The sixth ceilidh of the Chestico Museum’s 2012 summer ceilidh series was held on August 23rd.
Our fiddler was Mike Hall who is originally from New Brunswick. One of Mike’s major musical influences when he was growing up was Port Hood native Alex Lewis MacDonald. Mike gave us a number of tunes off his new cd, Dance Hall, which is available in our Gift Shop. He was accompanied by Cathy Hawley and they were certainly enjoyed by all!
Mike is part of Celtic Colours this year and will be appearing in the Celtic Pub show in Baddeck.
We were fortunate to have two singers with us for the evening – Barbara Cameron and Lynn Chisholm. Both are incredibly talented and real crowd pleasers! They sang some old favourites and Barbara also treated us to a beautiful song written by her late husband, Earl.
Lynn told us about her latest project which aroused quite a bit of interest. She is going to bring the Grand Ole Opry to Glencoe this December! The Opry stage will be recreated and locals will perform as Opry legends such as Minnie Pearl and Dolly Parton! It certainly sounds like an event not to be missed!
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