PRE-FESTIVAL CONCERT IN MONTREAL A CELTIC HARMONIES SAMPLER Liz Carroll (USA), Dáithí Sproule (Ireland) with Jean-François Berthiaume (Québec)

Mary Jane Lamond, Wendy MacIsaac with Seph Peters, Cathy Porter (Cape Breton, NS, Canada)

from the festival's website: Where else will you find sharing the stage an American fiddler honoured on both sides of the Atlantic for her influence on Irish music, a guitarist hailed as “a seminal figure in Irish music”, a masterful fiddler who has brought the music of Cape Breton to the world for a decade, and the Gaelic vocalist who put Ashley MacIsaac’s single “Sleepy Maggie” on the national charts? If this foretaste doesn’t bring you out to the Townships hungering for more, we’ll eat our hats…