One of my favorite summer music festivals, the Saltwater Celtic Music Festival, is back for a second, a truly good piece of news! Sleeping Hedgehog has their new press release up now and I will only add that one of the acts I’m looking fears to seeing there is Black 47 whose headlining on . . . → Read More: Saltwater Celtic Music Festival
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Dear Friends: Tickets for the 2012 Saltwater Celtic Music Festival (July 14-15, 2012 at Thomas Point Beach in Brunswick, Maine) are now available online. Check out what promises to be the premier event on the New England Celtic music calendar this year. For a limited time, Saltwater is waiving its $5.00 shipping . . . → Read More: Tickets on Sale for 2012 Saltwater Celtic Music Festival (Press Release) Recalling the roaring hearths and roars of laughter that are part and parcel of Christmas in Irish families, virtuoso fiddler Eileen Ivers interweaves age-old Wren Day songs, beloved American carols, and even a jigging Bach in An Nollaig: An Irish Christmas. With her signature warmth, Ivers invites listeners in for a tuneful, soulful celebration . . . → Read More: The Warmth and Mirth of an Irish Christmas: Fiddler Eileen Ivers, Tricky Wrens, and Troublesome Cakes on U.S. Tour (Press Release) The Celtic folk duo Castlebay will present a special concert featuring music, lore and imagery of the Celtic Cosmos. The mythology, music and arts of the ancient Celtic people reflect their belief in cycles and that a cycle began in darkness. Evidence left us by the early inhabitants of the British Isles indicates that . . . → Read More: Castlebay, Monday, November 14 at 7 pm at the Southworth Planetarium, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland, Maine (Press Release) Battlefield Band are very pleased and honoured to be nominated for ‘Scottish Folk Band of the Year’ at the Scots Trad Music Awards 2011 The aim of the Scots Trad Music Awards is to highlight Scotland’s wonderful traditional music, and Battlefield Band were very proud to be awarded ‘Best Live Act’ at the very . . . → Read More: BATTLEFIELD BAND NOMINATED FOR SCOTS TRAD AWARDS 2011 ONLINE VOTING OPENS MONDAY 31st OCTOBER (Press Release) “For want of a nail, a shoe was lost. . . .” — William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard III. Remember that — it’s going to be important. The Wild Ways is the second of Tanya Huff’s stories of the Gales, this time centering on Allie’s cousin Charlie — Charlotte Marie Gale, an . . . → Read More: Tanya Huff: The Wild Ways Battlefield Band’s old muckers Alan Reid & Rob Van Sante are about to embark on a US tour of their own, which takes them to Harvard MA, Dummerston VT, Colebrook NH, South Carthage ME, Unity ME, Braintree NH, East Lyme CT, Rockville MD, Jacksonville FL, and St Petersburg FL. The duo will be presenting . . . → Read More: Alan Reid and Rob Van Sante on Tour in the USA Now (Press Release) Old time, roots, Americana, folk, bluegrass – whatever…it’s just plain old pleasure. – The Boston Globe Change creates opportunity, a principal that was successfully tested by Alaska-by-way-of-Nashville’s Bearfoot last year, when original members Angela Oudean and Jason Norris found themselves presiding over a prolonged period of shifting personnel. And when the pair . . . → Read More: Bearfoot: Sunday, 8 PM, November 20th, One Longfellow Square Portland, Maine (Press Release) Dublin-born guitarist and singer-songwriter John Doyle announced his upcoming solo release Shadow and Light available now on Compass Records. The album honors and advances the Irish tradition through Doyle’s virtuosity on the guitar and through new original songs. Doyle was exposed to music at an early age through his family. A dare from a childhood . . . → Read More: John Doyle: One Longfellow Square, 8 PM, Portland, Maine, Friday, November 18th (Press Release) They’re dancing high and they’re dancing low / The King of the Sidhe will not let you go / And you follow them round… into the mound of the faeries… — Coyote Run’s “Finnean’s Dance” There’s been a bit of a stir in the Green Man Pub of late; one of our staffers keeps . . . → Read More: A Triple Howl |
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