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'It Sure Ain't Your Grandpappy's Fiddle Music9
By CATHOLINE BUTLER VANCOUVER - Imagine being able to listen to all your favourite Celtic music on the morning drive to work. Well dream no more. Starting on November 1, in addition to its other regular time slots, Celt In A Twist will air on the morning drive from 7 AM to 8 AM on 96.1FM.
The show features more music and less malarkey, plus a Celtic countdown and interviews with the top artists in the Celtic world. Patricia Fraser host of Celt in A Twist , and producer Cal Koat recently spoke with The Celtic Connection about the show.
Fraser, who claims a Scottish background, said, "One of the things I'd like to emphasize is that we really want to help Canadian groups.
"We want to give them an opportunity to air their music because we know how hard it is for them to get radio time.
For instance, we've interviewed such groups as The Clumsy Lovers; The Townpants; Spirit of the West; Gael Storm; along with Great Big Sea who were recently in town."
Producer Cal Koat said, "I think the appeal of Celtic music is its ability to cut across the generations."
The show is the first daily program of contemporary Celtic music in North America and spotlights the next generation Celtic fusions, including everything from the alchemy of Shooglenifty, to the Highland-metal of Mudmen.
Koat says, "it sure ain't your grandpappy's fiddle music."
Tune in to Celt in a Twist, Monday through Friday on CHKG from 1 to 2 PM at 96.1 FM; Sundays on CJVB Radio from 4 to 5 PM at AM 1470; and planetwide@ www. fm961.com. For more information, call (604) 889-8647, or e-mail: calkoat@attcanada.ca.
CAL KOAT the executive producer of Celt in a Twist radio show, shown with host Patricia Fraser.
Celtic Music Featured at Sacred Music Festival
VANCOUVER - Next month, the Plaza of Nations will open its doors to the fourth Annual Sacred World Music Festival. People from all over North America are already ordering their tickets, the posters are going up and the festival artists are rehearsing and preparing to travel to Vancouver for one of our city's most beautiful cultural events of the year.
One of the featured artists will be the Elyra Campbell Celtic Ensemble which will perform on November 11 at 4:45 PM. Vocalist Elyra Campbell was introduced to the music of the Gaels at an early age through her father's enthusiastic Highland piping.
After years of classical training, studies in world music, a BFA in jazz and a decade of performing and teaching in Seattle, she has returned to her earliest musical roots.
Singing in English and Scots Gaelic, Elyra will perform ancient Heb-ridean mouth music, Scottish Jacobite songs and haunting Irish airs, as well as her own compositions.
Accompanying herself on Irish harp, she will be joined by the stellar musical talents of Chris Gestrin on piano, Francois Houle on clarinet and Lauri Lyster on percussion.
Elyra and friends bring a decidedly contemporary flavour to one of the world's most ancient and soulful musical traditions.
Tickets are available through the festival box office at (604) 257-0366, at Banyen Books & Sound (604) 737-8858, Highlife Records (604) 251-6964. For more information, visit their website at: www.sacredmusicvancouver.org.
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Scots Poll says Irish a Cultured Bunch
DUBLIN - A new survey of prominent Scots in the world of televi-J sion, movie-making, music and the performing arts puts Ireland at ithe top of the culture league.
According to the survey, Ireland ranks above a whole host of other nations including England and the United States. The poll covered more than 100 big players on the arts scene, including many organizations.
They were quick to praise the Irish scene and put it forward as a role model. Dublin's "vibrancy" was one of the reasons given. Others included festivals in Galway and Cork and Ireland's "rich cultural i heritage" in general.
The professionals also cited Ireland's "enlightened" attitude to the arts and artists. While Scots had to go cap in hand looking for lottery money or Scottish Arts Council grants, the Irish government has made it easy for the arts community. Tax incentives, special stipends and even cheap travel deals with Aer Lingus have also all helped.
BONO VOTED NUMBER ONE
DUBLIN - He has the ear of world
leaders, is known in the White House as "the pest," and is on nodding terms with the Pope. So it is perhaps no surprise that Bono, who sings with U2 when he is not haranguing politicians about Third World debt, has been voted the most powerful person in music.
He was voted number one out of 50 movers and shakers by senior music business executives polled by Q magazine. Bono (42) was also"placed above record and media moguls, who are not household names but wield huge power in deciding which music gets produced and heard.