The annual Caprock Celtic Christmas has become a favorite seasonal event on the South Plains. Drawing upon the skills and talents of campus and community, returning favorites and visiting guests, the Celtic Christmas raises funds for the endowed VMC Scholarship in Traditional Music at TTU. Singers, players, dancers, storytellers, and more gather to perform traditional Celtic repertoires of the session, including Scottish, Irish, Galician, English, and Breton dance; Gaelic-, Spanish-, and English-language traditional songs; instrumental dance tunes and slow airs. Participating ensembles and soloists have included the much-loved fear an tí (“man of the house”) Tom McGovern, Northern Irish vocalist Michael Black of the legendary Black Family, bouzouki virtuoso Roger Landes and multi-instrumentalist Chipper Thompson of Taos, NM; trad-Irish band Johnny Faa; the TTU Celtic Ensemble; Scottish pipers Patrick McLaurin and Tom Campbell; modern dance pieces from Genevieve Durham of the Department of Theatre and Dance; the High Plains Irish Dancers and McNamara Academy of Dance; and an Ulster mummers’ play. The event is previewed on KOHM’s Celtic Shores program and simul-cast live to listeners across the South Plains.