New England Celtic Arts will host Canadian fiddle legend Sandy MacIntyre and special guest “Boston-States” pianist Janine Randall at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center in South Carthage, Maine on Sunday August 30th. The concert starts at 7:00 PM. This is the last in a series of four special Sunday concerts being held at Skye Theatre in August. Several Maine fiddle greats will be joining the duo on stage for a very memorable evening. A pre-show jam will start at 6:15 please bring your instruments and join in.
Sandy MacIntyre is one of today’s most prominent players and teachers of Cape Breton fiddling; he has also composed well over a hundred tunes, many of which have become classics of the Cape Breton style. He grew up in Inverness, Cape Breton, NS; his mother Cassie was a well-known fiddler in her own right, while his father Ronald was a well-known singer of Gaelic songs.
Sandy performs and conducts workshops throughout the US, Canada, and abroad. He is a frequent staff member at the American Festival of Fiddle Tunes (Port Townsend, Washington), and at the Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp (Estes Park, Colorado). For the past twenty years he has been an instructor of the fiddle program at the Gaelic College in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and he has performed for the last several years at Cape Breton’s famed Celtic Colours Festival. This year Celtic Colours is honoring him for his lifetime of achievement. His most recent CD is “Steeped in Tradition.”
Sandy has great faith in his culture and in all the Island people who keep that culture alive and vital and he always backs up his faith by giving generously of his time to organizing the fund-raising concerts, ceilidhs and dances that benefit his culture.
Janine Randall is a first generation American descended from the Camerons, MacNeils, and Walkers of Mabou and Margaree Harbours along the western side of Cape Breton Island. Coming from a well-known musical family, Janine naturally gravitated towards music and culture and in 1995 she founded and became the Director of the Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic Music in Inverness, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
An accomplished academic speaker, writer, piano teacher and promoter of Cape Breton culture, Janine has given presentations and workshops. She is also a regular accompanist at Cape Breton dances and concerts throughout New England, Canada, the United States and Scotland.
Skye Theater is located 3 miles West of East Dixfield village at 2 Highland Drive off Winter Hill Rd and US RT. 2 in South Carthage. Ticket price is $10.00 at the door. Call New England Celtic Arts at (207) 562-4445 for reservations and directions. More information at: http://www.necelticarts.com.
