Celtic Concert and Tea Report!

If you weren't able to be at the Richland Area Community Center in person on December 28, we're sorry to tell you that you missed one of the most delightful afternoons in a long time. PAF's Celtic Concert and Tea was a great success. Even the weather cooperated to let more than 85 people attend the concert by Erica Holcomb, who played the Scottish harp and a guitar and sang songs both traditional and original.

Afterwards, Jeri Holcomb of Tudor House Tea served an amazing array of treats and delicious teas on fine china and white tablecloths. It was quite a day. Jeri had also donated a beautiful tea gift basket, which was raffled, and copies of Erica's two CDs were sold. Huge thanks to all the Holcombs for sharing their musical and culinary gifts, and for doing all the hard work for the event. Rick Holcomb designed and printed the beautiful posters and tickets, so many thanks to him, too.

Between ticket sales and raffle tickets, the event raised just over $1,000 for the Performing Arts Foundation. That will go a long way towards arts education projects in our schools. Thank you to everyone who attended and supported PAF!

Thanks, too, to all the volunteers who helped it to happen. Robin and Sarah Nott, Pat, Louise and Emily Hanavan, Jan and Lisa Watson, Murray Cooper, and of course the Holcombs all pitched in. Even some of the folks who attended as guests wound up lending a hand. Thank you! And we are grateful to the Richland Area Community Center for hosting the event--and for hosting PAF's monthly meetings all year long.

One last note, speaking of PAF's monthly meetings: Our longtime regular meeting day has been changed. The new meeting time for PAF will be 6:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of the month, starting this month. So our next meeting is not this week but will instead be on Tuesday, January 13, at 6:30 p.m. at the Richland Area Community Center. See you then!

PAF meeting November 13--and a heads-up!

The Performing Arts Foundation has much to discuss at its regular meeting, Thursday, November 13, at 6:30 p.m. at the Richland Area Community Center, 9400 East CD Avenue. Such as . . . new marching band uniforms, new uniforms for the high school choir, the December newsletter (please send items along asap to PerformingArtsFoundation@gmail.com) and--here's your heads-up--arrangements for a fabulous Celtic concert and tea during the holidays.

Mark your calendar now for Sunday, December 28, at 2 p.m. when, at the Richland Area Community Center, our own Erica Holcomb will give a concert of traditional Celtic and original music. Erica now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she has built a reputation as a singer and harpist, and we're very fortunate that she will be home during the holidays and willing to do a benefit show for PAF. Check her latest CD, Birds, Ghosts, and Lifeboats, on CDbaby. A festive tea will be served that afternoon by Tudor House Tea, and ticket sales (price to be set at our PAF meeting!) will benefit the Performing Arts Foundation.

Hope to see you at Thursday's meeting . . . and please let us know if you have items for the newsletter or can help with the fun on December 28!