Tompkins Corners Cultural Center will open its 2024 season with an evening of Celtic music featuring Liz Hanley, Jefferson Hamer, and the TCCC Ceili Band. 

Liz Hanley (fiddle, vocals) grew up in an Irish-American family in Boston. With a BM in violin performance from NYU, her repertoire spans genres from traditional Irish and American to rock and classical. She has toured globally with the Green Fields of America, the progressive folk rock ensemble Frogbelly and Symphony, and the chamber rock band Emanuel and the Fear. Hanley’s debut album, The Ecstasy of St Cecilia, featuring Jefferson Hamer, was hailed as “a gentle work of beauty” by FolkWorld. 

Jefferson Hamer is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has toured and recorded albums with Anais Mitchell (Child Ballads, winner of a BBC2 Folk Award), Sarah Jarosz (as guitarist and harmony singer on her Grammy-nominated Blue Heron Suite), and Session Americana. The Murphy Beds, his long-running traditional folk duo with Eamon O’Leary, has released two self-produced albums, about which the Huffington Post wrote, “(the album) bears repeated listening from start to finish, with ten beautiful, crystalline songs.”

The Tompkins Corners Ceili Band was established in 2020 under the direction of Joe Mahon and has performed at numerous TCCC events and Irish seisiúns.

Tickets will be available at the door.