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From The Chronicle Herald
Celtic Colours International Festival will roll out the welcome mat for some of the event's favourite performers during the 2010 edition, taking place across Cape Breton Island from Oct. 8 to 16.
Now in its 14th year, Celtic Colours will be a homecoming for Cape Breton artists like Natalie MacMaster and Bruce Guthro, both of whom haven't performed at the festival in a couple of years, as well as familiar guests from overseas like Irish fiddler Liz Doherty and Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser.
"It will be nice to welcome back some artists who have spent considerable time in Cape Breton and feel at home on the island," says festival artistic director Joella Foulds in a news release.
This year's peformers will also include Scottish guitarist Tony McManus, Prince Edward Island singer-songwriter Lennie Gallant, Irish flute player and Gaelic singer Nuala Kennedy and Irish-American guitarist-singer-songwriter John Doyle.
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Natalie MacMaster, Rita MacNeil, Bruce Guthro and Mary Jane Lamond will perform during nine-day festival
By Laura Jean Grant -The Cape Breton Post
SYDNEY — The Celtic Colours International Festival is taking a page from the songbook of the late John Allan Cameron who declared his "first and last thoughts" were of home, in the still widely-known and loved song, Heading for Halifax.
Festival officials announced the 2010 lineup Thursday night during A Taste of Celtic Colours concert that took place at the Joan Harriss Cruise Pavilion in Sydney as part of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race celebrations. The concert featured performances by J.P. Cormier, the Colin Grant Band, Buddy MacDonald, Rachel Davis and Lewis MacKinnon, who will all take part in the 14th annual festival, set for Oct. 8-16 at venues across Cape Breton.
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 (Sydney, NS) Celtic Colours International Festival unveiled their line-up for 2010 during a concert Thursday night at the Joan Harriss Cruise Pavilion in Sydney.
"We're celebrating 'home' this year at Celtic Colours," says Joella Foulds, Artistic Director of the Festival, now in its fourteenth year. "It will be so nice to welcome home Cape Breton artists like Natalie MacMaster and Bruce Guthro, who haven't played at the Festival in a couple of years. It will also be nice to welcome back some artists who have spent considerable time in Cape Breton and feel at home on the Island, like Irish fiddler Liz Doherty and Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser who are good friends of Celtic Colours."
Other names who will be familiar to Celtic Colours' audiences from years gone by include Scottish guitar whiz Tony McManus; Prince Edward Island singer-songwriter Lennie Gallant; Irish flute player and Gaelic singer Nuala Kennedy, Irish-American guitarist-singer-songwriter John Doyle; Donnell and Erin Leahy from the popular Canadian family band Leahy; Acadien group Vishten; and Cape Breton's own rising stars, The Cottars.
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