Well we can't believe it's already December, and Concerts for Christmas is well under way. Over the weekend we had more musical fun with packed out performances, and it all continues this week with Brian Fleming, Gabriel Akujobi, Solomon Ijigade and Gwenn Frin performing from tomorrow until Friday 5 December.

Brian has written his own blog to tell us what he's been up to over the past couple of weeks!

It's been all go for myself, Solomon, Gabriel and Gwenn for the past couple of weeks, getting in shape for our performances in The Ark. We've had to do a little extra practice too for our performance at the MAMA awards in the Abbey Theatre on Thursday 27 November. I thought it was very nice to have an award for mamas, as everybody has one and they're always very nice, but the others told me it has nothing whatever to do with mothers.

"It's about people who've made a significant contribution to multiculturalism in Ireland", Gwenn explained.

I'm not quite sure what that meant but it sounded very important, so I made a note to programme an extra practice.

Since our last rehearsal, Solomon has been back to Nigeria to visit Ife-Ife, a very important city from which Yoruba people believe all humans originated.

"It was so hot I could barely wear my shirt!" he said.

I asked him if the children there were looking forward to Santa coming.

"Well, not exactly," he said

"It's a bit different." Solomon and Gabriel explained;

"Firstly, he's called 'Father Christmas', not 'Santa' in Nigeria. Secondly, it's so hot there aren't really any chimneys on houses."

"So what does he do?" I asked

"Well, he actually visits the streets in the days before Christmas Day and the children come out and meet him there." Gabriel explained.

"So the children go to Santa instead?" I said

"Yes, but he's Father Christmas" said Solomon

"Does everybody speak Yoruba there?" Gabriel put in

"Actually, I speak Igbo," Gabrial explained, "Solomon speaks Yoruba and there's another very popular language in Nigeria called Hausa and 252 different dialects,".

I was beginning to feel a bit dizzy listening to all these new words and wondering were we going to get any practice done at all today.

"Hey, we could teach some new words to the children who come to the show," Gwenn suggested and finally we were back to our practicing at last.

After all, there's no time to lose with the show coming up this week and we all want it to be brilliant!

Come and join in with Brian, Gabriel, Solomon and Gwenn as they celebrate the coming together of cultures with music, singing and dancing all this week at The Ark.