https://celtic-colours.com/2024-festival-guide

https://celtic-colours.com/presentations/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUDsbMvMHxs


.....Cape Breton Island is home to a unique combination of music and culture, inspired by 19th Century settlers from Scotland and Ireland, and influenced by the Mi’kmaq, the Island’s physical geography, and the waves of immigrants who populated its communities during industrialization. Generation after generation of settlers, from the Scottish and Irish to the French who came before them, were able to maintain their culture and traditions in this new land due in part to the Island’s isolation and subsequent lack of outside influences. Music, language, dance, and community played an important role in each of these cultures and continue to do so today.
One of the things that sets Celtic Colours apart from the vast majority of festivals taking place around the globe is that it isn’t limited to just one location. Communities around Cape Breton Island host concerts and workshops. These are the communities where the culture has been nurtured for over 200 years, providing context for the roots of the music and celebrating each community’s contribution to the Island’s living Celtic culture.
In many of these communities, the local fire hall, parish hall, or community centre has hosted musical events for generations, in some cases, literally moving the fire trucks out of the hall to accommodate a dance. Venues for Celtic Colours vary from an 18th-century reconstructed French Chapel to state-of-the-art performance facilities to community halls, but all venues share in common the prominent place each holds in the community it serves.
The Celtic culture of music, dance, and story-telling lives on in these communities and provides foundation for the celebration of living culture that is the Celtic Colours International Festival.

Damn!! We just left there

Today is the big day!

The Celtic Colours International Festival will begin at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre and end at Centre 200 on October 19 with The Grand Finale.

We will be live-streaming selected concerts during Celtic Colours 2024, including Let's Go Up Home Tonight, which will go live at 8:30 PM EST this evening

celticcolours.ca.

Nothing can duplicate Celtic Colours live and in-person, and we encourage everyone to take it in for themselves. The world-class musical performances, scenery and Cape Breton hospitality, the anything-can-happen vibe of Festival Club, the general excitement around the island, and the wonderful friendships made among festival-goers can only be truly experienced in person.