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Glenaladale Scottish Cultural Days
Glenaladale Scottish Cultural Days for 2025 is on July 26 at Glenaladale Schoolhouse.
The day’s events will start at 1:30 pm with a Gaelic Circle, sharing vocabulary and song. This is an opportunity to learn some Gaelic expressions and easy and memorable songs as well as some stories behind them. After a break for refreshments, there will be a storytelling and song session at 3 pm which includes Gaelic stories and their translation into English. In addition, there will be Gaelic songs with PEI and Cape Breton roots, some brought to Cape Breton by Scottish settlers who came first to PEI and later moved on to Cape Breton. Both sessions are an hour and fifteen minutes. Admission is by donation.
The Scottish Concert begins at 7 pm. It will feature three talented Gaelic-speaking resource persons and local Islanders, including the talented Dorothy Curley, a well known singer and instrumentalist. Lili Watson is a young singer and step dancer. She has been immersed in the Gaelic language and culture from a young age and has performed at Celtic Colours. Lili is currently working in Gaelic education at the Highland Village, Iona, Cape Breton. She will be joined by her mother who is a storyteller and Gaelic singer, as well as Vincent MacDonald, a young fiddler and step dancer. He finished his first year of Celtic Studies at Cape Breton University, has taken fiddle lessons from Kyle MacNeil of the Barra Macneils and has performed at Celtic Colours. All three hail from Little Judique.
Admission for the afternoon sessions is by donation at the door. There is admission at the door for the concert, though children under 12 years old get free entrance.
Info: 902-969-2693 or 902-629-0169
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