Overwhelming community response has led the Celtic Colours Festival Society to approve an increase in venues for the upcoming festival. Each year the Board of the Society advertises for expressions of interest from community groups who wish to host a Celtic Colours Event. This year twelve new organizations applied. Eight were accepted. The number of [...]
Queen of the Highlands Newsletter – issue 7
Spring has sprung in Cape Breton – along with a snow storm! Not to worry. Soon it will be hot beach days and before we know it Celtic Colours will be seen and heard all over the Island. Joella attended the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow in January. Many thanks to all our friends there [...]
Review: The Hand That Rocks the Bow
By Tom Knapp Rambles.net – a cultural arts magazine The skies were a hodgepodge of reds and blues and golds, with dazzling, threatening-looking clouds scattered in strangely beautiful patterns. Well, it was strange to my admittedly landlubbing central Pennsylvania eyes; no doubt it was nothing unusual to those better acquainted with the rugged coastal environment [...]
Review: Gala Opening Concert
By Tom Knapp Rambles.net a cultural arts magazine Opening ceremonies often begin with speeches. Organizers, public officials and everyone else who can get their moments in the spotlight will make their remarks, welcomes and thanks, often for mind-bendingly long periods, while the audience fidgets and waits for the show to begin. Organizers of Celtic Colours [...]
Review: Gaelic Roots
By Tom Knapp Rambles.net – a cultural arts magazine After so grand an opening night, music fans attending the Celtic Colours festival eagerly approached the first night of regular festival performances, challenged only by the task of choosing which show, scattered across Cape Breton Island in various local venues, to attend. My travels took me [...]
People of all backgrounds attracted to festival
By Laurel Munroe – Cape Breton Post ST. ANN’S – One of the magic things about the Celtic Colours festival is that it brings people from different cultural backgrounds together – both on stage and off. Take George Seto and Ross Smith: a Cape Breton native of Asian-Canadian heritage and an American with Irish-Scottish family [...]
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