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October 17,
2011
We had a great
time at the Ceilidh and concert yesterday.
Thanks to all that came out to support the
marathon day of music. We have a great deal
of respect for the folks that can, and will,
consume three and a half hours of music at a
Ceilidh, and then three and a half hours of
music and dance at the concert, and still
ask for more. This is why we do this. It's
to hopefully give those around us some
entertainment and a chance to make lifelong
friends. It was a great season.
Thank you to
everyone that keeps The Centre on their list
of things to see and do. Our Sunday Ceilidhs
continue weekly throughout the year, and the
sessions will be starting on Thursday,
November 3rd at 7:30pm.
October 12, 2011
Music
centre bustling during Celtic Colours
By Laura Jean Grant-Cape Breton
Post
If there’s
any organization you’d expect to be making the most of the
Celtic Colours International Festival, it would be the
Celtic Music Interpretive Centre.
And they
are.
The
centre, located in Judique, is a beehive of activity
throughout the nine-day festival with a full slate of events
aimed at drawing in the Celtic Colours crowds during the
day.
“We’re
about music and the festival is all about music,” said
Kinnon Beaton, director of the interpretive centre, noting
the festival is a perfect time to highlight what they do at
the centre year-round... [ READ ARTICLE ]
June 6, 2011
How to
look - and dance - like a local at a Cape Breton Ceilidh
By SUSAN MacCALLUM-WHITCOMB, The Globe & Mail
In Western
Cape Breton, the hills are alive with the sound of music. So
are the parish halls, the pubs, even several barns. It’s a
joyful noise – one made with fiddles, accompanied perhaps by
pianos, blistering bagpipes or guitars, and underscored by
the percussive pound of dancing feet – imported in the
18th-century when Scottish immigrants found refuge in a New
World locale that looked curiously like home... [
READ ARTICLE ]
Our summer
hours will be starting on Monday, May 30,
2011.
Mon-Sat: 9:00am
- 5:00pm
Sunday: 11:00am - 6:30pm.
Our Gift
Shop, Exhibit Room and Archives
will also be open during these hours.
Kitchen
hours:
Mon-Sat: 11:30am - 3:00pm
Sunday: 2:30pm - 6:30pm
Music
Demonstrations:
Start on May 30 and
will run Monday to Saturday. (click
for info & times)
Lunchtime Ceilidhs: Start on May 30
Mon-Sat:
11:30am - 12:50pm
Bus Tour Ceilidh times: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Annual
Golf Classic will take place
in Baddeck on July
7-8. (click
for info)
On June 29 we will be doing a kick off for
the Wednesday Night Ceilidhs. Our staff
and friends will be providing the music for
the kick off Ceilidh. Performers so far
include: Mike Hall, Allan Dewar, Cheryl
Smith, Shelly Campbell, Kinnon and Betty
Beaton and possibly a few more.
We will be
hosting other events as well that are in the
works, one being a Release of our latest
Failte CD titled Tunes From the
Heart.
The Buddy MacMaster School
of Fiddling will take place from
October 10-14 and our Grand Finale Concert will
take place on October 16.
Click here
for more info and to find out about the new
Jerry Holland bursary
We thank you
for your loyal support over the winter and
look forward to your continued support
through the summer and fall!
May 1, 2010
Tune in to
Cape Breton
Home to
Ashley MacIsaac, the Rankin Family and Buddy MacMaster, Nova
Scotia's northern island offers visitors many chances to
hear captivating music that draws on its Scottish and
Acadian heritages... [ READ ARTICLE ]
November 22, 2008
A March To Buddy
Failte (“fall’cha”)
or “welcome”. Allow me to take you on a march, along a
Gaelic yellow brick road across the Canso Causeway, up
historic Route 19 and into the Technicolor world of Judique,
Cape Breton Island, home of resident fiddling wizard Hugh
Allan “Buddy” MacMaster. The cornerstone of this musical Oz
is the Celtic Music Interpretive Centre. The man behind the
curtain pulling the strings is Kinnon Beaton, Director. The
upper echelon contains many more names for an enterprise of
this scope, but Kinnon and his efficient, friendly staff are
the front line, very capably attending to everyone’s
needs.... [ READ ARTICLE ]
July 23, 2008
Music on the menu: Music Interpretive Centre adds luncheon
entertainment
In response to suggestions from visitors that there seemed
to be no place to have lunch and listen to live music, the
Celtic Music Interpretive Centre in Judique has risen to the
occasion. Beginning in mid June, the centre put music on the
menu, along with a choice of chowders, sandwiches and
burgers, and the result has been crowded noon times...
[ READ ARTICLE ]
June 18, 2008
Music centre in Judique
hosts launch of 3rd edition of Failte
The Celtic Music Interpretative Centre in Judique is a
miracle of community determination coupled with its own
depth of music talent, and on Friday evening those strengths
joined forces to celebrate each other. The occasion was the
launching of Failte 3 - Traditions. Each year now musicians
contribute a tune or song to a compilation recording that
showcases the island’s talent... [
READ ARTICLE ]
March 16, 2008
Cormier
planning to shift focus from touring to songwriting and
recording
It’s not every day you can walk into a live music event
and hear a Canadian artist deliver a phenomenal cover
version of one of the finest folk songs ever written in
Canada, but that’s what music fans heard J.P. Cormier do
Sunday afternoon at the Celtic Music Centre in Judique... [
READ ARTICLE ]
September 21, 2007
Something special happened in Judique.
Buddy MacMaster: The Judique Fiddler details life of music
legend
I spent a very enjoyable afternoon in Judique this past
Sunday. I heard some great music and took in a special event
as well. I had checked out the lovely facilities at
Judique’s Celtic Music Interpretive Centre before, taken the
tour and viewed some of the archival and resource material,
but it was my first time at the Sunday afternoon music
session... [ READ ARTICLE ]
June 16, 2007
Celtic music
centre an example of dedication, community spirit
In just minutes, Virginia MacIsaac details how a dedicated
group of volunteers and the community worked together to
make the Celtic Music Interpretive Centre a reality. A trip
through the centre makes clear what kept them... [
READ ARTICLE ]
May 23, 2007
Failte - Airs and Waltzes official
release set for June 8th
This
second CD in the Failte series, Airs and Waltzes, again
produced by the Celtic Music Interpretive Centre and its
musical director, Kinnon Beaton, is an impressive selection
of airs and waltzes previously recorded by many of Cape
Breton’s signature Celtic musicians.... [
READ ARTICLE ]
March 17, 2007
Judique ceilidh is where
to be on Sunday afternoon
Each
Sunday afternoon from 3-7 p.m. the Celtic Music Interpretive
Centre in Judique hosts a ceilidh that has become a main
attraction for music fans from across the island and across
the Causeway. On Sunday afternoon, the ceilidh featured
Glenn Graham and Friends, and the newly constructed centre...
[ READ ARTICLE ]
January 2007
Corporate Sponsor
Appreciation Night
On January 25th, The Celtic Music Golf Classic committee
hosted a Corporate Sponsor Appreciation Night at the new
Celtic Music Interpretive Centre in Judique. The night
included complimentary cocktails, a fabulous... [
READ ARTICLE ]
October 18, 2006
The Cape Breton Fiddle: Glenn Graham releases a
musician’s
view on music in the Cape Breton culture
Cape
Breton fiddler Glenn Graham has waded into the ongoing
discussion concerning the role and influence of the Gaelic
language on Cape Breton fiddling with the release of The
Cape Breton Fiddle: Making and Maintaining Tradition (Cape
Breton University Press). While Graham’s book reaches far
beyond that... [ READ ARTICLE ]
October 11, 2006
The Judique Flyers pack them in at community centre
A person
couldn’t be blamed for wondering why organizers even
bothered putting out the chairs in the Judique Community
Centre for Monday night’s concert considering how much time
the sold-out audience spent on their feet... [
READ ARTICLE ]
October, 2006
It’s Doctor Buddy MacMaster as CBU
honours “very special man”
Driving up
through Mabou Ridge we soon headed down the gravel road for
the Dance in Glencoe-- and then we saw the light and could
hear the sweet sound of one of those famous jigs and the
feet on the floor-- we’d dance all night... [
READ ARTICLE ]
July 7, 2006
Judique's Celtic Music Golf Classic a Success
It was a bright
and perfect morning for an early round of golf. The golfers
enjoyed a lobster and crab dinner and a ceilidh the night
before with entertainment by Howie MacDonald, Dave MacIsaac,
Andrea Beaton...
[ READ ARTICLE ]
April
4, 2006
Kinnon Beaton appointed to Celtic
Music Centre
On behalf of the
Board of Directors of the new Celtic Music Interpretive
Centre in Judique; Chairman A. Lawrence Graham, QC, today
announced that Cape Breton fiddler, composer, and business
man Kinnon Beaton...
[ READ ARTICLE ]
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