By Stephen Cooke – Halifax Herald IT IS A SPOT of personal shame that in the years that I’ve been covering the Nova Scotia music scene, I’ve yet to attend a performance in Glace Bay’s historic Savoy Theatre. This particular oversight was at long last corrected on Sunday afternoon with the Celtic Colours International Festival [...]
Visitors learn some Gaelic
By Laura Jean Grant – The Cape Breton Post Hailing from the U.S. Golden State and central Canada, two families got a taste of Gaelic culture, Saturday morning, during a Celtic Colours workshop designed as an introduction to one of the oldest languages in the world. Frank MacKenzie, a member of the local Gaelic Society, [...]
Celtic Colours kicks off with two concerts
By Nancy King – Cape Breton Post An nine-day celebration of music, dance and other expressions of Celtic culture were kicked off in spirited fashion across Cape Breton Friday. For the first time in the nine-year history of the Celtic Colours International Festival, it was launched with a pair of “coast to coast” opening night [...]
We’re Number One!
TORONTO, Ontario, August 23, 2005 – – A new study of who’s tops and who’s not in Canadian weather has now been completed by Environment Canada’s senior climatologist David Phillips. This study analyzes Canada’s 13 provinces and territories using over 30 years of weather data, ranking them in 70 weather categories. “Some of the results [...]
Chris Norman and the Boxwood Ensemble in CB
Chris Norman and the Boxwood Ensemble are featured at the Fortress of Louisbourg and at Highland Village as part of Musique Royale. Chris Norman, captures hearts and souls with his brilliant and imaginative flute playing. He and his colleagues from the Boxwood Festival in Lunenburg bring to life the energetic traditional music of Maritime Canada, [...]
Record Opening Sales for Celtic Colours
(Sydney, N.S.) It’s difficult to imagine the cool days of October while you’re in the midst of an East Coast heat wave. However, that’s exactly what fans of the Celtic Colours International Festival, which runs from October 7-15, have been doing for the last week. Now in its ninth year, the Festival has experienced record [...]
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