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Valleyfest

1:00 p.m. Floating Crowbar w Irish Dancers

With Morgan Andersen on the fiddle, James Hunter on the flute, Rick Rubin on guitar and Don Thomsen on banjo, the men of Floating Crowbar bring a new sound to the table. Since 2004 the Crowbars have been making music and sharing their talents with the world.

Fall Dance and Music Weekend

  • The Stringrays, with Rodney Miller, Max Newman, and Stuart Kenney.
  • Lisa Greenleaf, caller
  • Floating Crowbar, with Don Thomsen, James Hunter, Rick Rubin and Morgan Andersen.
  • Maldon Meehan, teaching Irish dancing

Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel, Directed by Jack Delehanty

Floating Crowbar will be playing live during every performance.

Friday-Saturday, January 31 & February 1, 2020 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, February 2, 2020 @ 2pm
Friday-Saturday, February 7 & 8, 2020 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, February 9, 2020 @ 2pm

Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center – Mainstage, Gonzaga University

Brian Friel’s masterpiece and multi- award winning play, Dancing At Lughnasa, is considered by many to be one of our finest examples of Irish Theater. Perhaps it is because it so perfectly embodies the essence of the Irish soul and, at the same time, in a truly powerful way, reveals to us a universal hope in the future. It is often referred to as the greatest memory play since The Glass Menagerie. We travel with Michael as his memory takes us back to 1936 County Donegal where his mother and her four sisters struggle to balance a life of heartache and loss with moments of joy and hope. It is a play about women, strong, independent women yet, Like all great theater, Dancing At Lughnasa carries all of us aloft with music and dance and characters to a universal place where longings and loss are buoyed by simple joys and hope for the future.