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 (Sydney, NS) In a year that, by all accounts, wasn’t expected to make a strong showing in the tourism industry, Celtic Colours International Festival bucked the trend. The Festival’s unique combination of culture, heritage, history and scenery, bolstered by new investment and marketing initiatives, found new audiences and increased visitorship to the island, resulting in a $5.5 million economic impact on Cape Breton Island in 2009.
“A good portion of the credit for this success goes to ECBC and The Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage,” says Mary Pat Mombourquette, Business Director. “These partners funded new marketing initiatives that allowed us to reach a broader international audience.”
Dan Coffin, Marketing Manager, says this investment in new marketing initiatives enabled Celtic Colours to take advantage of new technology and social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
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(Sydney, NS) The Celtic Colours International Festival finishes its thirteenth year with a nomination for the 2010 East Coast Music Award in the Event of the Year category. The award nomination was announced last week at the ECMA 2010 press conference held at the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre.
“It’s an honour to be nominated for ECMA Event of the Year,” says Dave Mahalik, Information Officer for the Festival. “This is an award that is voted on by your peers in the East Coast music industry, so it’s nice to be recognized as one of the top events in Atlantic Canada. And it’s especially nice to be nominated when the awards are held in your hometown.”
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 By Silver Donald Cameron - The Chronicle Herald
WHEN Marjorie’s sister Zoe and her husband Garney proposed to visit from British Columbia, we suggested the week of Celtic Colours, with three concerts, lots of visiting and a tour through the blazing woodlands of the Cabot Trail.
Oddly enough, the concert in D’Escousse began with two B.C. teenagers, Qristina and Quinn Bachand, students of "the great Ashley MacIsaac."
It ended with Le Vent du Nord, a powerful, medieval-sounding band from Quebec. But the player whose presence accounted for the sellout crowd was Ashley MacIsaac himself, accompanied by 13-year-old Quinn Bachand.
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By Paul Keating - Irish Central
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia – The Big Fiddle stands guard over Sydney Harbor at the entrance to the Joan Harriss Cruise Pavilion signaling the importance of the violin to Cape Breton culture.
Inside the pavilion are the premier concerts bookending the Celtic Colours International Festival (www.celtic-colours.com) on the opening and closing weekend of the nine-day affair held each autumn for the past 13 years.
Last Saturday evening this year’s fest appropriately closed with a very special show, “Master Cape Breton Fiddler: A Tribute to Jerry Holland,” who lost his valiant battle with cancer last July at the age of 54 but not before firmly establishing himself as one very big fiddle player in the realm of Celtic music.
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