Among the acts confirmed to appear in 2020 are The Hanneke Cassel Trio The Ivy Leaf Sarah Collins and Eamon Sefton Corner House WILMA Yaniv Yacoby and Eric Boodman Laura Cortese Christine Hedden, Rebecca McGowan and Lindsay Straw Louise Bichan Calico McKinley James and Lily Honigberg Highland Dance Boston Scottish Fish The Treaty Trio Rising Step with Laura Feddersen and Cara Frankowicz Will Woodson and Caitlin Finley Rakish Elizabeth and Ben Anderson Kieran Jordan and George Keith Sean Smith Lampyridae Gabriel Solomon String Band and A Cape Breton Trip Through Time. Lamond, MacIsaac, and Doyle will be joined by outstanding local performers showcasing a diversity of Celtic music, from traditional to contemporary. In 2014, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship.įrom the video channel of StepAboutBoston A US champion Irish step dancer in his youth, Doyle has gone on to cultivate a career as a performer, choreographer and teacher of “close to the ground,” old-style Irish dance as well as American tap dance. Kevin Doyle is a world renowned Irish step dancer. Together the pair released an album, Seinn, in 2012 which won a Canadian Folk Music Award for traditional album of the year and a Music Nova Scotia award for traditional/roots recording of the year. Mary Jane Lamond is a Canadian Celtic folk musician known for combining traditional and contemporary material. Wendy MacIsaac is a renowned fiddler from Cape Breton recognized as one of the “old school” style of players who has kept the traditional sound going and has a deep respect for it.
This year, the festival will include performances by renowned Cape Breton duo Mary Jane Lamond and Wendy MacIsaac, and traditional Irish step dance virtuoso Kevin Doyle. The festival will feature more than 60 performances spread out across four days at Club Passim and the Sinclair. Presented by Passim, the festival will showcase greater Boston’s deep tradition of music, song and dance from Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, and other Celtic communities. The 17th annual Boston Celtic Music Festival, known as BCMFest, brings some of the most talented celtic musicians in the Northeast to Harvard Square January 16-19, 2020. Tunes of the Scottish Gaidhealtachd with Alasdair White – Sunday Jan.Passim Announced Lineup for Boston Celtic Music Festival, Harvard Square, January 16-19, 2020 Irish Flute with Shannon Heaton – Sunday Jan. School of Music BCMFest workshops listed below.Ħ:25 Nathan Gourley, Laura Feddersen, and Devin McCabe Thank you all for your support and understanding during these unexpected times.įull livestream will be available here on this webpage /bcmfest as well as directly on our Youtube and Facebook pages. Events will be either prerecorded videos or real-time live streams. The large crowds and number of artists make BCMFest a higher risk event in regards to Covid in comparison to Passim’s regular programming at this time. Out of an abundance of caution for our artists, staff and patrons, we as a committee have decided to make this year’s festival virtual. Regrettably, the swift-moving outbreak of the Omicron variant in Boston and elsewhere has forced the Boston Celtic Music Fest organizing committee to reimagine BCMFest 2022.
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The festival features acts that are traditional as well as others that draw on contemporary sounds and ideas full-time, professional touring acts as well as evenings-and-weekends musicians and performers from across the generations. BCMFest showcases Greater Boston’s deep tradition of music, song and dance from Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton and other Celtic communities.