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Featured Performers in 2010 At the Friday Celtic Concert and the Saturday Festival: Bonnie Rideout , Scottish fiddle On stages from Scotland’s Edinburgh International Festival to America’s Kennedy Center, Bonnie Rideout’s unique style of Scottish fiddling has charmed audiences across the globe . Bonnie has been featured on the BBC, CBS, NPR’s Performance Today, and Morning Edition. She is also consistently played on NPR’s The Thistle and Shamrock. Bonnie has recorded over thirteen solo albums and appeared as a guest musician on dozens of CDs with Sony, BMG, Time Life, Ryco Disc, Dorian, Rounder Records, and Maggie’s Music. Her A Scottish Christmas CD became a New York Times “Top Ten Holiday Best Selle.r” Its success prompted a touring show that sold out halls across North America for over a decade. Her popular recording, Gi’ Me Elbow Room received the coveted Parent’s Choice Gold Award. She has received numerous Washington Area Music Association “WAMMY” awards every year since 1994. Ms. Rideout is the only American to hold the honor of representing Scottish fiddle music at the prestigious Edinburgh International Festival. She is the first woman to hold the national Scottish fiddle title and the youngest to have garnered the U.S. Championship, winning it for three consecutive years. Bonnie has discontinued competing to become an adjudicator and professional recording artist and has maintained a consistently high profile in the international Celtic music scene. Bonnie has just completed Volume One of a new double CD project focused on the art of fiddle piobaireachd.
MacTalla Mór, Gaelic for Great Echo, is a hard driving, powerful Celtic Roots Band with dance-making, ground-breaking, Celtic music. With Jesse & Levon on bagpipes, drums, flutes & whistles, mom Patty on bodhoran & Celtic drums, Ilana on piano, organ and singing Gaelic songs, and MageErik playing bass and performing magic, this family band creates a Celtic-Roots musical extravaganza at festivals and concerts throughout North America--from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and Central Park in New York, to Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina and The Clearwater Hudson River Revival--as well as on ABC, CBS, NBC and ESPN TV--MacTalla Mór is taking America by storm! Christina, an award-winning singer/songwriter from Glasgow, Scotland with Irish and Scottish parentage, has sung before live audiences most of her life. Her repertoire is beautifully versatile and features original, contemporary and traditional folk songs from Ireland, Scotland and America. She has opened for and performed on stage with great acts such as The Chieftains, Charlie Byrd, Cherish the Ladies, Tommy Makem, Gene Vincent, and Seven Nations. In 2007, she was awarded a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award Recipient for Music Composition. Our family owned and operated farm is nestled in the Allegheny foothills of scenic and historic Bedford County. The use of trained and people-friendly dogs (Border Collies for herding and Great Pyrenees as guards) is an important part of our livestock management practices. The Border Collies, using their inherited working ability, enable us to move our sheep about the farm. The Great Pyrenees, by living in the pastures, protect the sheep from coyotes, domestic dogs, bears, and large cats which can wreak havoc on defenseless sheep.
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