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25th Celtic Roots Festival celebrates Canada coast to coast
In 2017, the Goderich
Celtic Roots Festival turns 25
- and is celebrating Canada
from coast to coast to coast
as part of the Canada 150 cel-
ebrations across the nation
at the Celtic Roots Festival,
Celtic College, and Celtic
Kids Day Camp.
The Celtic Roots Festival
prides itself on presenting
the very best of folk, Celtic,
roots, and acoustic music
from around the world with
a focus on performance as
well as education through
the Celtic College and Kids
Day Camp offerings.
"Our 25th celebration lin-
ing up with Canada's
sesquicentennial meant we
just had to celebrate the
amazing music connected to
folk traditions to be found all
across Canada," says Kate
Johnston, Artistic Director.
The Canadian talent that
will be performing at the
Celtic Roots Festival
includes multiple Juno, East
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Kathleen Ivaluarjuk Merritt, an Inuit throat singer and folk singer, will be performing at the festival.
Coast Music Award, and
Canadian Folk Music Award
winners such as: songwriter
Rose Cousins (PEI); the new
father -son duo celebrating
their folk roots with political
leanings Bill & Joel Plaskett
(NS); powerful heir of a tra-
ditional singing family Mat-
thew Byrne (NFLD); the
incredible next step in the
Leahy fiddle and step dance
family Next Generation
Leahy (ON); the transna-
.tional traditional ensemble
3T1R (Ireland/ON/BC); the
proudly rooted four -sibling
ensemble Metis Fiddler
Quartet (MB); the latest
exponents of the hot Quebe-
cois folk -pop music scene,
Les Poules a Colin (QC); for
the first time ever, the Celtic
Roots Festival will feature an
artist from the North in IVA
(NU), a new ensemble fea-
turing Inuit throat singer and
folk singer Kathleen Ivaluar-
juk Merritt.
Fans of Celtic and folk
music from abroad will still
find plenty to enjoy as well,
with featured performances
from The Young'Uns (UK), an
award-winning trio of "pitch
perfect harmonies and rapid
fire humour" Irish uilleann
piper Martin Nolan (Ireland),
concertina and Irish pipe duo
Caroline Keane & Tom Delany
(Ireland) and the
Arrowsmith:Robb Trio (UK).
'Pickets for the Celtic Roots
Festival are now on sale at
wW'w.celticfestival.ca.
Weekend passes are on
sale at the advanced rate
until July 31: S70 for adults
and $65 for seniors (65+)
and youth (18 and under).
Day passes are available
for Friday ($30 adult/$25
senior or youth), Saturday
(S35 adult/$30 senior or
youth), and Sunday ($25
adult/$20 senior or youth).
Children 12 and under are
always free.
The Celtic Roots Festival
runs August 11 to 13 in beau-
tiful Lions Harbour Park in
Goderich.
Day and weekend passes
are available online or by
calling (519) 524 8221.
For more information on
the 2017 Festival line-up or
On the Celtic College course
offerings, visit www.celt-
icfestival.ca
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