Season's Greetings

[Doug Francis]

Here's someone's list of Italian Celtic music. 
http://www.celticanapoletana.it/italy%20celtic%20band.htm
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From: cbmusic-bounces at locals.ca [mailto:cbmusic-bounces at locals.ca] On Behalf
Of Victor Maurice Faubert
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 10:10 PM
To: cbmusic at locals.ca
Subject: Re: Season's Greetings

marcello wrote:
> Hello Vic

Hello, Marcello,

My apologies for not having responded more rapidly; I've been away for 
the holidays and without computer access.

> unluckily I'm not such a sociable guy, so I've but few friends, and
> none of them is interested in Celtic music; neither my wife nor my
> daughters are, so I nourish my musical passion in spiritual
> loneliness, avoiding to bore them with my preferred tunes.

I know the feeling: I've been unable to interest any of my family very 
deeply in Celtic music either, though, as a bachelor, I have an easier 
time of it getting out to concerts than you do. While there's lots of 
Irish music in this area, I usually have to drive several hours from 
here to find the traditional Scottish music I love. Fortunately, every 
now and again a Cape Breton musician will take pity on us and come down 
to New England; we've also been lucky to have Kimberley Fraser in 
residence at the Berklee School of Music in Boston for the past and 
present years. This coming week-end, there's a Cape Breton dance at the 
Canadian-American Club in Boston with Doug Lamey (Bill Lamey's grandson) 
and Kimberley Fraser and friends; at this remove, the weather looks like 
it's going to be possible for me to be there and I'm really looking 
forward to it!

> This is why I can't offer to you any first-hand information about
> Celtic music in Italy:  I can only refer some links of some interest
 > for you: only few of them have english text,
> but anyway you can at least get a picture of the variety of events,
> bands, festivals and fairs
> that take place all year round especially in Northern Italy (where
> some Celt tribes lived some 2000 or 3000 years ago).
> 
> 
> http://www.celticavda.org/  
 >	(About Celtic music and festivals, English text too)
> http://www.celticaravan.com/en/
 >	 ("A journey through time, places, music and living traditions,
 >	  seeking a Celtic heritage in contemporary Europe")
> http://www.trigallia.com/
 >	 (Only in Italian, sorry, but there are maybe useful links)
> http://www.celticworld.it/
 >	(notwithstanding the name, it's only in Italian,
 >	but it gives you some good links and the visual idea
 >	of the various fields of interest of Italian Celtic fans)
> http://www.shamrock.it/
 >	(the official site of an Italian celtic music band; once again
 >	only in Italian!)

I found this very interesting reading. It looks like you have quite a 
vibrant Celtic music scene in Italy; I had no idea the music was so 
popular there, so I thank you very much for these links. I note mention 
of the Trigallia Celtic Festival which drew 25,000 attendees-that's a 
larger crowd *by far* than any similar festival I have attended here. I 
see a number of events featuring Celtic music all over Italy. I hope you 
are able to at least occasionally attend some of these events.

> Let me send to you and your family my warmest good whishes for this
Christmas and the New Year!
> Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo!
> 
> Marcello Grillini
> Roma, Italia
> 
> marcello.grillini at enea.it
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I trust you and your family had a joyous and merry Christmas and I wish 
you and the rest of the CB music list the best of new years.

-- 
                                                      Vic

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