By Laurel Munroe – Cape Breton Post ST. ANN’S – Just over a decade ago, Liz Doherty knew next to nothing about the traditional music of Cape Breton Island. Now, the 31-year-old native of County Donegal, Ireland, is a leading authority on the subject – and she has the degree to prove it. Doherty posesses [...]

Greetings from Day Three… or is it Day Four? The leaves are changing colour right on cue for the start of the 2001 Celtic Colours International Festival. The first wave of artists has arrived as have festival organizers and record company representatives from Canada, the United States, Scotland and the Shetland Islands. And eleven shows [...]

By Dirk Van Susteren – New York Times THIRTY years ago the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation televised a documentary, “The Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler,” that struck a jarring note on that island off the Nova Scotia mainland. It warned that Cape Breton’s beloved music tradition was in trouble: the younger generation seemed to prefer the hard [...]