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The Shows => Ancient Land => Topic started by: CWazyTom on July 19, 2018, 01:39:36 PM
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Massive Celtic Woman news today!
https://www.facebook.com/celticwoman/videos/10156533729192838/
We’ve been enjoying a bit of time off since our tour finished in June but have lots of exciting news on the horizon!
The first bit of news to share is that we will be filming a brand new tv special against the backdrop of the enchanting Johnstown Castle in county Wexford, Ireland. This will be the first big outdoor concert special that Celtic Woman has filmed since 2009’s Songs From The Heart.
Although the concert will not be on sale, we will have an invited audience there on the night. We will be offering a selected amount of complimentary tickets to our dedicated followers. To register your interest please email castle@celticwoman.ie
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I just saw this on my lunch break and I am absolutely speechless! Gregg and I will be in Ireland in September! I just sent my email with ticket interest and asked the exact date. Please please please be while we're there! OMG I'm flipping out right now!
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Still flipping out several hours later! So our Ireland trip is September 1st through 14th and we're traveling all around the country. We booked this trip nearly two years ago and it's to celebrate our ten year wedding anniversary. Being able to attend a Celtic Woman concert at a castle would make this trip absolutely perfect! I've had hope for quite awhile that they would at least do a show while we're there. Reading about this castle concert today is so incredibly awesome! Just need to know the date and if we can have tickets. Holy moly!!
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I am so glad Alex & Lynn were a part of Song's From The Heart ❤.
I'd be thrilled with Meav in a song or two or a former member would somehow grace the stage again like Meav did in Destiny. Now that this is a for sure reality leads to the only CW Member not been part of an outdoor castle venue special would be Lisa Lambe so if she was invited just for this even as Guest it would fold the book. Susan finally to be in an outdoor castle special after 7 years as CW! Wow!
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I "registered my interest" (enthusiastically) via email the day the show was announced.
Any thoughts on how the complimentary ticket process is going to work?
Is it like a random draw? Or do all the people who entered have to go through subsequent contest or application process to determine who gets to actually go. "I've been a fan since 2005 and have been to over 200 shows..." yeah, I can't beat that. If it comes down to "you changed my life" stories, I have one, but it's not even close to the best story they're going to hear. Maybe there will be a knowledge-testing contest to narrow the field down if there's too many (hopefully it's something I can actually answer because my memory sucks and if it's something people can just Google, it's not much of a contest).
My guess is there will be between 500-2000 seats, some of which are reserved.
So if it's a random draw and they only get 2000 people who are legitimately interested, the odds are very good (probably around 50%, assuming tickets are awarded in pairs). If they get closer to 20,000 people who are interested, then the odds are < 0.5%.
I'm curious about the date(s) too (I asked as well in my email), since I'm on-call at work for a huge chunk of September. Those on-call rotations are brutal and are difficult to trade. I might have to trade 2-1 and 3-1 as an incentive for anyone to take it. If any other on-call weeks later in the year conflict with other yet-to-be-announced shows this year (Chloe, CaraNua, The Best of Christmas tour, Lisa Kelly's show, etc.), that would get really bad, really fast. That combined with how stressful a process it is for me to plan trips, the sooner we know one way or another, the better.
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Tom the other outdoor shows were limited to 1000 seats and this one is little different as they are going to do invite only for some of the seats for family and friends of CW and then the rest will be done as a draw like in the past im sure. Hope you and Tracie get lucky
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I'm hoping to hear soon - we already have our flights for the Ireland trip booked, but are absolutely willing to spend extra to adjust the flight dates if needed. We also will be with a tour company on a planned itinerary, but we don't care where we're meant to be on concert day, we can get there and rejoin our group the next day! Just need to know soon for planning!
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Tom the other outdoor shows were limited to 1000 seats and this one is little different as they are going to do invite only for some of the seats for family and friends of CW and then the rest will be done as a draw like in the past im sure. Hope you and Tracie get lucky
Hmm. Those odds are not good. I've got to imagine they'll get at least 5000 people registering interest, less than 500 draws (assuming tickets are in pairs) for 5000+ registrations. < 10% chance best case. Yep. We're definitely going to need some of that luck.
I just hope the people that actually get drawn want it really, really badly like we do.
I really wish they'd sell a group of tickets too. Oh, you want $1500 per seat? If it allows me to see Celtic Woman record a DVD at a castle, sure, I'd find a way to make it work. It would still be better than being at the mercy of a cold-hearted draw. And it would still probably be cheaper than Toronto Maple Leaf playoff tickets, so ... yeah.
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Something else has been bugging me about this draw process:
If it's based on email without criteria (ie. providing your mailing address or some unique and valid information), what's to stop someone from creating like 5000 email accounts and entering once with each account?
I'm entering once in the spirit of fairness, but this does seem like a pretty glaring hole in the process ... unless there's a second part to this that weeds out fake accounts, like everyone that emails in has to fill out a form with their home address, then the draw is done based on that second stage.
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The show is to be recorded on September 13-14, 2018!
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Gregg and I have confirmation that we're attending!! So excited!!
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Yea got my invitation this morning too. Asked for a ticket on the 13th,
I would like to have stayed for the 14th show but had to make sure I could get back in time for Elton John in Buffalo on the 15th.
Be interested to know how many fans are going to make it over. Perhaps we should try and organise a mass breakfast on the 13th for all N. American fans! Failing that, a few beers in a local pub perhaps after the recording.
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glad you get to go enjoy some of the recordings didn't get done till after midnight depends on how many retakes they do
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I got my confirmation this morning for both shows (Sept 13 and 14)!
I woke up to the good news and almost couldn't get out of bed I was shaking from excitement so much. I'm pretty sure I was very unproductive at work today.
I may have to bail on one of the shows between now and then depending on how other plans work and on what my guest's schedule allows. But for now, I'm confirmed for both. If I have to choose, I'll be going to the one of the 14th (it will probably be a cleaner show the second time around, although the impact of a rain delay would also be greater).
Depends if I can actually get a hotel in Wexford too (bites fingernails nervously).
Yes, I think doing a fan gathering would be great! Tentatively, I think Sept 13 afternoon before the show or after the show would work best for me, depending on what time the show is.
Because I'm planning to do other things in Ireland besides the CW show, there's not much around Wexford, and and due to the possibility of weather delays, this is going to be a crazy-complicated trip to plan, especially the hotel booking.
We'll see how it goes when my mind is clear enough to think properly.
Wooo!!!!!!!
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A fan gathering sounds great! Gregg and I will be going to the show on the 14th. We will already be in Ireland with a tour company and our tour is scheduled to end on the 13th. We'll be in Belfast that day. Our tentative plan then is to take a train from Belfast to Wexford on the 13th, attend the concert on the 14th, take a train to Dublin on the 15th, and fly home on the 16th. This adds two days to our trip, we would have been flying home on the 14th. This works so well - I think it's much easier than having it be somewhere in the middle of our tour. Now we just leave our group one day early. We have already booked a hotel in Wexford for the 13th and 14th. I'm going to spend some time tonight researching the trains.
I can't believe this is actually happening!! It's so wild to think that we booked this trip nearly two years ago and the dates aligned so that we can see our favorite ladies film a concert DVD at a castle. This is the perfect end for our ten year anniversary trip!!
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Hi all,
Just checking, what did the email say in your confirmation. I got an email reply saying that they are willing to hold tickets for me should I attend but didn’t confirm dates.
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Wow, this is huge!
I just found out about it today on Twitter (thanks, CWazyTom!) I'm happy for you guys who already got accepted to attend. I don't know if they still have spots left. When I emailed them this morning, the automated reply, which gives me some hope, was:
Thank you for registering your interest in the new Celtic Woman Special taking place in Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford September 13th and 14th 2018.
There is a limited amount of complimentary seating available. Please note for those travelling from outside of Ireland, proof of travel may be required. We will be in touch with you in due course.
Best wishes
Celtic Woman Team
rfcw: Lisa Lambe is busy performing in the play "Jimmy's Hall" in Galway on the days of the Johnstown Castle concert (link (http://www.lisalambe.ie/event/jimmys-hall-galway/)). I heard on Twitter that she sings a solo (The Parting Glass) in the play. She's performing it in different cities in Ireland throughout July and September, check out her schedule (http://www.lisalambe.ie/tour/).
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The first email we got was saying thanks for your interest, the show will film on September 13th and 14th and that they would hold either date for us. My husband and I emailed back right away and said we would like the 14th. We got a response back pretty quickly confirming that they had put our names down for that date. They took our phone numbers as well and said we'll get more detailed info closer to show date. We had a few emails back and forth with a lady named Katie who works for them. At one point she said she was working her way through hundreds of requests. Hope you guys can still get in! And welcome to the forum!
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Hi all,
Just checking, what did the email say in your confirmation. I got an email reply saying that they are willing to hold tickets for me should I attend but didn’t confirm dates.
Besides the automatic reply, there's a person replying to people who get drawn. The dates are Sept 13-14, although the ever-present danger with an outdoor show in Ireland is of course the weather. They told me there was a contingency plan for weather, but I wasn't given specifics yet.
I believe you can request 2 tickets if you have a guest.
If you haven't already, you should reply with the date(s) you want to reserve and the number of tickets. They'll probably acknowledge they have reserved those for you, then will follow up closer to the date to request proof of travel (if you're coming from outside of Ireland) and guest list (names and contact phone numbers, I think). They'll clarify when it's time.
They'll also clarify the times of the shows closer to the big days.
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Wow, this is huge!
I just found out about it today on Twitter (thanks, CWazyTom!) I'm happy for you guys who already got accepted to attend. I don't know if they still have spots left. When I emailed them this morning, the automated reply, which gives me some hope, was:
Thank you for registering your interest in the new Celtic Woman Special taking place in Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford September 13th and 14th 2018.
There is a limited amount of complimentary seating available. Please note for those travelling from outside of Ireland, proof of travel may be required. We will be in touch with you in due course.
Best wishes
Celtic Woman Team
rfcw: Lisa Lambe is busy performing in the play "Jimmy's Hall" in Galway on the days of the Johnstown Castle concert (link (http://www.lisalambe.ie/event/jimmys-hall-galway/)). I heard on Twitter that she sings a solo (The Parting Glass) in the play. She's performing it in different cities in Ireland throughout July and September, check out her schedule (http://www.lisalambe.ie/tour/).
I did. She's performing in Galway when I'm in Ireland, but I doubt I'll be making it to Galway this particular trip. I would have to sacrifice one of the two Johnstown Castle shows to do it and although I love, love, LOVE Lisa Lambe, I really want to see both shows of the DVD recording. It's an experience I will likely never have again.
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Looks like I'll probably be able to see Lisa Lambe after all, as Jimmy's Hall is running for a short time in Dublin for the first few days while I'm there!
https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/jimmys-hall/
26 July – 8 September On the Abbey Stage (Dublin) except for:
* 14 – 21 July at the Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick
* 11 – 15 September at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway
* 18 – 22 September at the Cork Opera House, Cork
OMG, this trip is going to be amazing! Now I just have to talk my non-CW-fan friend into making a 20-30 minute "scenic" detour out of Dublin to the middle of nowhere where Curious Monkey is located and I'll be all set!
So most likely will be Lisa Lambe and Edel Murphy (Riverdance) in Dublin on consecutive nights. Woohoo!!!
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Oh wow, that's so awesome Tom!!
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It took 8 days but someone from Celtic Woman wrote back to me and said I can attend!
I considered seeing Lisa Lambe in Galway on September 15th but it seemed better to just get to Dublin a few days early and catch her play on September 8th. That way, I don't have to do quite so much travelling (I'm scared of driving a mirror image car and will limit myself to other forms of transportation ;)). After seeing the play, I'll kill some time over the next four days. Slane Castle and Powerscourt House are really close to Dublin so I might try to get tours there. I'll be sure to get to Wexford by September 12th and then probably leave on September 15th.
Tracie and CWazyTom: I'd be interested to attend the tentative fan gathering in Wexford you guys were talking about. ;D
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CWazyTom: Thanks for the tip about Edel Murphy and Riverdance! I remember Riverdance from the 90s and didn't realize they were still doing shows. I just got my tickets, so I too will be seeing Lisa Lambe and Riverdance on two consecutive days.
What is the Curious Monkey you're talking about? A coffee company on the outskirts of Dublin?
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Yeah, Curious Monkey Coffee Co in Dún Laoghaire, Dublin is Caraí McMahon's business (Eabha's brother).
It was nominated for best Cafe/Teashop in Ireland in 2016, just one year after they opened.
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Yay, I'm glad you get to come too David! Have fun seeing Lisa Lambe and Riverdance too! I'm in for a fan gathering!
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Hi all,
Well it took a long while and a lot of stressful waiting but I just got an email confirmation that I have a ticket to both nights
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Yay, that's awesome!!
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This informational page about the Johnstown Castle concert has been added to the Celtic Woman website:
https://celticwoman.wufoo.com/forms/mm8dv5w0kfcio9/
The doors will open at 7:00 each night, the show will start at 8:00 and will run until approximately 11:00.
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Everybody going to Johnstown Castle, how cool is this that we get to be in the first audiences to see Megan!?
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Everybody going to Johnstown Castle, how cool is this that we get to be in the first audiences to see Megan!?
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Only four more weeks to wait!!!
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Everybody going to Johnstown Castle, how cool is this that we get to be in the first audiences to see Megan!?
It's going to be Meganificent!
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Meganificent - love it!
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Susan is not travelling to Wexford for the rehearsal, but will be in the audience on Friday.
Anto will be in the show though.
Sue's Instagram post from Sept 12, 2018:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnnl8awnZ8M/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1j5m6nhhjhtdn (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnnl8awnZ8M/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1j5m6nhhjhtdn)
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She'll be in the audience on Friday!
Also Carl posted a story on instagram that shows the seating. Looks like a great setup for everybody to be able to see really well with tiered seating.
I can't contain my excitement!!
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I'd say that is a very encouraging sign for her returning at some point. Has a former Celtic Woman ever attended a Celtic Woman DVD recording as an audience member?
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can't say I remember any of them going but then they didn't have a better half in the show either so im sure she is there to watch the show and Antos
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Anyone seen the picture posted in FB? The stage looks like the same design used for Celtic Thunder MYTHOLOGY.
https://www.facebook.com/117800522837/posts/10156670677862838/
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Yes I saw the picture of the stage - looks great! The seating looks like a great setup too from instagram stories. And I'm thinking there's not much to be read into Susan attending since her husband and good friends are in the show. Would be really cool to see her in the audience tomorrow!
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I need to go to sleep, but just had to say that Ancient Land is absolutely phenomenal!! Tons of new songs and they're all incredible!! Night 2 tomorrow!!
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Ancient Land was really good!
It was a mix of new songs, different arrangements of classics, and previously unrecorded songs from the Homecoming Tour.
More info in the morning.
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Here’s another gorgeous pic from their FB Page
https://www.facebook.com/celticwoman/photos/a.164250352837/10156673425472838/?type=3
I can’t wait for the release!!