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(Sydney, NS) Traditional music will have a home when the East CoastMusic Awards come to Cape Breton Island as 2010 ECMA Event of the Yearnominee the Celtic Colours International Festival hosts the CelticColours Festival Club. Hosted by North Shore singer-songwriter BuddyMacDonald, the Celtic Colours Festival Club will run from 11pm to 3amon Friday and Saturday nights at the Membertou Trade and ConventionCentre.
The Festival Club is a unique feature of Celtic Colours. It is theplace to go each night during the festival as artists and audiencesgather for a late night session after their concerts. The club offersan opportunity for musicians to get together and play in a moreinformal setting that allows them to collaborate and have some fun.
"Festival Club is the heart and soul of Celtic Colours and we plan torecreate that atmosphere of sharing and celebration," says JoellaFoulds, Artistic Director of Celtic Colours. “So many people arecoming here for the ECMA event and we want to show them how wonderfulour artists are and what great music they make. We'd like to inviteour regular Celtic Colours fans and all of the folks who can't make ithere in October to join us for some great craic. The only thingmissing will be the falling leaves."
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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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