The tumultuous upside-down, inside-out year of 2020 is finally grinding to a conclusion. Happily, it’s going to end with a much-loved tradition still intact, albeit in a slightly different form. “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn,” the holiday-themed variety show created and hosted by Brian O’Donovan, and usually presented live from multiple locations each year, is retitled as “A Virtual Christmas Celtic Sojourn” this time around.
The 2020 show will be pre-recorded, featuring O’Donovan hosting, telling a story or two, maybe reciting a poem, along with his Christmas Celtic Ensemble and a roster of guests, some, through technical wizardry, performing from other countries. It will be streamed, Dec. 15-20, with the show emanating from the stage of the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, and will have separate intros from O’Donovan each night, suggesting that the performance is coming from the usual different venues.