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Celtic Force is pleased to announce their partnership with historic Columbia Speedway to present the first edition of Tartan Day South, A Celtic Celebration, on Fri. & Sat. April 1 & 2, 2011.

Friday will feature different activities throughout the greater Columbia area such as whiskey tasting, kilted fashion show and a pub-crawl.

The festival will be featured on Sat. at the Speedway and will include the best in Celtic music, athletic competition, pipe bands, children’s activities, dancing & herding demonstrations along with vendors and other organizations representing the best in Celtic culture, including such notables as Clan MacBubba.

There is a new web site being developed and the musical line up is being selected. We’re working on hotel packages and other cool activities for those that attend. Stay tuned and mark your calendars to be in Columbia, SC on April 1 & 2!

It’s the first TARTAN DAY SOUTH

By Maureen Perdomo and Jack Long, Guest Writers

In early July, on a crisp Sunday morning in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, the sounds of the song “The Kiss,” from the movie, “The Last of the Mohicans,” could be heard filtering down through the rocks and the crags into the valleys below.

Above, on a mile-high pedestrian bridge, 28 members of the Chelsea House Orchestra played as they crossed from one peak to another, bringing their version of “Celtic with a kick” to yet another part of the world.

This glorious site was the conclusion of CHO’s first trip to the annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, where the largest gathering of the clans in the United States takes place each year to celebrate their Scottish heritage.

This trip would also mark the beginning of one of the busiest and most traveled months in the CHO’s history, putting in over 2,400 miles in a three-week period in a tour that covered shows in North Carolina, Jackson, Edinboro, Pa., Grass Lake and ending in Chelsea.

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We stumbled across this inspiring video of images of Ireland set to “The Rights of Man.” We hope you enjoy it!

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Based on the success of the recent Scotland Homecoming Tour, Celtic Force will be doing it again next year.

Yes, and more than once!

Feedback from our first trip was excellent. We’ve been told we’ve hit the ideal formula for distinctive
tours… mixing history & people, faces & places, music & merriment, food & fun, all combined to deliver smiles and lifetime memories. On a scale kept both personal and intimate.

Now under consideration are 3 tours in Scotland and 1 for St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland.

We start next January in Glasgow with the Celtic Connections, the world class music festival. We will enjoy the music in the city over two weekends and see Scotland during the week. This trip will certainly appeal to the Celtic music lover!

In July we’re suggesting “On the Trail of David R Ross” using David’s book “Desire Lines” to guide our course, visiting those places David felt were unique and special. Experience the reenactment of the battle of Killiecrankie, which marked the beginning of the “Jacobiterisings” in the late 1600’s.

Later in 2011 we will partner with one of the musical groups we work with from the US to take their fans to Scotland on a special adventure.

Finally, going to Ireland during the St. Patrick’s Day holiday really needs little hype, it will be a great trip featuring some wonderful landscapes and fantastic music. See Ireland first hand during one of its most glorious times of the year.

Keep checking back for details and start telling your friends and saving your pennies.

For more information:
Celtic Force Enterprises Inc.
Contact: Donovan Murray or Eric Johnson
Phone: 336.499.9733/ 401.226.6366
info@thecelticforce.com

 

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Posted by Bryan Kremkau

St Patrick’s Day has passed this year but that doesn’t mean you can’t listen to some Celtic rock music still! The Rumjacks hail from Australia, but they don’t sound like it at all. The band is heavily influenced by The Pogues and Roaring Jack (obviously). Members of the band formed in 2008 when their other bands (the Laundrymen, Catgut Mary) broke up. I’ve heard many a Celtic rock band in my day, and these guys definitely stand out from the bunch.

I’m reviewing both their releases since each EP only contains 5 or 6 tracks each. Their newest release is “Hung, Drawn and Portered” and it’s a fine EP. It makes me want to hear more after hearing it. The first song on that album is “The Plantin’ O’ Kitty Randall” is an awesome track that sounds like a bunch of pirates are singing it. I notice that many bands cross over into the pirate territory when doing Celtic music sometimes. I don’t mind it, pirates rock! The accordion playing is top notch, and the singing is really good as well. The last track on the EP is a cover of “I’ll Tell Me Ma” and I can never get enough of hearing different covers of that traditional song.

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Celtic Force Enterprises, Inc. is pleased to announce that Donegal-based singer/songwriter Mickey Harte will appear Thursday evening, 11 March, 2010 at Uisge Beatha Pub, Woodlands Road, Glasgow. The event is part of the Albannach Homecoming Tour festivities organized by Celtic Force.

For those of you who don’t already know him, Mickey is among the most talented of modern-day Irish musical artists. His style could be described as contemporary with elements of rock, folk, and even some blues. Mickey writes and performs both electrically and acoustically. For this special invitation, Mickey is flying in for a solo acoustic performance.

The Homecoming Tour consists of 40+ American friends and fans of the Scottish performance group Albannach over for a week-long trek from Stirling to Glasgow to Inverness to Edinburgh. Other musical evenings of the trip include ones by Albannach, Ted Christopher, and Jim Malcolm.

Please know that all friends and family of both Albannach and Celtic Force are welcome @ Uisge Beatha. Show starts after 830pm. Event is “free” (as long as you drink!) for members of our group.

It’s a “don’t miss” night for aficionados of live performance of passionately upbeat vocals, lilting laments, acoustic bluesy riffs and other deft guitar work.

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Celtic Force Enterprises:  thecelticforce@gmail.com or thecelticforce@cox.net

Uisge Beatha: 236-242 Woodlands Road.  Tel:  0141 332 1622 – Nearest Subway stop: Kelvinbridge

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Source: IrishCentral.com

by Paul Keating

In the 1990s they were two Irish exiles arriving in New York City like so many before them, with youthful curiosity and adventure stoking their musical minds still very much in formation.
Fate and serendipity would bring them together in a new band called Solas (Light) along with other wunderkind in the Irish traditional music scene ready to take the music into the next millennium.

As wildly exciting and successful as Solas was in its opening five years of existence, it could not contain the brilliant pair who felt compelled to seek different roads for themselves at the turn of this century experiencing personal growth as artists and individuals.

Maturity and a willingness to expose themselves to greater challenges as professional musical artists have marked the work of singer Karan Casey from Waterford and singer/guitarist John Doyle from Dublin.

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Source: GreenvilleOnline.com

BY ANN HICKS 

It’s a wife and husband act all the way, says acclaimed Canadian Celtic fiddler Natalie MacMaster, whose fiddler hubby, Donnell Leahy, will join her on the Peace Concert Hall stage Tuesday night. 

“It’s a show we call two fiddles and two pianos,” says MacMaster, much admired for her bow prowess and Cape Breton-style artistry. Keeping it somewhat in the family, the keyboardists are Leahy’s sister, Erin, and Mac Morin from MacMaster’s band.

By the way, the couple’s three girls, who range in age from 4 years to 3 months will be with them in Greenville. “We want to give them experiences while we’re on the road,” MacMaster says, including a trip to Disneyworld while she and her husband perform near Orlando.

MacMaster describes their tour’s program as a showcase of the upbeat, energetic music she grew up with and calls it “the oldest form of Scottish music that exists today.”

Expect that “energetic music” to inspire the vivacious MacMaster to execute some fancy steps while she puts bow to string. Asked just how she can do both at the same time, she says there’s nothing to it for someone who’s been dancing since she was 5 and fiddling since she was 8.

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By KLINT LOWRY | The Suncoast News

NEW PORT RICHEY – The Pasco-Hernando Community College Foundation’s 2010 Performing Arts Series starts off with a big weekend, featuring one of music’s most timeless genres one night and another that defined a decade the next.

In what has become something of a tradition, Gaelic Storm will lead off the season with a concert at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, at the school’s recently refurbished Performing Arts Center at the PHCC West Campus, 10230 Ridge Road.

The quintet has appeared there each of the last three years, mesmerizing audiences with their repertoire that includes both Celtic rock and the traditional Irish and Scottish music that inspired it, with which they have entertained audiences around the world for over a decade.

Gaelic Storm formed in Santa Monica, Calif., in 1996, at a neighborhood Irish pub. A year later, the band gained notoriety portraying a steerage class band in the movie “Titanic”. Since then, they have toured extensively, spreading the popularity of Celtic music while expanding the genre with new arrangements of traditional melodies as well as original compositions that encompass both the energetic, upbeat humor and haunting ballads it is known for.

Three of Gaelic Storm’s albums have made the Top 10 on Billboard’s World Chart, with the 2008 release “What’s the Rumpus?” reaching the No. 1 slot in its second week.

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