Scottish Voice Show #590
July 30, 2011
To hear todays show and shows dating back to December 2011 go to Scottish Voice archive: http://scottishvoicepodcasts.blogspot.com/ Producer/Host: Janet Stubbert Technical Producer: Mark Korman Gaelic Teacher: Suzanne Beaton Guests: Belfast Andi, Diane LaBelle, Steve Grise, and Patrick Hutchison (Swift Years) Music 1 Mick Maloney/Pure Irish/Belfast Town 2 In studio Live Music provided by: Belfast [...]
Saturday,July 30, 2011 – Celtic Festival Line-Up
July 29, 2011
12:30pmGaelic Football – South field 12:30pm Bernadette Short Irish Dancers – Entertainment Tent 1:30pm Agincourt – Entertainment Tent 2:00pm Hurling Demonstration – South FielD 2:30pm Highland Dancers – Entertainment Tent 3:00pm Rugby Match – South Field 3:30pm L’an des Vents (Breton) – Entertainment Tent 4:30pm Salty Dog – Entertainment Tent 5:30pm Sophie & Fiachra – [...]
Sunday’s Highland Games! Montreal
July 27, 2011
The Montreal Highland Games July 31, 2011 Location 13800 Pierrefonds Boul Pierrefonds, QC Over the past 34 years the Montreal Highland Games & Festival has become one of the ‘premier’ events on the North American highland games circuit. The Montreal Highland Games is always held on the Sunday following the Maxville Games which makes it [...]
Brendan Nolan performing in Ormstown and in Huntingdon
July 27, 2011
On Friday the 29th from 8:30 to 9:30PM at Cafe Namasthe , 37 Rue Lambton, Ormstown, Quebec (There’s an open mike that starts at 7pm) And on Saturday July 30th. at Cafe Jazz Bistro, 107 Rue Chateauguay, Huntingdon, Quebec. The format is the same as at the venue in Ormstown. Please Note: The man who [...]
Is Peggy’s Cove getting too crowded?
July 27, 2011
Heavy traffic on the narrow roads that wind through idyllic Peggy’s Cove will be part of a study later this year. About 750,000 people visit the tiny seaside community each year, a number that has grown with an increase in cruise ship visits to Halifax and the completion of the Swissair Flight 111 memorial at [...]
Songwriter Leon Dubinsky
July 27, 2011
A roll call of Cape Breton musical greats gathered at the Dubinsky Family farm in Englishtown Sunday ( July 4, 2011) to celebrate the 70th (!) birthday of songwriter Leon Dubinsky (Rise Again; Josephine, She’s Got Her Diamond; Workin’ at the Woolco). Pictured here are Angelo Spinazzola, Ronnie “Drive’er McIvor” MacEachern, Fred Lavery, Scott MacMillan, [...]
Eclectic Co, Montreal, Que
July 24, 2011
Eclectic Co (Swift Years, Belfast Andi, Diane Labelle-Fusion Belly Dancers, African Drummers – Rag Attack & percussionists!) On July 31, 21:00 hrs. at Club Balattou, 4372 St-Laurent, (Cross Street Mary Anne)
Female humpback whale saved
July 24, 2011
The Whale… If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spiderweb of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She [...]
Frank Macdonald to launch second novel ‘A Possible Madness’
July 24, 2011
Award-winning novelist Frank Macdonald is set to launch his latest and much-awaited novel in Inverness, Cape Breton, later this month. ‘A Possible Madness’ set in the fictional town of Shean, a Cape Breton coal-mining town deals with a community struggling with its past and its future,” says best-selling author Alistair MacLeod, “something Macdonald manages with [...]
Rehearsals underway for ‘Bingo!’
July 24, 2011
Submitted by Sherry McGee , Published on July 20, 2011, CB Post Presented by Mulgrave Road Theatre, “Bingo!” will be staged at Neptune Studio Theatre in Halifax July 26-27, Chedabucto Place Performance Centre in Guysborough July 29-30, and at the Savoy Theatre in Glace Bay, Aug. 2-3 Heather Rankin is no stranger to the stage. [...]
