What's a Cèilidh?
A "cèilidh" (pronounced “kay-lee”) is many things. It derives from the Gaelic word meaning “a visit” and originally meant just that. It can also mean a house party, a concert or more usually an evening of informal traditional dancing to informal traditional music. In Scotland and the Canadian Maritime provinces, when the winter evenings turn long and cold, a “kitchen cèilidh” is an informal gathering at someone's house, where friends, relatives, and neighbours all come to pile their boots up in a corner and sing, dance, play instruments, eat, drink, be merry, and generally lock the winter outside for a night.
And it doesn’t have to be winter either to have such a gathering of friends and we aim to prove that this summer. We’ll lock out the balmy weather and keep cool by thinking of the cool lochs and wind-swept Highlands of Scotland.
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Bring your musical instruments (fiddles, whistles, bagpipes, harps, guitars, drums, etc.), your dancing feet, your singing voices, traditional songs, lyrical poems, witty jokes, old stories and join us for a casual evening of sharing Scottish music and culture.
Kilts optional. Bring munchies (potluck) and liquid refreshments will be available.
For our address and directions to the Center, click here.
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