Cassie and Maggie MacDonald will carry out a reside live performance Sunday, Feb. 25th at Bishop Hill Inventive Commons, at 309 N. Bishop Hill St., Bishop Hill. The occasion begins with a potluck dinner at 6 p.m., with music beginning at 7 p.m. A $20-30 donation is usually recommended.
Nova Scotian sisters, Cassie and Maggie have been lighting up the world with their distinctive mix of conventional and modern Celtic instrumentals and vocals, in line with a Heartland Connections occasion launch.
Showing on levels throughout North America, the UK, and Europe, the sisters have enchanted audiences far and large with full of life fiddle, piano and guitar preparations, beautiful sibling vocal harmonies in each English and Gaelic, all complemented by their intricate and percussive step-dancing fashion, the discharge stated.
The pair have been named 2016 Dwell Eire Radio’s “Vocalists of the Yr” and “New Group of the Yr”, Chicago Irish-American Newspaper’s “Rising Artist Recording of the Yr” winners, Galaxie Radio “Rising Stars,” Unbiased Music Award “World Tune of the Yr” nominees, a number of Canadian Folks Music Awards recipients, East Coast Music Award and Music Nova Scotia Award nominees.
“With songs starting from heartbreakingly lovely and smooth to loud and boisterous, Cassie and Maggie’s sisterly voices mix in such a manner that you simply mechanically know it’s genetic… theirs are voices that wrap themselves round one another greater than others,” stated a assessment from No Despair.
To be taught extra concerning the artists, go to their web site HERE. For extra data, go to the Heartland Connections web site HERE.
