Familiar holiday tunes are given new energy, played on bagpipes, drum, harp, fiddle, brass, and organ, in the 18th annual Pipes of Christmas concerts offering a traditional Celtic interpretation of the holidays. Featured musicians include James Robinson from the film Braveheart, New England fiddle champion Paul Woodiel, Riverdance uillean piper and flutist Christopher Layer, Gaelic Mod champion harpist Jennifer Port of Golspie, Scotland, and the Pipe Major Kevin Ray Blandford Memorial Pipe Band from Redlands, California.