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JULY-AUGUST 2008
Rogue Folk Club
Celebrating 21 Years of the best Celtic & Roots!
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Wednesday, July 16, 8pm
NZ Maori meets Scots fiddle
Pacific Curls
Thursday, July 31, 8pm
Cello, fiddle, banjo & the glorious voice of Aoife O 'Donovan
Crooked Still
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Friday, August 15, 8pm
Irish traditional quintet makes Vancouver debut. Hot stuff!
Beoga
Saturday, August 16, 8pm
John Reischman brings his superb bluegrass combo
The Jaybirds
Friday, August 22, 8pm
The Jimi Hendrix of the Irish pipes, with singer / guitarist Tommy O 'Sullivan
Paddy Keenan
St James Hall, 3214 W.Wth
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Time for Dancing in the Park!
Ceol binn a bhaint as an saoll Do yourself a favour this summer and get yourself out to one of our fine summer music festivals. Great music in the great outdoors is damn good for the soul!
Concert listings: The Vancouver Folk Music Festival's new artistic director Linda Tanaka (July 18-20, www.thefestival.bc.ca) has assembled a fine lineup this year, featuring the first festival appearance of local heroes Spirit of the West, New Zealand trio Pacific Curls, Scots singer Maeve Mackinnon, bluegrass youngsters The Carrivick Sisters, Anglo-Scots trio Lau, Quebec's Les Chauffeurs & Pieds and the Pascale Picard Band, fiddle ace April Verch and local Punjabi-Celtic group Delhi 2 Dublin. Advance tickets available until July
16.......Pacific Curls will also play a Folk Fest/Rogue
Folk show on July 16 at St. James Hall as part of a double bill with a showcase of four Vancouver singer-songwriters.........Mission Folk Festival (July 25-27,
www.missionfolkmusicfestival.ca) has new Irish-American group Fingal and The West Coast Fiddlers,
francophone vocal group Chic Gamine......The Calgary
Music Festival (July 25-27, www.calgaryfolkfest.com) has Winnipeg's finest The Duhks, Lau, Welsh singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph, Quebec's Les Tireux d'Roches and classic alt-folk band The Men They
Couldn't Hang......Weekend passes to the Fdmonton
Folk Festival ( August 7-10 www.edmontonfolkfest.org) are already sold out but day and evening tickets are still available. The lineup includes former Clannad lead singer Moya Brennan, Yves Lambert et le Bebert Orchestra from Quebec, Spain's La Musgana, Dervish, The Duhks, Scottish-Canadian singer Maria Dunn, Irish trad band Teada, Irish singer Maura O'Connell, Scotland's Peatbog Faeries, former Malinky singer Karine Polwart, Martin Joseph and Swedish fiddlers Haugaard and Hoirup..........On the local concert front,
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look out for Crooked Still, featuring Aoife O'Donovan on vocals and Brittany Haas (sister of cellist Natalie Haas) on fiddle for their show at St. James on July
31........The terrific young Irish band
Beoga play St. James August 15 and Irish master piper Paddy Keenan is joined by guitarist and vocalist Tommy O'Sullivan for a gig there on August 22.
Local motion: Ceilidh dancing at Ceperley Park in Stanley Park runs every Monday night at 7:30 PM, weather permitting, until August
11........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, with Vancouver Celtic group Westwynds on July 15, local Celtic band Blackthorn on July 22 and singer-songwriter Joe Charron on July 29. Phone: (604) 222-
4113 for more information......The Wolf and Hound
has traditional sessions on Wednesday and Friday
nights......The Irish Heather has an Irish traditional
session on Thursday nights......Bring your instruments
and songs to the Friday night session at the Celtic Traditions store, starting at 8 PM.
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Recording news: Late August will see the release of a new disc from Irish-American super-group Solas on the Compass label called For Love and Laughter. •
Questions, comments or complaints? Write me c/o The Celtic Connection, #452 - 4111 Hastings Street, Burnaby, B.C. V5C 6T7, ore-mail: maura@telus.net. [Erin Mullan is one of the hosts of the Celtic music radio show In the Claddagh Ring, Friday evenings from 6:30 to 8 PM on CFR0 102.7.]
Mission Folk Music Festival Highlights Celtic Music
MISSION, BC - Celtic music has always been a highlight of the Mission Folk Music Festival, and the 2008 edition which runs from July 25-27 at Fraser River Heritage Park in Mission is no exception.
This year the festival welcomes three giants of traditional Irish music and one of the best of the current generation of great Gaelic singers.
Individually, James Keane, Randal Bays and Daithi Sproule conjure up some brilliant concert moments. Now performing together as Fingal, you know you're in for some fine tune-making!
Button accordion-player Keane, originally from Drimnagh, Dublin, has been playing since he was six. As a teen the band he co-founded (the famous Castle Ceili Band) won the All-Ireland ceili band competition.
He went on to win four All-Ireland championships on the accordion and become an important figure in the Dublin folk revival. After emigrating to America and in the years since, James has established a worldwide reputation as one of the finest Irish accordion players of our time.
Randal Bays is a self-taught American-born musician who's been playing Irish fiddle for 30 years. Through his recordings and performances in Furope and America, he has built up a reputation as a master. He's "among the best Irish-style fiddlers of his generation," according to Fiddler magazine.
Daithi Sproule is a native of Derry
THREE GIANTS of Irish traditional music James Keane, Randal Bays and Daithi Sproule performing together as Fingal.
in the North of Ireland and a renowned traditional singer in both Irish and English, as well as one of the world's premier guitarists in the Irish tradition. He's worked with many Irish music greats, and been a member of the famed Donegal group Altan for a number of years.
Brian Hart (Brian O hAirt) was born in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1979 to parents from rural southern Indiana - destined, as his mother claimed, to become "either a country singer or football player." Instead, an emotional connection to the Irish singing of Darach O Cathain changed his life.
His affinity toward traditional Irish Gaelic songs and more specifically to the sean-nos style of singing
encouraged him to learn the Irish language to an uncanny fluency through several summers of immersion in the Ceantar na nOilean region of west Co. Galway. Having had the Irish form of his name affectionately bestowed upon him by many of his friends and fellow singers, he inevitably adopted it as his own.
Now as a matured singer, Brian's evocative voice - along with the high-powered playing of Fingal (among the many other artists at the festival) - stand as a testament to the power and beauty of tradition!
For more information on the Mission Folk Music Festival, and to purchase tickets, go to: www. missionfolkmusicfestival. ca