By Chris Shannon – Copyright © 2005 Cape Breton Post Like it began, the Celtic Colours International Festival went out with fiddles ablazin’ on both sides of the island Saturday night. Gaelic singing, guitar playing and toe-tapping beats at both the Sydney Marine Terminal and Mabou’s Strathspey Place concluded the nine-day festival that celebrates the [...]
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By SUE WILSON – The Scotsman SAVOY THEATRE, CAPE BRETON **** A MAJOR highlight of this year’s Celtic Colours programme was the premiere of Full Circle, a hands-across-the-ocean collaboration composed and created by Phil Cunningham for the Cape Breton Chamber Orchestra, plus local and Scottish soloists. The piece comprised a mix of newly-written Cunningham originals [...]
From Russia with love
By Chris Connors – The Cape Breton Post As information officer for the Celtic Colours International Festival, Dave Mahalik is used to handling media requests by journalists from across the globe. In each of the past nine years, people from various parts Canada, Scotland, the U.S. and Australia have been among the 100 or so [...]
Drive and determination
By Chris Connors – The Cape Breton Post Working nine straight 15-hour days without pay would probably take its toll on most people, but not the volunteer drivers who help make the Celtic Colours International Festival a success. As if transporting 100 musicians and loads of equipment to venues in communities across the island wasn’t [...]
The Colour$ of money
By Chris Connors – The Cape Breton Post Fiddles and pipes aren’t the only sounds that are ringing out across Cape Breton this week as Celtic Colours International Festival hits its stride. Listen carefully and you can almost hear the hum of cash registers and swipes of credit cards as thousands of tourists gather to [...]
Gaelic language may be down, but it’s not out
By Chris Connors – The Cape Breton Post For the past 20 years, Jeff MacDonald has been among the few dedicated Gaelic educators trying desperately to keep a dying language alive. But all too often, during a night class or one-hour weekly visit to a local high school, the lessons would hit a brick wall [...]
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