WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Park Service and the National Park Foundation announced that Jordin Sparks, Celtic Woman, Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau will perform at the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony 2009.

By Bob Karlovits Irish singer Darren Holden says the show by the High Kings gets down to the basics in Celtic entertainment. "It's the biggest Irish pub session in the world," he says about the brand of Celtic entertainment that encourages, shall we say, interaction.

By Al Rudis CELTIC WOMAN AND THE HIGH KINGS What: Celtic Woman is an ensemble of five Irish female singers and a female fiddler performing heavily arranged versions of Celtic folk songs and other songs in similar styles; the High Kings, a quartet of Irish male singers/musicians.

By Shellie Branco, The Bakersfield Californian May 8--Harpist orla Fallon credits her grandmother for cultivating her talent. She passed her gift of song to Fallon, who has gone on to star in the platinum-selling, Billboard-smashing worldwide sensation that is Celtic Woman.

By Ann Weber, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Apr. 9--Look up "soul music" and you're not likely to find "Danny Boy." Except in Orla Fallon's book. Irish music, declares the singer and harpist, "is like soul music.