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World Music Series: Unexpectedly Celtic with RAKISH

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Saturday, November 14, 2026, 3:00–4:00 PM

New Canaan Library — Jim & Dede Bartlett Auditorium + Community Room + Kend Kitchen

151 Main Street, New Canaan, CT 06840Directions

For: Adults; MultigenerationalHost: New Canaan LibraryAdmission: Free; registration requiredBefore you go: Registration required via the New Canaan Library event page; closes November 14, 2026 at 3:00 PMOfficial details

Award-winning fiddle/banjo and guitar duo Rakish brings Celtic music like you've never heard it before to New Canaan Library's World Music Series. Drawing on the deep well of tradition, Maura Shawn Scanlin, a two-time U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion and Glenfiddich Fiddle Competition winner who grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, and guitarist Conor Hearn, raised in the Irish music communities of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, explore Scottish and Irish Celtic composition alongside classical chamber music and improvisational styles. Free; registration required.