CEOL AGUS CRAIC
Summer is Festival Music Season
By ERIN MULLAN
Ceol binn a bhaint as an saol! Our sweet brief summer looms and with it the festival season. There's heaps of great music to be enjoyed in the great outdoors.
Festival preview: What follows is Celtic content for some of the summer festivals. Get out there and get happy
The Harrison Festival of the Arts goes from July 7-15 and has Cape Breton's Beolach and Quebec's Les Tireux de Roches. www.harrisonfestival.com
Scottish singer Dougie MacLean returns to B.C. this summer to play Island Musicfest and the Vancouver Folk Music Festival in July
Also at the Vancouver folk fest (July 13-15) is brilliant fiddler Liz Carroll with Irish guitarist John Doyle. www.thefestival.bc.ca
At the Mission Folk Music Festival (July 27-29) you'll find Battlefield Band, The Bills, David Francey, Scottish accordion/pipe duo Angus Lyon & Ruaridh Campbell and recent Juno winners The McDades. www.missionfolkmusicfestival.ca
The Calgary Folk Music Festival runs July 26-29 and has the Battlefield Band, Cowboy Celtic, Great Big Sea and Beolach
You'll find more festival news here next month - watch this space.
Concert listings: Whiskey Hollow Bound is a feast of six B.C. string bands on June 17 at St. James, featuring The Breakmen, Plough, Mountain Bluebirds, Dyad, Viper Central and Redgrass
Bill Bourne brings his new band to St. James on July 12
English guitar master Martin Simpson returns in August
Grαda may be coming to Vancouver on August 21
Superb Irish group Dervish starts the next Folk & Roots Series at Capilano College in September
Cap College is also the venue for Scots fiddle ace Alasdair Fraser with cellist Natalie Haas on November 3.
Local motion: The summer Scottish Country "Dancing in the Park" runs Monday evenings (weather permitting) starting June 18. The dancing moves for this season to Queen Elizabeth Park and will be back in Stanley Park in the summer of 2008
For information about Scottish country dance groups and classes around the Lower Mainland call (604) 536-9481 or visit www.rscdsvancouver.org
For information on the Irish Set Dancing and Social Group call (604) 984-8261 or (604) 731-9513
The Jericho Folk Club has Tuesday night sessions and concerts at the Jericho Sailing Centre. Phone: (604) 222-4113 for more information
The Wolf and Hound has traditional sessions on Monday and Wednesday nights
The Irish Heather has an Irish traditional session on Thursday nights.
Recording news: Irish band Grαda have just released their third CD, Cloudy Day Navigation, on Compass Records
Also new on Compass is the second outing by Ireland's Beoga: Mischief featuring new addition Niamh Dunne on fiddle and vocals
Irish flute player Nuala Kennedy has a fine new disc named for her new band The New Shoes on Scotland's Greentrax label
Scotland's Julie Fowlis, who was here with Dochas a couple of years back, has released her second Cuilidh features her fiance Ιamon Doorley of Danu.
Questions, comments or complaints? Write me c/o The Celtic Connection, #452 - 4111 Hastings Street, Vancouver V5C 6T7, or e-mail: maura@telus.net. [Erin Mullan hosts the Celtic music radio show In the Claddagh Ring, Friday evenings from 6:30 to 8 PM on CFRO 102.7.]
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