A recent Highland Dance performance.

The St. Andrews Highland Dancers (SAHDVT) will host the 3rd annual Celtic Winter Gathering (CWG) in Shelburne at the All Souls Interfaith Gathering on Saturday, Jan. 14. CWG organizers Heather Morris and Doug Webster have planned a Highland Dance competition starting at 10 a.m. through 3 p.m. Workshops in drumming and Cape Breton Step dance will occur during the day. There will be an evening performance starting at 7 p.m.  Food, tea, coffee and music will be available throughout the day.

The evening performance includes music by area musicians including fiddler Joanne Garton and bagpipers Tom Kirkpatrick and Doug Webster and highlight dancers from the Sim School of Highland Dance out of Embro, Ontario, Stirling Highland Dance Company of New England, Braemar Dancers from Albany, N.Y., Montreal Highland Dancers, and Vermont's Heather Morris School of Dance.  Step dancer Jen Schoonover will lead participants in a Cape Breton Square Set to finish out the evening.  

For more information visit www.celticheather.com or email Heather Morris of the Heather Morris School of Dance at celtic.heather@gmail.com. Tickets to the evening performance are available through FlynnTix for a fee of $13.50 per adult; $7.25 per student.  Call 863-5966 or visit www.flynntix.org or at the door.