE (IRELAND) “traditional musicians with attitude” and credits the group with “bringing drawing room grandeur and high spirits together” with it’s diverse songs ,which range from soulful and sorrowful to contagiously energetic. Folk Roots Magazine proclaims, ”There’s plenty of action and flamboyance in Slides’ music,” which merges ‘swagger’ with traditional expertise.”

Slide – named after the liveliest and most exciting of the tune rhythms from the South of Ireland. This band consists of the youngest acclaimed artists from these renowned bands of the past 2 generations; Dé Danann, Stockton’s Wing, Liam Clancy’s Band all the way through to the Damien Dempsey Band and Danú,

This band, Slide, has honed an electrifying fresh sound, building on their deep roots and teaching expertise in Irish Traditional Music and they are “…taking Irish music to a new place”, Dónal Lunny.  From a mesmeric trance to a nail-biting energy, Slide entices the listener on a journey of musical exploration.  Be it a live performance or a carefully crafted recording, Slide will undoubtedly leave you on a high while taking you from sorrowful reflections to points of high spirited energy in between.

Slide Web Site

Did I ever mention that an evening with the Celtic Music Association is a cheap date?  An advance ticket for a CMA concert is a mere $18 (and $16.20 if you happen to be a Friend of the CMA.)  For the cost of one of our tickets, we promise that you will see a variety of the established and/or cutting edge artists from the Celtic world.

Other venues who host such events will likely charge you more for your ticket, charge you for parking and charge you a stiff price for beverages and memorabilia from the show.   We don’t do any of that.  The next time you want to satisfy the Celtic muse in your life, give us $20 for a great evening and we might even give you change back.  Let’s see if the Civic Center or Wells Fargo Arena can do that!

In the dead of this coming winter, we will have a whirlwind of activity with 3 concerts in just 36 days.  On January 30, 2010 we will host Malinky, a 5 member group from Scotland who will treat us to traditional Scots melodies and song, as well as their own original material.  If you enjoy Old Blind Dogs and the Tannahill Weavers, you will definitely find Malinky to your liking.

On February 13, 2010, we will host Cherish the Ladies from New York.  This is the 3^rd time the CMA has been able to host this gracious group.  This concert will likely sell out very quickly.  Stay tuned.  (Did I say we were a cheap Valentine’s date? Of course I did.)

Finally, to help you get your green going, we will host the Irish group Slide on March 6, 2010.  These guys rocked the house at the Milwaukee Irish Fest last summer.  We consider it a coup to have this band in time to kick-start St Patrick’s Day in fine style.

Did I say we were a cheap date? Of course I did.  This may be the best news of all.  The CMA is offering a package for the 3 concerts that I had just mentioned.  Here’s the deal; for $50 ($45 for current Friends of the CMA, it’s never too late to join) we will give you one ticket for each of the Malinky, Cherish the Ladies and Slide concerts.

This is the detail part:

This ticket package is available by check only through our regular postal address:

The Celtic Music Association

PO Box 30001

Des Moines, IA 50310.

We will not be selling the ticket package through our ticket outlets or through Iowa Tix You can still buy tickets to the individual concerts from CMA board members, at the ticket outlets, Iowa Tix or at the door at the usual prices.

We will take orders for the package until January 15, 2010.  If the order is received by December 15, 2009, we will make every effort to have the tickets in your mailbox by Christmas (hint, hint.)  After January 15, 2010, the ticket package will no longer be available.

OK, now we all know that a CMA concert is a cheap date, but we are never cheap on the talent.

Hope to see you at the show.

Brian Smith

2009-2010 President