The Barra MacNeils

Island horizons

by James M. Manheim

posted 9/1/2008

Celtic music, especially of the Scots variety, has a mass following in Canada, with musicians covering a whole spectrum of styles from the purest tradition to rock slightly inflected with harps and whistles. The Barra MacNeils of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, are a sibling group of the sort that seems to spring up frequently from the local scenes that still nourish

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