I would like to encourage anyone without plans on Friday, Dec. 5, to buy tickets to see the Cape Breton group Coig in concert at the Chocolate Church. Their name is strange (Coig means “five” in Gaelic) and their music not well known, but their performance is worth going out in any weather. I was fortunate to attend the Celtic Colours music festival in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, this past October and see Coig in their element. These young, fiery, award-winning musicians proudly carry their community and history in their music (not to mention instrumental virtuosity and skillful arrangement). Cape Breton Celtic music is unique from its Scottish contemporary counterpart. It carries the soul of the old music that escaped across the ocean with Highland Scots during the Clearances, and then developed in a new country with other cultural influences. Three fiddles shine in the foot-stomping tunes, keeping time with the piano and guitar, banjo or mandolin. I would encourage you not to miss this one — the Chocolate Church is way easier to get to than Cape Breton!
Celia Whitehead
Bath
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