(Sydney, NS) The lineup for the 9th annual Celtic Colours International Festival was released Monday. The award-winning festival, which last year sold over 18,000 tickets to patrons in 25 countries, has expanded this year to 48 performances in communities all over Cape Breton Island from October 7-15. This year’s festival, for the first time, will [...]
Celtic Colours International Festival named Event of the Year
By Wes Stewart – Cape Breton Post Sydney, NS – The unsung heroes of the Atlantic Canadian music industry were honoured Friday with awards and testimonials at the 2005 East Coast Music Association industry awards show at the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre. Seasoned and up and coming Cape Bretoners were recognized in a number [...]
Reeling in Nova Scotia
Jim Gilchrist – The Scotsman IN THE LOUNGE OF A SMALL DISTILLERY a fling is in progress. As the visiting Lord Provost looks on, fiddlers and pipers are letting rip as a man in a kilt leaps into a frenetic step dance. Outside, the autumnal blaze of the wooded glen recedes into an all-permeating smirr. [...]
Music ablaze at Celtic Colours
By Earle Hitchner – The Irish Echo The autumn festival featured 300 performers in 44 concerts throughout Cape Breton Island CAPE BRETON ISLAND — The tourist brochures describe this island as “Nova Scotia’s masterpiece,” but those words hardly do it justice. I prefer the words of a young girl standing next to me as we [...]
The Unusual Suspects of Celtic Colours
(Sydney, N.S.) “I get a lot of calls, from people all over the world, asking me to recommend which concerts they should attend,” says Dave Mahalik, Information Officer for the Celtic Colours International Festival. “Of course, I tell these folks that every concert is a winner, that each one features a top-notch lineup, and that [...]
Three Celtic Colours concerts sold out
Three Celtic Colours concerts sold out; Six more getting close. (Sydney, NS) It seems that while the Summer was stuttering along here on Cape Breton Island and most of the population was in denial that the Summer months would ever end, Celtic music lovers from around the world were looking toward Autumn in anticipation of [...]
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