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We’re down to the stretch run now on holiday shopping, and I’m determined to use the last few days to fill you in on more local music you might like to place on your wish list, or pick up for someone else. I’m all about buying local these days, keeping the cash circulating in our… Continue reading Bob Mersereau Music Review

Thank you to the good folks at Folk Alley for declaring “If You Were Mine”, from the album Seinn, one of their Top Songs of 2012. You can read Folk Alley’s complete list, and others, on the NPR Public Radio’s Top Songs of 2012. Visit the Folk Alley website to vote for Seinn in their… Continue reading Folk Alley’s Favourite Songs of the Year

Seinn is a new release from long time friends Mary Jane Lamond and Wendy MacIsaac, two stalwarts of the traditional music scene in Cape Breton. While their friendship and a shared interest in Nova Scotia’s Gaelic heritage go back a long way and they’ve played together before, this is their first formal collaboration. Wendy is… Continue reading Arts & Culture Maven Reviews Seinn

It’s official! Mary Jane Lamond and Wendy MacIsaac’s new album is officially on iTunes.  You can head over  to iTunes and get your copy today! ( iTunes link )

Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac – Atlantic Airwaves Saturday October 27, 2012. On this saturday’s edition of CBC Atlantic Airwaves, CBC will have a feature on Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac and their new release ‘Seinn’.

Both renowned solo artists — MacIsaac, a fiddler, piano player and stepdancer from Creignish, and Lamond, a Gaelic singer and resident of Glendale — the two have come together on a new album, their first collaborative recording effort. For many years, MacIsaac was Lamond’s faithful accompanist when she was touring her music and eventually that… Continue reading Mary Jane and Wendy showcasing new album at Celtic Colours

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia is an odd place to find Scottish culture preserved in amber, but that’s exactly what’s happened. In fact, in some ways Cape Breton has preserved more of Scottish culture than Scotland itself, especially when it comes to the threatened language of Scottish Gaelic. Seinn means ‘sing’ in old Scots or ‘sing… Continue reading World Beat Canada Reviews Seinn

“Straight-up Celtic music has few sturdier proponents than these two. Mary Jane is best known as Ashley MacIsaac’s Gaelic singer and Wendy as fiddler in the band Beolach. A contemporary touch like half-funky bassline might cameo, but this sumptuous recording may confirm the word that Cape Breton music is more Scottish these days than the… Continue reading SEINN Makes Waves in The Coast

Celtic Colours gives MacIsaac, Lamond platform for shared ideas Wendy MacIsaac and Mary Jane Lamond have performed together for years, but when they shared the stage last year on the opening night of 2011’s Celtic Colours International Festival in Port Hawkesbury, they decided to try something new. It was a safe place to experiment, after… Continue reading Noteworthy collaboration finds new high

Seinn is a new release from long time friends Mary Jane Lamond and Wendy MacIsaac, two stalwarts of the traditional music scene in Cape Breton. While their friendship and a shared interest in Nova Scotia’s Gaelic heritage go back a long way and they’ve played together before, this is their first formal collaboration. Wendy is… Continue reading Art & Culture Maven Reviews Seinn