Ottawa 
Events Description
The Barra MacNeils – An East Coast Christmas is a musical potpourri of traditional MacNeil family favourites gleaned from Christmas ceilidhs, midnight masses and the general festive frolic that accompanies each holiday season. With their captivating vocals, distinctive harmonies and extraordinary musicianship, The Barra MacNeils inject new life and energy into the sights and sounds of Christmas, prompting the Halifax Daily News to describe them as “a treasure of the East Coast, rich with tradition and unmatched in ensemble performance”; and the Globe & Mail to name the recording on which this tour is based “one of the best five Christmas albums of all time!”
The five MacNeil siblings – Lucy, Boyd, Stewart, Kyle and Sheumas – combine on a vast array of instruments including accordian, guitar, piano, fiddle, bodhran, mandolin, banjo, Celtic harp, tin whistles, bouzouki, flute … all underpinned by the nimble-fingered Jamie Gatti on bass. The result is a sound that is unmistakably The Barra MacNeils, one moment a rousing chorus, then a hauntingly beautiful Gaelic ballad, the next a flurry of foot-stomping instrumentals, which of course pulls one then another into a step-dancing revelry.
Who is it for?
All ages
HOW MUCH
Tickets : $92.00
How to get tickets?
Phone: 613-580-2700 Toll-Free: 1-866-752-5231
WHEN & WHERE
Date:
Monday, December 08, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Venue & Address
Meridian Theatres @ Centrepointe – Mainstage, 101 Centrepointe Dr, Ottawa, ON K2G 5K7
Wheelchair accessible
Free Parking
Accessible by Public Transport
