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Pipes in the
Valley Music Festival
Saturday, September 26, 2009 |
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Connecticut's Premier Celtic Festival
Presents
GAELIC STORM |
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GAELIC STORM
You saw them in the
'The Titanic' movie!
Now here is your chance to see them live!
Gaelic Storm plays over 125 dates/year and are heralded for their
energetic performances and enthusiastic audience interaction. Their
play list consists of original interpretations of Celtic classics
and well-crafted originals.
The band has released 6 albums all of
which have charted on the Billboard World Music Charts including
their most recent album, "What's
The Rumpus?" Irish Album of the Year!
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From Los Angeles California,
The Wicked Tinkers! |
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They last played at
Pipes In The Valley in 2006 to standing ovations!
They've played the Late, late show, with Craig Ferguson!
The Wicked Tinkers perform the kind of music you might have heard
hundreds of years ago at a Scottish wedding, ceilidh, or around the
campfire of a Highland raiding party.
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Seven
Nations |
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Seven Nations is a Celtic rock band that formed in New York City,
New York, in 1993. The name comes from the seven Celtic nations,
including Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, the Isle of
Man and the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (Gallaecia). The band
tours extensively and has played in many diverse venues, from small
bars to prestigious concert halls.
The band regularly tours across the US, has appeared on ESPN, CNN
World Beat, PBS and CBS, and has sold over 140,000 albums since
1996, without signing to a major label
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Mactalla Mor |
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Gaelic for Great Echo, MacTalla Mor,
is a hard driving band whose dynamic rhythms pack festivals with Earth Shaking,
Ground Breaking Celtic Roots Music. They have played at Caesar's Palace Las
Vegas Grandfather Mountain Highland Games for ESPN, ABC and NBC TV and at Pete
Seeger's Clearwater Festival.
Their latest CD "The New Colossus" was recorded
in New York in 2007. The CD's title track The New
Colossus is based on a sonnet of the same name by Emma Lazarus that's final
lines were engraved on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of The Statue of Liberty
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Maidens IV |
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Four sisters,
Four part Harmony,
Four instruments,
. . . and eight dancing feet!
In 2003 Havilah and Heather branched out from the family quartet to
create the Maidens IV band. Two years later Abigail joined her older
sisters adding the alto sounds of her viola. In 2006 youngest sister
Tabitha, brought a vibrant change to the band with her driving
rhythms and sensitive acoustic guitar.
A new dimension to Celtic music sparks to existence as these lovely
ladies whirl into the Celtic & Folk sphere. |
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. . and what would the night time be without fire?
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Don't miss the Pipe Band's parade
over the Founders Bridge at Noon! |
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Extra, Extra ! |
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Come on over to
The
Great Taste
September 25 - 27 at the CT Convention Center,
next
door to the new CT Science Center!
Enjoy a fine selection of Olde
Burnside Brewing
ales and stouts at this lifestyle event!
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An Evening with Brian McNeill
East Hartford Community Cultural Center
8pm Saturday September
19
(Mention TPA at the door and get $5 off!)
It will be a great night
of music at the East Hartford Cultural Center on Saturday, September
19 as
Brian McNeill starts the evening off right at 8 PM.
Doors open at 7PM. Advance
tickets are $15 and will be $20 at the door. Tickets may be purchased
at
www.ehccc.com or
by calling the East Hartford Parks and Recreation Department at
(860)291-7160..
From his years as a founding member of the Battlefield Band to Clan
Alba, to his participation in the highly acclaimed Celtic Fiddle
Festival, to a brilliant solo career, he has been a huge force in
Scottish folk music. A master class fiddler and guitarist and
performer yet it is Brian's songwriting, which garners him praise from
his peers. His acclaimed multi-media show, Back of the North Wind,
which tells the story of the Scots who came to NA is available as a
complete show and is now joined by Brian's new project Baltic to
Byzantium. He recently left his position as head of Scottish Music at
the Royal Academy of Music and
Art in Glasgow to go back full time touring and producing.
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While you are at 'Pipes
in the Valley', take a relaxing
Cruise of the CT river on the Hartford Belle ! |
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This year, we will be offering 45 minute cruises of the
Connecticut river! Get your tickets at the Olde Burnside Brewing
T-Shirt booth on the upper level and then catch the boat on the
lower level, beside the main stage!
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Brewer's
Corner |
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The 'Pipes in the Valley' Celtic Music Festival is made possible through
joint sponsorship with Riverfront Recapture and Mortensen's
Riverfront Plaza.
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Get 'kilted' for under $100 at
The Frugal Corner.
Just one of the many Celtic Vendors at PIV! |
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Please keep these Celtic Games
and Festivals in mind and enjoy the crisp days of fall! |
New Hampshire Highland Games
Lincoln, NH
September 18-20, 2009
www.nhscot.org
St. Andrews Society Scottish Festival
Goshen Fairgrounds,
Route 63,
Goshen, CT
October 4, 2008
www.sasct.org
Scotland Games & Scottish Festival
Edward Waldo Homestead, Waldo Road, Scotland, CT
October 12, 2008
www.scotlandgames.org |
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Don't Forget the Pipe Bands!
Massed Bands on parade at Noon! |
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Manchester Regional
Police & Fire
Clan
Ross Pipe Band from Lebanon, CT
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Amityville Highland Pipe Band, from Long Island|
Quaboag Highlanders from Monson, MA
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CHEERS !
Bob &
Gail McClellan |
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