CEOL AGUS CRAIC: A Summer Full of Music Looms
By ERIN MULLAN
Ceol binn a bhaint as an saol! Get out your dancing shoes in July when various festivals and folk clubs bring multiple opportunities to catch Scotland's Shooglenifty, one of the greatest dance party bands on the planet.
Summer fun:
The Shoogs will be playing at St. James Hall in Vancouver on July 15, the Harrison Festival July 16, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival July 17-18 and the Salt Spring Festival of the Arts July 20. Come prepared to dance....The "Early Bird" ticket deadline for the Vancouver folk fest is June 19 and you can know buy tickets from the festival website at www.thefestival.bc.ca....Look for a roundup of summer festival highlights in next month's column.
Concert listings:
Pure Music Festival hosts Great Big Sea and Spirit of the West at the Plaza of Nations June 25………..The fine Quebec trio Genticorum will play Vancouver on July 3 at St. James Hall.........Crowd-pleaser and one-man band Rory McLeod plays St. James on July 20.......Martin Simpson comes to St. James July 30………..Cape Breton fiddler Kendra MacGillivray hits St. James on August 12………..Scotland’s Old Blind Dogs will be here September 9……Scottish-Canadian singer-storyteller David Francey plays Capilano College September 10…..September 24 sees Renbourn & McShee at St. James.......Lúnasa will return to Cap College on October 9....... Irish-American duo Liz Carroll & John Doyle come on November 5 November 10 Dougie MacLean will be at St. James......Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas will be in town December 10……….For the long-range forecast Baka Beyond are a probable next April as well as the Battlefield Band.
Local motion:
There’s Scottish Country Dancing at Stanley Park's Ceperley Playground (2nd Beach) on Monday evenings, 7:30-9:30pm, (weather permitting). June 14 to August 16, with feature nights: Pipe Band on June 21; and live music by the Vancouver Fiddle Orchestra on June 28. Info: 604-984-6998 or www.rscdsvancouver.org.......Apprentice fiddlers will have the chance to study with Irish-American fiddle great Liz Carroll be at Ceili 2004, an Irish Music and Dance Camp in Harrison Hot Springs August 15-20. Call (604) 290-4129 for more info.......The Wolf and Hound has traditional sessions on Monday and Wednesday nights. .......The Irish Heather hosts traditional Irish music sessions on Tuesday and Thursday nights
Recordings:
The inventive Canadian fiddle player Oliver Schroer has a lovely new album out: A Million Stars……………….At the end of this month Compass Records will release a DVD of Kate Rusby and band performing her entire catalogue of recording in concert entitled Live from Leeds………….Irish-American singer/guitarist John Doyle has produced a record of traditional songer by his father Sean Doyle called The Light And the Half-Light…………….Chicago-based Irish trad outfit Bohola, featuring accordion ace Jimmy Keane, have released their fourth album on Shanachie Records appropriately titled 4.
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