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Vol. 63, Issue 71
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PHOTO COURTESY SO PLAID MUSIC
Ashley MacIsaac is playing at the Key City Theatre in Cranbrook Wednesday, April 16.
PHOTOS COURTESY GERALD HUDSON
NOW THAT’S A POTHOLE: The ground literally gave way beneath the wheels of EFM Towing Thursday evening up on the 600 block of 15th Avenue South in Cranbrook. A Freightliner truck came to the rescue, and got the unit back to terra firma. There were no details available on damage to the truck, but the hole in the road is surely a good candidate for the King of Cranbrook Potholes.
MacIsaac’s musings
The master of the fiery fiddle talks about Celtic music, Rock music, fiddle culture and his upcoming Cranbrook concert BARRY COULTER
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revolutionary fiddle player is touching down in Cranbrook on Wednesday — expect the Key City Theatre to be rocking. Ashley MacIsaac is arguably the greatest exporter of the music of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, a small region that punches way above its musical weight. But over a 20-plus year career, he has taken traditional fiddle playing and incorporated it into the most modern of styles — hip-hop, rock,
electronica — thus helping reinvent the traditional genre. MacIsaac called up the Daily Townsman last week for a conversation. The subject was the fiddle. “My mission was never to push the fiddle as a rock instrument,” he said when I asked him. “Because I always wanted to be a guitar player, like every other kid, I suppose. But I did have a mission to push my music itself, not necessarily the culture, I suppose, of Cape Breton, where I grew up.”
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