The Cottars

簡(jiǎn)介: 成員:Ciaran & Fiona MacGillivray (13 歲& 12歲 ) ,Roseanne & Jimmy MacKenzie (14歲 & 11歲 ) 。
來(lái)自 Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada的兩對(duì)手足 更多>

成員:Ciaran & Fiona MacGillivray (13 歲& 12歲 ) ,Roseanne & Jimmy MacKenzie (14歲 & 11歲 ) 。
來(lái)自 Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada的兩對(duì)手足。在Cape Breton 的一次盛會(huì)上,這兩對(duì)手足分別擔(dān)任二重唱,由是結(jié)識(shí)并大有相見(jiàn)恨晚之感。他們給組合帶來(lái)了聰穎的天資,而惺惺相惜使得雙方都受益匪淺。組合的名稱來(lái)源于 Fiona MacGillivray 讀書(shū)時(shí)從學(xué)校獲得的靈感。在18、19世紀(jì)的Clearances高地,蘇格蘭移民被放逐到海外,他們中的一些人流亡到了 Nova Scotia & Cape Breton Island。也許因?yàn)檫@些“新來(lái)者”的陋室簡(jiǎn)鋪,Nova Scotia當(dāng)?shù)厝朔Q他們?yōu)椤癱ot”。處于少年時(shí)代的孩子大多把心思放在過(guò)暑假上,然而The Cottars卻很明白自己要做什么——巡游全國(guó)并表演具有自身風(fēng)格的凱爾特。去 Nova Scotia 和New England的行程已安排好,接受CBC-TV 的特別訪談 “Meet the Cottars”的日期亦已敲定。因?yàn)檫@些計(jì)劃,此夏將忙碌非常,但孩子們卻甘之如飴。更有甚者,凱爾特歌手John McDermott 亦是其忠實(shí)歌迷。與John McDermott 一道,他們已在New England地區(qū)登臺(tái),在PBC特別節(jié)目“A Time to Remember”露面。John McDermott 還擔(dān)任了The Cottars處女作“Made In Cape Breton”的監(jiān)制。
上世紀(jì)七八十年代,Cape Breton 的組合The Rakin曾展現(xiàn)了“Cape Breton ‘歌舞升平’”的勝景,(The Cottars的出現(xiàn)重造了這一神話)。 盡管只有11歲,F(xiàn)iona卻處事老成,仿若其已演奏一生。其父Allister MacGillivray是Cape Breto當(dāng)年杰出的創(chuàng)作人、歌手。在孩子們的成長(zhǎng)歷程中,出入其宅的音樂(lè)家使得孩子們受到良多熏陶。組合里的另一對(duì)手足是Roseanne 和Jimmy MacKenzie 。Roseanne11歲時(shí)就被譽(yù)為Cape Breton提琴手中的“希望之星”。其在“The Captain Campbell Medley”和 “The Pleasures of Home Medley”中的表現(xiàn)才華橫溢。這些曲目中,Jimmy 負(fù)責(zé)guitar 和bodhran 。Fiona 是領(lǐng)音。她的聲音直達(dá)心髓,雖然自己音質(zhì)卓越,她仍然贊嘆John McDermott在“Scarlet Ribbons”和“Here’s To Song”中的表現(xiàn)。The Cottars證明了音樂(lè)在青年人一代中的鮮活生動(dòng)。正如 Inverness Oran 和來(lái)自New Scotland Pictures 的Charlie Cahill說(shuō)的, “他們才華出眾”且“令人嘆為觀止”。
Precocious Canadian Celtic quartet the Cottars formed in late 2000 on the Nova Scotian island of Cape Breton. Comprised of siblings Ciarán and Fiona MacGillivray and Jimmy and Roseanne MacKenzie, the small collective of 15- to 17-year-old multi-instrumentalists, singers, and step dancers burst onto the traditional music scene in 2001 with nary a glance back. They have shared the stage with and played for everyone from Altan and John McDermott to Wayne Gretzky and Senator Edward Kennedy. Renowned tenor McDermott signed the Cottars in 2002 to his Bunnygee label and released their debut, Made in Cape Breton, with the help of Warner Music Canada. On Fire! followed in 2004 and earned the group an East Coast Music Award in the Roots/Traditional Group Recording category. They inked a deal with Rounder the following year and released Forerunner.

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