Celtic Angels bring Irish music and dance to Buddy Holly Hall Feb. 22

The touring Irish show plays the 2,297-seat Helen DeVitt Jones Theater on a Monday night in February, part of a winter run through the West and Midwest.

Lubbock is about three weeks short of St. Patrick's Day on February 22, but the Irish music arrives early this year, and it lands in the biggest room at Buddy Holly Hall.

Celtic Angels play the Helen DeVitt Jones Theater at The Buddy Holly Hall on Monday, February 22, 2027, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are through Buddy Holly Hall, and the theater seats 2,297. The date was announced October 26.

Celtic Angels, also billed as Celtic Angels Ireland, is a touring Irish music and dance production. Venue listings describe a program of more than 30 traditional and contemporary Irish tunes performed fully live by the Trinity Ensemble, the Celtic Angels and the Celtic Knights Dancers. That fully live point matters for a hall this size: the music is played on stage, not run from a track.

The Lubbock show is one stop on a busy winter run. Colorado Mesa University's box office lists the show in Grand Junction on February 28, the Macomb Center in Michigan has it on its 2026–2027 season in March, and Ohio University has it on its main series. Earlier tours brought the show to Texas stages like Blinn College in 2025.

The venue is the other reason to go. The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences opened in January 2021, according to Wikipedia, with a set of limited-capacity, socially distanced performances to mark the opening, as Auditoria reported. Its main room, the 2,297-seat Helen DeVitt Jones Theater, is named for the late local philanthropist and arts champion, and the building's smaller 415-seat Crickets Theater is named for Buddy Holly's band, per Venues Now. Architecture firm Diamond Schmitt designed the hall, Canadian Architect reported.

The music is played on stage, not run from a track.

A big theater suits a show built on a live ensemble and a dance line, and a purpose-built hall is the right place to hear it.

When to get tickets: they are available now through the hall's site. With more than three months between this article and the show there is time to plan, but in a room this size the better seats go to the people who plan first.

If your household's Irish music listening usually waits for March, this gets you there a few weeks early.

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