Sprag Session

Sprag Session, formerly Colin Grant Band, has developed a unique style and repertoire of music. Lingering somewhere amidst the rich, soulful roots of traditional Cape Breton music and the grooves of a thousand branches of rock and funk, Colin Grant embarks on his latest project: a dynamic and thoughtful mingling of beats and melodies from an extensive host of musical influences. Far from the awkward malaise of mohawked bagpipers and kilted punks, the Sprag Session has created a kind of Celtic fusion that is as much Béla Fleck and the Flecktones and Frank Zappa as it is Ashley MacIsaac.

Buddy MacDonald

Buddy's career as a singer, song-writer, entertainer, began about thirty five years ago. Born and brought up on the Northern Shores of Cape Breton Island, he was exposed at an early age, to the singing and story telling of some of the great Celtic singers of his native Island. Over the years he has travelled and entertained audiences throughout Canada, the United States, Germany, Scotland and the Scandinavian countries, performing as a solo act and in different combinations with other musicians from Cape Breton.

Gawler Family Band

John and Ellen Gawler, joined by their daughters, Molly, Edith and Elsie Gawler bring you an eclectic assortment of old and new sounds from many folk traditions. They accompany their warm interweaving family harmonies with fiddles, banjo, wooden banjo, cello, guitar, ukulele and piano as well as a few surprises. Whether they are crooning a quietly poignant ballad or delivering a rollicking fiddle tune, their unique arrangements are especially engaging and often go along with antidotes of historical or humorous content.

Don Roy

Don is a Franco-American ace fiddler who has been called the dean of Franco-American fiddling in Maine. In 2003, Don and an apprentice won a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grant from the Maine Arts Commission, recieving two traditional arts fellowships for excellence in traditional music.
Ethnomusicologist Bau Graves calls Roy the finest Franco fiddler in New England, whose playing, "exactly exemplifies what Franco American fiddling is all about. It is simultaneously precisely controlled and wildly danceable."

Crossroads Celtic Festival

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Crossroads International Celtic Festival

On September 11-15 2013, the inaugural Crossroads International Celtic Festival will feature musicians from all over the Celtic world and attract visitors to Oxford County and Franklin Counties. For five days in September, they will become home to a unique celebration of music and culture as the Crossroads International Celtic Festival presents dozens of concerts all over the county, an extensive line-up of community events, and a nightly Festival Club. Artists will travel from Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, as well as from across the United States to join the finest of Maine’s musicians, singers, dancers, storytellers for a lively fall celebration.

Are you a Western Maine Passport to the Arts holder? See our Passport Discount page for details.

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Gawler Family Band

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