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A Highland Ceilidh |
Thursday July 8, 2010
Piper's Pub - College St, Antigonish
Doors Open at 8pm
Tickets $10
Tickets Available at the Door.
Mark your calendars for what promises to be a
great ceilidh with four great musicians to
entertain us. Rodney MacDonald, Glenn Graham,
Dave MacIsaac, and Joel Chiasson will keep the
party hopping with an energetic mix of fiddle,
guitar, and piano.
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Glenn Graham |
Rodney MacDonald |
Joel Chiasson |
Dave MacIssac |
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Joel Chiasson
Joel is a veteran piano player and step dancer
from Cheticamp, Cape Breton. His playing has
been strongly influenced by the masterful
playing of Maybelle-Chisholm-MacQueen and John
Morris Rankin. For five years, Joel played
professionally as a member of Ashley MacIsaac,
as well as a pianist for the Nathalie MacMaster
Band. Over the years, Joel has taught Cape
Breton style step dancing through workshops
across Canada and the United States. Joel
continues to perform at various venues around
the province, accompanying most of fiddlers on
the island.
Dave MacIsaac
Internationally recognized as a master of
stringed instruments, Dave MacIsaac is a
maritime musician and is widely admired as such.
He plays traditional fiddle tunes with fiery
passion, and his stunning guitar playing,
whether solo or as accompaniment, is an industry
legend. Dave has been features on countless
albums of all genres of music and has an uncanny
ability to extract beautiful aspects of
different styles of music and then combine those
qualities into new sounds. Always interested in
expanding his knowledge of Celtic music, Dave
has thousands of recordings of Cape Breton
traditional music. He also possesses an archival
knowledge of tunes, and is often called upon to
name that tune for recording, as well as being
in high demand for session work.
Glenn Graham
The oldest of four siblings, Glen was born on
April 29, 1974 to Danny and Mary Graham of
Judique, Cape Breton. Danny, a well known Gaelic
singer, and Mary, an accomplished pianist,
always had music in their home, so there was
little doubt that Glenn would follow his
parents’ example. In fact, Glenn sang a Gaelic
song with his father in a Glendale concert when
he was 7 years old. His first fiddle lesson was
from his uncle at age 10. Glenn has been a force
to be reckoned with since he was a teenager,
playing for dancers when he was just 15 years
old. Influenced by the ancient sound of the “Mabou
Coal Mines” fiddle style, Glenn’s roots go deep
in the traditional Gaelic music of Cape Breton.
Well over four generations of his family have
produced more than fifty musicians including
fiddlers, piano players, Gaelic singers, pipers,
songwriters, composers & dancers. A St. Francis
Xavier graduate, Glenn has recently completed a
thesis on the evolution of Cape Breton fiddling
for his Masters in Atlantic Canada Studies at
St. Mary’s University.
Rodney MacDonald
Rodney MacDonald was the Premier of Nova Scotia
as well as an accomplished Cape Breton performer
who has toured throughout Atlantic Canada. He is
the grandson of the great fiddler & composer,
Donald Angus Beaton. He began learning
stepdancing from his parents at the age of four.
He excelled in stepdancing and soon picked up
the fiddle. He recorded his own solo recording
in 1996 entitled “Dancer’s Delight”. While he
was attending St. Francis Xavier University in
Antigonish, Nova Scotia, he began performing
with his cousin, the esteemed fiddler Glen
Graham. The two musicians paired up to record
the CD “Traditionally Rockin”, which was
nominated for two East Coast Music Awards when
it was released in 1998. Starting in 1999, he
served as Nova Scotia Tourism Minister and on
the Nova Scotia House Assembly. He became
Premier of Nova Scotia on February 24th, 2006.
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