Exeter, NH (April 8, 2008) ¾On Sunday, April 13, 2008, 4 p.m., the Phillips Exeter Academy Music Department will host a Celtic Concert with pipers, harpers and dancers. The concert will be held in Phillips Church, located on the corner of Tan Lane and Front Street The concert is free and open to the public.

The program will include pipers and harpers from:  Phillips Exeter Academy, The New England Irish Harp Orchestra, Réagánta and St. Paul’s School; and dancers from the Murray School of Irish Dance and New Hampshire School of Scottish Arts. Music instructors Lezlie Webster will perform on bagpipes and Regina Delaney on Irish harp.

To learn more about Exeter's concert series, please check the Musical Events calendar page. For further information, please call Patrice Baker in the music department at (603) 777-3453, or visit its webpage for a complete list of upcoming events at http://www.exeter.edu/news_and_events/news_events_2990.aspx. You may also call the PEA public events line at (603) 777-4309. Directions to the Academy are available at (603) 777-4330.

Phillips Exeter Academy is a coeducational, independent preparatory school that was founded in 1781 and originated the system of instruction known as Harkness teaching in 1931. In the spirit of its charter to foster both goodness and knowledge, a Phillips Exeter Academy education will now be free to any admitted student whose family income is $75,000 orless. Committed to educational excellence, the school meets all demonstrated financial aid needs of its admitted students, making the Academy effectively “need blind.” The diverse student body comes from a wide variety of geographic, economic, racial and religious backgrounds approximately from 45 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and 23 foreign countries.