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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE - JUNE 27, 2006
10th Celtic Colours International
Festival features favourites from past nine years
(Sydney,
N.S.) The award-winning Celtic Colours International
Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary with a lineup that features some audience favourites from the past nine years. Artists from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Denmark, Spain, New Zealand, England, USA, and the rest of Canada will join some of Cape Breton's finest singers, players, dancers and
tradition bearers in a celebration of North America's only
living Celtic culture, October 6-14.
Galician
piper Carlos Núñez, Scottish favourites David Milligan and
Corrina Hewat of Bachué and accordionist extraordinaire Phil
Cunningham with his long-time pal, fiddler Aly Bain, Irish
Gaelic singers Nuala Kennedy and Brian ÓhEadhra, Danish duos
Haugaard & Høirup and Karen & Helene, Welsh quartet Crasdant
and winners of the Best Band at the 2006 BBC Folk Awards
Flook, are only a few of the artists returning to the
Festival this year from overseas. The fantastic fiddle
guitar duo of Liz Carroll and John Doyle, Irish-born singer
Michael Black, and Scottish Baroque trio Ferintosh will be
making the journey from USA, while Newfoundland's A Crowd of
Bold
Sharemen, British Columbia's Daniel Lapp, and Prince Edward
Island singer-songwriter Lennie Gallant represent Canada's
coasts and islands. Natalie MacMaster, Buddy MacMaster,
Barra MacNeils, Rita MacNeil, Raylene Rankin, Beòlach and
Gordie Sampson are some of the familiar Cape Breton names
performing at the Festival this year.
The 10th
anniversary edition of Celtic Colours International Festival
gets underway October 6 at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre
Arena with a concert featuring Natalie MacMaster, Carlos
Núñez, New Zealand singer Hayley Westenra and American banjo
legend Béla Fleck. A total of 40 concerts and more than 100
workshops will take place during the nine days of the
Festival including a special collaboration of Artists in
Residence Mary Jane Lamond and Scottish Gaelic Singer
Mairi MacInnes, tributes to Cape Breton fiddlers Carl
MacKenzie and Dr. Winnie Chafe, and a reprise of 2004's hit,
The Unusual Suspects of Celtic Colours. Other familiar
concerts include Bards and Ballads featuring the songs and
the stories behind them; Women of Song showcasing an
assembly of women singers from Cape Breton, Scotland, and
Denmark; Close to the Floor, a concert focusing on the dance
tradition in Cape Breton; The Original Guitar Summit, with
J.P. Cormier, Dave MacIsaac, Scott Macmillan, Gordie Sampson
and John
Doyle; and concerts dedicated to Cape Breton fiddling and
piping.
Since its
first year in 1997, the Celtic Colours International
Festival has extended the tourism season by a little over a
week and had an economic impact of more than $43 million on
the Cape Breton economy. The internationally recognized
event attracted visitors from 27 countries last year and has
been named East Coast Music Awards Event of the Year (2005,
2006); and was awarded the Tourism Industry Association of
Nova Scotia's Golden Hospitality Award (2005) and the
Crystal Award for Events and Conferences (2002); and
recognized as
Attractions Canada's Top Cultural Event and the American Bus
Associations Top Event in Canada (2001).
The Celtic
Colours International Festival schedule is available at
www.celtic-colours.com. Tickets go on sale July 10 and
can be purchased by phone toll free at 1-888-355-7744,
locally at 567-3000 or online at the Festival website. For
Festival information, phone 562-6700 locally or
1-877-285-2321 toll free. For information about
accommodations phone
1-800-565-0000.
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Margaree (by Victor Maurice Faubert)
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