Creative Ireland in collaboration with Edwina Guckian & Áirc Damhsa Culture Club invited children all over the world to have a Céilí in the Kitchen on June 12th to celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg!
But what is a Céilí in the Kitchen? Years ago, family, friends and neighbours would visit your house and all gather together in the kitchen. They would bring their instruments, dancing shoes and some treats to share with everyone. Gathering around the fire they would tell their news to each other, play music, sing songs, share stories and poems and do lots of dancing, young and old all together. This would go on until the early hours of the morning and was always great fun. That’s how everyone learned the songs, steps, stories and tunes. They were passed on from one generation to the next at the céilí in the kitchen.
The past 2 years have been a huge success with over 1.6 million taking part worldwide.