• There are a few tickets remaining for The Chieftains concert tonight. Most of them are single seats, but there are a few pairs in the upper balcony. You can buy online or get to the box office when the doors open. It's also possible someone may return unused tickets tonight. Details about the concert are here: http://www.concertseries.org/performances/2003-2004_season/chieftains.php
  
• Children's step dancing (ages 5 - 12) and tin whistle class will begin on Monday, January 26 and run for 8 weeks, 5:30 - 7 p.m. Cost is $85 for both. Tin whistles are available from us for $8. Register with CMCAA by calling 442-2048 or reply to this e-mail.
  
• Irish Set dancing for teens and adults, taught by Christine Harker, will begin on Thursday January 29 and run for 4-weeks. Cost is $25 or two people for $40. No experience and no partner is necessary. Register with CMCAA by calling 573-442-2048 or reply to this e-mail.
  
•  CMCAA is offering, through Columbia Parks and Recreation Irish social dancing for families and beginning tin whistle. Irish social dancing for families: Wednesdays January 28 - Feb 25 (skip 2/18) 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Cost is $35 for articipant and $25 for each additional family member Beginning Tin whistle: Wednesdays, Jan 28 - Feb 25 (skip 2/18) 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Cost is $35 plus $8 for whistle, if needed Register through Parks and Rec by calling 573-874-7460
  
• Ken Hines of the Boone Co Fire District Pipe Band is offering a beginning Highland Bagpipes class that will run 10 weeks, beginning Tuesday, February 3. Cost is $149 Register through th Career Center by calling 573-886-2289 or online at www.career-center.org 
  
• Spring session of CMCAA classes will begin March 1 and go for 8 weeks. Details will be posted on our web site this week. We'll be offering beginning and intermediate classes for: tin whistle, flute, fiddle, accordion, Irish language. We'll also offer Accompaniment for Traditional Music (for piano and guitar), and History of Irish Music.
  
• Deirdre Harnedy, our artist-in-residence was featured in the Niche column of the Columbia Tribune's Ovation section last Sunday. If you would like to read the article, it's online here: http://www.showmenews.com/2004/Jan/20040111Ovat009.asp
  
• Song Circle - We're attempting to start an Irish and Scottish themed song circle on Sunday evenings, beginning next week, January 25. If you would like to participate, reply to this e-mail. This will be a jam-session style group, with no commitment required and no cost. Just enthusiasm and a few songs are needed.
  
• Irish singer Tom Sweeney will be performing St. Louis on Sunday, March 7 at the The Radisson Hotel, 7750 Carondelet, Clayton, Mo. at 6:30PM. An evening with Tom is simply superb so give yourself a treat and experience what many people across miles and miles of music have know for a long time - that Tom Sweeney is the real thing.

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