Scottish Voice Show #577

April 30, 2011         Technical Producer/ Host:: Mark Korman Halifax Correspondent & Gaelic Teacher Suzanne Beaton Music 1              Steve Dooks /Atlantic Canada Ceilidh /She’s Halifax 2              Steve Dooks /Atlantic Canada Ceilidh / Thousand Island Jigs   3              Steve Dooks /Atlantic Canada Ceilidh / Fields of Healther 4              The McCalmans/ The Greentrax Years / When the Risk of [...]

The poshest street in Scotland

By Donna Watson Only five of the top 20 are outside Edinburgh itself and only three outside the capital’s postcode area. The street where former Rangers chairman David Murray lives has been named Scotland’s most expensive residential road. The average house price in Belmont Drive, Edinburgh, is a whopping £2,346,000, according to a Bank of [...]

Scottish Voice Show #576

April 23, 2011  Producer/Host: Janet Stubbert                                          Technical Producer: Mark Korman Halifax Correspondent & Gaelic Teacher Suzanne Beato Music 1              The Wherries/Now and Then/Shoals of Herring            2              Kinnon and Betty Beaton/Saturday Night Lively/Little Joey Gillis March 3              Kinnon & Andrea Beaton/ Self titled/ The Highlanders               4              Ted Christopher/ Caladonia 5              Kinnon & Andrea Beaton/Dee Reels 6              [...]

Scottish Voice Show #575

April 16, 2011  Producer/Host: Janet Stubbert                                          Technical Producer: Mark Korman Halifax Correspondent & Gaelic Teacher Suzanne Beaton Music 1              Donnie Munro/Heart of America: Across the Great Divide/Cha Till 2              MacIsaac, Jackie Dunn; Wendy MacIsaac/ The Heart of Cape Breton/ The Sort Grass Jig 3              The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem/Finnegan’s Wake/Rosin’ the Bow 4              Dolores Keane/Celtic Woman [...]

Scottish Voice Show #574

April 9, 2011  Producer/Host: Janet Stubbert                                          Technical Producer: Mark Korman Halifax Correspondent & Gaelic Teacher Suzanne Beaton

Ishbel MacAskill 1941-2011

A world-renowned Gaelic singer has died after an accident at her Highland home, according to a report from Scottish newspaper, The Press and Journal.   Scotland’s Ishbel MacAskill stumbled and fell in the kitchen of her house in Inverness, Scotland last week. MacAskill is well known to Celtic music fans in Cape Breton and around [...]

Scottish Voice Show #573

April 2, 2011  Producer/Host: Janet Stubbert                                          Technical Producer: Mark Korman Halifax Correspondent & Gaelic Teacher Suzanne Beaton Music 1              Stephen Quigg/ Highlands tomorrow/ Rambles of Spring 2              Howie MacDonald/ the dance last night/ David Rankin medley 3              Drumlin/ Drumlin Mackerel Skies/ The Twa Brothers 4              Colin Grant/ Newmill Brig 5              Men of the Deeps – [...]

BEATON (MacEACHEN) ELIZABETH

93, Mabou.  With sadness and fond memories we announce the passing of our beloved mother, grandmother sister, great-grandmother, mother-in-law and friend, Elizabeth Beaton, on April 2, 2011, in Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital.  Born in Mabou Coal Mines, Elizabeth was a daughter of the late Alexander “Sandy” and Elizabeth “Betty” (MacDonald) MacEachen.  Elizabeth was a lifelong [...]

APRIL 2011

 “OLD BONES” God Saw you hungry & created McDonalds, Wendy’s, and Dairy Queen. He saw you thirsty & created Coke, Juice, Coffee and Water.  GOD saw you in the dark & created Light. GOD saw you without a good looking, adorable, FRIEND So He created ALMAGE Rosemount/St. Michel Satellite    Hope you’re having a Terrific [...]