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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, December 16, 2016 | 32 At far left, Oakville Celtic harpist Sharlene Wallace joins Harp & Holly's Terry Young (left) and Sandra Swannell (above) for a Christ mas concert Sunday (Dec. 18). | submitted photos Oakville's Sharlene W allace joins Harp & Holly for Christmas concert Sunday Oakville's own Sharlene Wallace is perform ing in a Christmas concert in town Sunday (Dec. 18) as part of a five-date Ontario tour with group Harp & Holly. The award-winning Celtic harpist joins violinist/violist Sandra Swannell and fingerstyle guitarist Terry Young at St. Jo h n 's Unit ed Church, 262 Randall St., at 7:30 p.m. Harp & Holly's m usic is a blend of Celtic, New Age and baroque sounds. Wallace is a winner of two international competitions, the Lyon and Healy Interna tional Pop and Jazz Lever Harp Com peti tion, held in Tucson, Ariz., and the Concours d'Improvisation de Rencontres Internation ales de Harpe Celtique, in Dinan, France. "I'm thrilled and excited to have been in vited to be part of this Christmas Harp & Holly tour," said Wallace, who is also the principal concert harpist with the Guelph, Oakville, and Kingston symphonies. Swannell and Young are both Canadian Folk Music Award winners and former m em bers of the group, Tanglefoot. The pair spends the regular season touring the U.S. and U.K. with its folk-jazz group, My Sweet Patootie. "Harp & Holly audiences will be treated to a family-friendly enchanted world of Christ m as reverie with stirring arrangements of an cient carols, jubilant seasonal favourites and poignant storytelling," stated a m edia release. Tickets cost $20, available at the door, while children aged 12 and younger are ad mitted for free. For more details, or advanced tickets, visit www.harpandholly.com. Kamila Celil holds a card with a photo of her husband Huseyin, who is a Burlington resident and currently serving a life sentence in a China prison on what family and support ers are calling "trumped-up terrorism charges." Kamila was at a recent Amnesty Oakville film screening of the National Film Board movie Uighurs: Prisoners o f the Absurd at Film. Ca Cinemas. The event was meant to help bring awareness to Huseyin's case and Amnesty Oakville's mission to free him. Huseyin was arrested on a fam ily trip to Uzbekistan in 2 0 0 6 and deported to China. A native Uighur from northwest China, he worked on human rights for his people in the 1990s before he fled the country. Amnesty Oakville has been working on his case since 2009. | Jayson Mills photo Beautyand the Beast pantoopensDec. 21 Burl-Oak Theatre Group (BOTG) wants to help local residents get into the spirit of the season with its production of Beauty and the Beast --A Holiday Pantomime. Opening next Wednesday (Dec. 21), the group's fourth annual pantomime is written by Chantal Forde and Tim Cadeny -- Forde di rects the production as well. "As we head into the holiday season, BurlOak Theatre Group is excited to present our fourth annual Holiday Pantomime. Our last three years proved to be very successful with more than 3,000 people in attendance," said Beth Poad and Hilary Speed, in a media release. The BOTG pair co-produce the holiday pan tomime. Burl-Oak Theatre Group is a not-for-profit or ganization currently in its 40th season. It stages three, full-length plays each season, in addition to its annual holiday pantomime for audiences in Oakville, Burlington, Mississauga and the surrounding area. The holiday pantomime -- previous shows include Cinderella, Peter Pan and Snow White-- are suitable for families and children aged three and older. "The spirit of Christmas has been lost and if the Beast and his eternally ornamental servants can't find it before this Christmas day:.. the curse will last forever," said the show's production team. "Come cheer on the brave and beautiful Belle as she fights to save her father, in spite of constantly being pursued by Gaston, the buff, buffoonish baddie. Hilarious sidekicks, magi- Luxury Vacation Sale Sanctuary at Grand Memories Santa Maria Luxury Bahia Principe Sian Ka An Riviera Maya, Mexico Rachelle Melnichuk (Belle) and Paul Wilson (Beast) - both of Oakville - star in the Burl-Oak Theatre Group's production of Beauty and the Beast --A Holiday Pantomime. | submitted photo Royalton Saint Lucia Resort & Spa St. Lucia, Saint Lucia p lu s Cayo Santa Maria, Cuba Royalton Punta Cana Resort & Casino Punta Cana, D.R. 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Tickets, which include a gift for every child, cost $27 and can be pur chased by calling 905-815-2021, on line at www.oakvillecentre.ca or by C o l o u r i\ i visit the Oakville Centre's box office d d ic t io ! \ Monday-Saturday between 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 518 Postridge Drive 905-257-7427 For more information on the show, colouraddicrion.com visit OakvillePantomime.com or BOTG.ca.