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Family Square Dance St.
Andrews and District Community Centre |
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Tuesday July 6th, St. Andrews |
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Jackie Dunn-MacIssac
Jackie Dunn MacIsaac grew up in Lower South
River, Antigonish County and sincefirst stepping
on stage over 30 years ago, Jackie Dunn MacIsaac
has performed and instructed workshops and
summer schools across North America and Scotland
as a fiddler, pianist, and stepdancer.
She has appeared on numerous radio and
television productions, commercial videos, a
documentary film and a movie soundtrack,
released her debut CD ‘Dunn to a T’, and has
been a featured artist on over 20 other
recordings with artists such as Buddy MacMaster,
Kinnon Beaton, Glenn Graham, Brenda Stubbert,
Andrea Beaton and Wendy MacIsaac and is featured
on several compilation CDs of Cape Breton music
including a Smithsonian Institute Folkways
recording. Jackie co-produced a CD of her grand
uncle Dan Hughie MacEachern with her mother.
Jackie holds a Bachelor of Education degree as
well as a B.A. in Music with first class honours
both from St. F.X. University. Jackie completed
her undergraduate thesis on the strong
connection between the Cape Breton fiddle style
and the Scottish Gaelic language. As well as
performing and teaching privately year round,
Jackie is a public school music specialist. |
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Stephanie Wills
From Big Bras D’Or, Stephanie Wills has traveled
the world playing and teaching both the fiddle
and piano in the Traditional Cape Breton style.
Stephanie has performed and toured in the past
with the Cape Breton Summertime Revue, Spirit of
the Island and Cape Breton Gold. Her piano and
fiddle playing are featured on recent recordings
by Brenda Stubbert, Margo Carruthers, Wendy
MacIsaac and Kimberley Fraser and her music was
featured in Fiddler Magazine’s video “Carrying
on the Traditions –Cape Breton Scottish Fiddling
Today”. She has taught Cape Breton fiddle and
piano accompaniment at The Gaelic College of
Celtic Arts & Crafts, The Ceilidh Trail School
of Music and presently teaches fiddling at the
Take Note Music School in Sydney. |
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