Spectacle Live will present Mairead Nesbitt on Sunday, March 9, 2025, at 7 pm at The JPT Film & Event Center in Newport, RI. Tickets are on sale Friday, July 12 at 10 am at JanePickens.com or by calling 1-800-657-8774.
A Grammy® and Emmy® nominated artist and composer, Máiréad Nesbitt has enchanted millions around the world as the featured Celtic violinist and founding member of the globetrotting music phenomenon Celtic Woman. Loyal fans of all ages, across geographical and cultural boundaries far beyond Ireland’s musical heritage, have adored her beguiling stage presence and versatile instrumental talents. She is the featured violin soloist on eleven Celtic Woman albums, all of which reached the number one slot on the Billboard World Music Chart.
Hailed as “A demon of a fiddle player” by the NY Times, Máiréad has emerged as one of Ireland’s most in-demand musicians. Her many awards include Irish Music Magazine’s Best Traditional and Multi-Instrumentalist Artist awards.
Máiréad began her professional career at sixteen with the prestigious RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Despite her young age, Máiréad’s playing was featured on the original soundtracks of the shows Riverdance, Lord of the Dance and Feet of Flames, resulting in touring the world as the lead fiddler with the latter two shows. She composed the original music score for the show Irish Dance Invasion, is featured on the Celtic Tenors’ Live in Concert DVD and is the featured violin soloist on the soundtracks of two Disney® films, Tinker Bell and Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure. Máiréad’s distinctive blend of traditional Irish and classical styles is featured in her works with such international artists as: Nigel Kennedy, Van Morrison, Sinéad O’Connor, Clannad, Emmylou Harris, Aslan, Chris De Burgh, Jimmy Webb, Sharon Shannon, Paul Brady, Frances Black, Cooney and Begley, Jimmy McCarthy and Dónal Lunny’s Coolfin.
Tickets for Mairead Nesbitt at the Jane Pickens Theater on Sunday, March 9, 2025, are $49 – $69 and go on sale Friday, July 12 at 10am at JanePickens.com or by calling 1-800-657-8774.