Cape Breton
Fiona MacGillivray
Seen and heard on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Centre, and Tokyo’s Sumida Triphony Hall, among many others, multi-instrumentalist Fiona MacGillivray began her professional music career at the age of seven, when she started performing around Cape Breton with her brother, Ciarán. She made her first recording at the age of nine, and within two years Fiona and Ciarán had met young musical siblings Roseanne and Jimmy MacKenzie and The Cottars was born. Over many years, the teen quartet toured worldwide, recording four critically acclaimed albums, winning a multitude of awards, and growing an international fanbase. In more recent years, Fiona has been developing her own sound, honing her skills as a songwriter and composer as well as a celebrated singer. Skewing in a lush, cinematic direction, Fiona’s music draws from influences of folk, pop, dark jazz, electronic, theatre, and classical. In 2022, the wistful songstress fused classical melodies with modern pop to explore themes of romance, inspiration, and madness in her show The Schumann Project. We are happy to welcome Fiona back to the Celtic Colours stage this year to pay tribute to “Tic” and Emily Butler.
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