Videos

Natalie MacMaster: A Fiddle Lesson (DVD, VHS or PAL) Beginning with an introduction on grace notes and bowing and followed by the teaching and performance of five traditional tunes, this one hour lesson highlights some of the technical aspects of the Cape Breton style while providing a mini-repertoire.

 

Tracey Dares: A Cape Breton Piano Accompaniment Lesson (VHS)
Over the past number of years, the stylings of various Cape Breton piano accompanists have become familiar to people all over the world. Tracy's own unique approach has become popular through touring and recording with Natalie MacMaster,Paul MacNeil and others. She is also well known as a soloist . . . . . . . . . SPECIAL $7.95

Both Videos feature:
  • On-screen musical notation.
  • Close up views of the fingerboard / keyboard
  • Performance of tunes /techniques at slow and regular tempos
  • 8 page booklet includes musical notation for the music being taught.

The Glengarry Collection (Angus Grant) Book-DVD!! . . . . . . . . . . $29.95

Jean MacNeil: Spring in your Step Now a DVD- Easy to follow step dancing - one step at a time lessons. Practice music by Jean's children The Barra MacNeils. 97 minutes. .... $24.95

Highland Legacy: The Music of Cape Breton - A lively forty minute documentary which captures the passion of dozens of people within the Cape Breton music scene. Footage from square dances, festivals and house parties. Fiddling from Kinnon Beaton, Glenn Graham, Willie Kennedy, Rodney MacDonald, Alex Francis Mackay, Teresa MacLellan, Buddy MacMaster, Father Angus Morris and more. Commentary from traditional story tellers Archie Neil Chisholm and Joe Neil MacNeil, from historian Bob Morgan and from many professional musicians including John Donald Cameron, John Campbell, Winnie Chafe, Marie MacLellan and Doug MacPhee. Plus extra from various Cape Breton cultural centers.

 

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