Venue & Schedule Announcement
2015 Community Venue Schedule Celtic Colours International Festival invites you to join us October 9-17 and experience all that Cape Breton Island has to offer. This year’s Festival features 47...
View ArticleLoreena McKennitt @ Celtic Colours 2015
In advance of releasing our full line up of artists, concerts and cultural events for Celtic Colours 2015, we are thrilled to announce that Loreena McKennitt will be performing this year at the...
View Article2015 Artist Lineup Announced
We’re delighted to be bringing you a fresh and exciting lineup this year from the first very concert to the closing show. The 19th annual Celtic Colours International Festival covers a wide range of...
View ArticleCeltic Colours Live – Volume Three Available Now
Celtic Colours Live – Volume 3 available now They say, “You can’t take it with you”. And while that remains true in its original context, the Celtic Colours International Festival has found a way for...
View Article2016 Concert Venues
We are pleased to announce that Celtic Colours International Festival will include 49 concerts in 32 communities around Cape Breton Island this October. In presenting these concerts, Celtic Colours...
View ArticleHeart Of A Festival Teaser
Music festivals are odd beasts. No two are alike. They have thousands of moving parts; all contributing to the whole. It’s an intriguing and complicated system. On Heart Of A Festival, we try to get to...
View ArticleThe Early Days
Welcome to the Heart Of A Festival podcast Episode 1.1 It was a beautiful summer afternoon for a drive. So we took a road trip to visit Max MacDonald at his new gig; Beanie’s Bistro in Sherbrooke,...
View ArticleThe Next Chapter
Episode 1.2 The stages of your life are like chapters of a book. This is part two of our conversation with festival co-founder, Max MacDonald. We pick up right where we left off in this fascinating...
View ArticleThe Suspects Story
Episode 1.3 The Unusual Suspects of Celtic Colours: An epic showpiece for the Celtic Colours International Festival. This incredible undertaking is the brainchild of Corrina Hewat and David Milligan....
View ArticleFestival Club Shuttle
Make your Festival Club experience worry free with the Festival Club Shuttle. This service, supported in part by the Municipality of Victoria County, provides frequent runs throughout the night from...
View ArticleArtistic Directors
Episode 1.4 So we know that all music festivals have Artistic Directors; but what do they do, exactly? On this week’s episode, we try to shed a little light on that. We’re listening in on a...
View ArticleCrunch Time
Episode 1.5 The last stretch leading up to any event can be hectic. The goal is to make it all look very smooth in the eyes of the public. But when you’re organizing a major international festival with...
View ArticleUnusual Suspects Cross the Pond
The Unusual Suspects of Celtic Colours to perform at Celtic Connections in Glasgow, Scotland One of the highlights of the 20th Celtic Colours International Festival, which featured more than 45...
View Article2017 Concert Venue Schedule
While most of us may be good and ready for spring to come around, Celtic music fans around the world are letting their thoughts drift, ever so briefly, to the fall as they look forward to news about a...
View Article20 Years in Photos
Four photo exhibitions celebrating two decades of Celtic Colours now online “When they told me that they wanted to put together four photo exhibitions to run concurrently, opening in four months… I...
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