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Celtic Music

MUSICIANS

Musicians interested in participating, please contact Dick Hensold.

*Schedule subject to change as we finalize details.

McCracken Pub Stage

A duo featuring entirely music for Highland bagpipes and keyboards, with Victor Zupanc, composer, music director for the Children’s Theater company, and fantastic keyboardist, and Dick Hensold, Highland Pipes.  The music will be centered around Dick’s extensive study into Cape Breton piping. (Cape Breton is at the Eastern end of Nova Scotia, settled 200 years ago by many thousands of Gaelic-speaking Scots. They preserve a very old style of playing said to come from Scotland’s Hebrides Islands.)

Here are some examples of them on YouTube:
Broken Rudder Medley
Currie set

MacKenzie, Sproule & Sutter: Traditional music featuring three voices, wooden flutes, whistles, smallpipes, bodhran and duo guitars.

Laura MacKenzie, Dáithí Sproule and Ross Sutter are delighted to be performing together for the Minnesota Scottish Fair 2024. Ross and Laura have been singing and playing as a duo for eons, often as “Ross & MacKenzie”, enjoying the stage at many Scottish and Irish festivals, fairs, performing arts centers and community events. Their renowned colleague Dáithí Sproule has joined them individually for numerous tours, regional performances and recordings, and as a trio they have made the rounds from stage to studio.

Eira is Liesel Wilson, Sue Spencer, Jim Ofsthun and Bridget Spencer. They perform music from Celtic nations and other parts of the non-Celtic world including: Scotland, Ireland, Newfoundland, Wales, Canada, China, Scandinavia and the U.S. They play traditional, contemporary and original songs and tunes sung in English, Gaelic, Irish, Welsh, Mandarin Chinese and more; played on fiddles, guitars, octave fiddle, erhu, bodhran, mandolins and whistles.

MacKenzie, Sproule & Sutter: Traditional music featuring three voices, wooden flutes, whistles, smallpipes, bodhran and duo guitars.

Laura MacKenzie, Dáithí Sproule and Ross Sutter are delighted to be performing together for the Minnesota Scottish Fair 2024. Ross and Laura have been singing and playing as a duo for eons, often as “Ross & MacKenzie”, enjoying the stage at many Scottish and Irish festivals, fairs, performing arts centers and community events. Their renowned colleague Dáithí Sproule has joined them individually for numerous tours, regional performances and recordings, and as a trio they have made the rounds from stage to studio.

Eira is Liesel Wilson, Sue Spencer, Jim Ofsthun and Bridget Spencer. They perform music from Celtic nations and other parts of the non-Celtic world including: Scotland, Ireland, Newfoundland, Wales, Canada, China, Scandinavia and the U.S. They play traditional, contemporary and original songs and tunes sung in English, Gaelic, Irish, Welsh, Mandarin Chinese and more; played on fiddles, guitars, octave fiddle, erhu, bodhran, mandolins and whistles.

With soaring melodies and driving rhythms, TNG puts their own high-energy spin on Celtic Folk and Americana. Innovating and original in their own ways, while respecting the traditions that have borne this music through the years. They compose, they arrange, and they put on a rocking show.

The long and the short of it is that the Gales are always ready to rock. Whether you’re looking to tap your feet, forget your troubles, or just share a pint over some great tunes, look no further than The Northerly Gales.

Ceilidh (aka the after party!) • Celtic Music + Dancing • McCracken Pub

Cultural Stage

Highland Dance is a traditional style of dancing from Scotland. It is one of two dance forms in the world that are danced entirely on the ball of the foot (the other is Irish step dance). The music is typically a tune on the bagpipes, and a dancer usually wears a kilt. The dances are made up of different parts, called steps. There are usually four or six steps to a dance, which are chosen by the dancer.

Dalwhinnie presents engaging, lively Scottish music in concert and as a dance band, performing on fiddle, flute and piano. From heart-melting airs to driving reels, Dalwhinnie expresses the soul of Scottish tunes. Today the trio is pleased to accompany Fligmagearie and dancers from the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society.

The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society performs Scottish country dancing which is a modern form of the “country dancing” popular in England and Scotland in the 18th century.

Fligmagearie performs traditional and modern Scottish step dances in the Twin Cities, MN area.

 

Influenced by her love of fairy tales, Tolkien, and the world music section at her local library, Minnesota-based harpist Stephanie Claussen loves to perform Scottish tunes, Bach preludes, and anything that sounds medieval or French. A two-time winner at the Master level in the Minnesota Scottish Harp Competition, she later went on to win the title of 2018 US National Scottish Harp Champion. In 2021 she performed as one of four finalists in the North America Princess Margaret Celtic Harp Competition. She now splits her time between arranging, teaching and performing throughout the Midwest.

Dòrain is a folk quartet based in Saint Paul, playing both Scottish and Irish traditional music. They perform songs in English, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic, frequently incorporating complex vocal harmonies, and mix in a hearty dose of jigs and reels on fiddle, flute, concertina, Scottish smallpipes, guitar, bouzouki, harp and bodhrán. The band is made up of Iain Dove McAfee, Alexander Dove Lempke, Mattie Ernst and Cara Weggler Menge.

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