The M&G's are generally not worth my money any more.  They are way too rushed.  You could argue some of it was COVID.    You just don't get the connection you got years ago.  Last year I went to Lisa Kelly's Masterclass in December.  She knew me when I walked in.

My PBS released the unsold tickets to the general public. I can see I paid about $65 over face value essentially for the M&G. That's right on the edge of is it worth it or not. You just have to consider it a donation to PBS, as many have said before this thread.

At sports conventions, you can easily spend $100-$300 for an autograph ticket. Rushed, no photos, and sometimes the player won't even acknowledge you (although that's never happened to me). 30 seconds to sign your item and say one thing.

Ticketmaster lists a dateless show in Albany NY at the Palace Theatre under the title Echoes of Ireland.
Is that going to be the next album/tour/possibly DVD?? Is that a title that's been seen before??
Anyone know anything/have any thoughts???

@GlenS
Sorry to hear about the M&G. Starting late doesn't help when they're already under a time crunch. I just got my PBS package, and they said they will try to have time for autographs but limited by time, venue, mgmt, etc.

Well I can tell you what I know Yes they have some canned music the Piano player controls all that with the extra keyboard on top of his piano and the Girls hear a click track in their ears or tempo track so songs that have sounds of Brass instruments and alike that is canned music along with the taps of the men dancing the floor is not a sound floor so there tap sounds are canned if it were not canned you would hear nothing as they dance on a rubber mats on the stage floor so the girls and guys while dancing don't slip and fall on the stage floors. No you don't have to shut up now by all means ask any question you have by us answering your questions other people may learn some more about Celtic Woman from the answers we give I have been a fan for about 18 years and have met all the girls but 2

I have to agree with you there was way to much stage smoke years past they placed small fans across the front of the stage to blow it around but now they replaced the fans with small speakers, and they were way way to loud and at times sounded like they were being over driven. I also thought the stage was very lack luster they could have had there video screen in the background and used out photos and short video's instead of the star net background. I also thought the song choices were not the best. Also, the number of songs was kind of short the shows used to run 2 1/2 hours our show was just 2 hours long even with the break. The venue I was at the floor seats cost $175.00 per seat to me that's a little high for a short show. I talked to Mairead after the show and I talked to her about some of these things and she told me I was not the first person to bring the issues up. I also had M&G tickets and there were only 5 pairs sold so 10 people and the M&G started 25 mins late so in turn there was no signing of anything at the M&G all you got was a photo. I did go last and got to talk with the girls and you could just see it in Seths face as he was getting mad I was taking so long but I kept talking to the girls and while walking away with Mairead she asked me how I was doing with my health. So in short the M&G was the same as always shorth and to the point but I did love the Girls they did nothing wrong but then again they always look and sound Great.