Hi Joe, A warm welcome to the forum and congratulations on acquiring your new Avalon Carl Verheyen guitar. I don't possess one of these fine guitars myself, but I know several players who have one and the feedback I get from them from time to time is how great a gigging guitar it is.
The main reason for my input here however, is to point you to a great on-line resource if you're interested in learning celtic fingerstyle - our main clinician in Ireland is a fine fingerstyle player called Darren Moan. Darren runs an on-line guitar school which you will find here:
http://www.trinityguitarschool.com/