Admission is by donation to the Food Bank.

Show starts at 7:30 pm

Doors 7:00 pm

Show: 7:30 pm
Tickets: $15  available at Camrose United Church office 780-672-2176

Andy Donnelly, the host of CKUA’s Celtic Show and tireless ambassador for Celtic music, welcomed and warmed us all up with his great humour and fun. Thanks Andy!! Speaking of the mighty CKUA, we found out last week that our new CD was #7 on CKUA’s top 30 Chart for the two weeks ending January 22, 2011!! What a thrill and an honour! Check it out at www.ckua.com under Charts.

Speaking of CKUA, we would also like to thank CKUA host Peter North for the lovely piece he did on Celtara in his blog titled “The Blues and the Celts”. If you’d like to read the piece, go to www.ckua.com – it is archived at the end of the current blog.

Steve Schroeter gave us wonderful sound in Muttart Hall on January 22. Some comments we heard were - “I could hear each of you clearly and it was all so well balanced”. “The volume and the mix was perfect.” “Kudos to your sound mixer.”  Thank-you Steve! Thanks again to Jill Wawryko and Andrew Nickerson who did all the design work. In Peter North’s words, “…the graphic art direction and layout of the package is stunning.”  We agree.

What’s up next for this little indie Canadian Celtic Band? Lots! We’ll be touring our home province of Alberta in mini-tours - two or three concerts a weekend at a time in communities that are within a couple of hundred kilometres of each other. Watch out for us in your community in the next few months. In fact, if you have an idea about a concert series or community hall, house concert or theatre that you would like to see us play, please email us through the contact button on the left. As well, check us out on our facebook and myspace links to the left. Cheers!

The Diamond is a ship me lads, for the Davis Strait we’re bound,

The quay it is all garnished with the bonny lasses ‘round,

Captain Thompson gives the order to sail the ocean wide,

Where the sun it never sets me lads, nor darkness dims the sky.

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And it’s cheer up me lads, let your hearts never fail,

For the bonnie ship, The Diamond, goes a fishin’ for the whale.

Along the quay at Peterhead, the lassies stand around,

With their shawls all pulled around them and the salt tears runnin’ down,

Don’t you weep my bonnie wee lass, though you be left behind,

For the rose will grow on Greenland’s ice before we change our mind.

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Here’s a health to the Resolution, likewise the Eliza Swann,

Three cheers for the Battler of Montrose and The Diamond ship of fame,

We wear the trousers of the white and the jackets of the blue,

When we get back to Peterhead, we’ll see our sweethearts now.

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It’ll be bright both day and night, when the Greenland lads come home,

Our ship filled up with oil me lads, and money to our name.

We’ll make the cradles for to rock, and the blankets for to tear,

And every lass in Peterhead singing now, “hushaby my dear”.

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STILL A TALE TO TELL – Bonnie Gregory

He stood there on solid ground, cold and still, he made not a sound

He watched her walk away again, he could not comprehend

All the words of love she’d said, all the times she’d held him then

Gone like all the ash she’d burned, like nothing in the wind.

Eight years that little patch of land grew marigold and lilac stand

Eight years he kept that cabin snug through cold and wind and snow

Eight long years he lived his life, holding on without his wife

His heart a tiny flick of flame burned low as it could go.

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Hang on, you carry on

You know there’s still a tale to tell

Too many pages still unfurled

Hang on, you carry on

The sound of love’s not far away

It’s beat, the drum, will mark your way.

Twas on a sunny autumn day, new love came at last to stay

A brown-haired girl with eyes like sky, and he thought to ask her why

Maybe life for some of us has more than one true love

All your pain and sorrow now becomes the ground where new love grows.

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LORD CAMERON’S DAUGHTER – Bonnie Gregory

My name is Bill Donald and I’m a stranger to you

I have travelled this country from the age of twelve years

My brother was elder, he inherited all

Leaving me to adventure and find my own way.

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Meet me in the garden, I’ll love only you

We’ll share wishes and kisses and promises too

Meet me in the garden, your true love I’ll be

Don’t tell your mother, she’d never agree.

I found work on the great ships and I learned many things

But the playing and the singing full many did please

I played for fine ladies and royalty too

Till I find myself here now, well I’m playing for you.

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Oh the lassies, fine lassies, so many I’ve seen

But none who could smile like my Jenny for me

Lord Cameron’s daughter, shame if he doesn’t know

Come away with me Jenny and we’ll sail fore the snow.

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When we reach that far shore I can own my own land

And my plaid I will lay down to cover our bed

My cap it will hang from the back of my head

And the songs of Lord Cameron, I’ll nae sing them again.

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FOLLOW THE HERON – Karine Polwart, Bay Songs Ltd.

The back of the winter is broken, and light lingers long by the door,

And the seeds of the summer have spoken in gowans that bloom on the shore.

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By night and day we’ll sport and we’ll play

And delight as the dawn dances over the bay,

Sleep blows the breath of the morning away,

And we follow the heron home.

In darkness we cradled our sorrows, and stoked all our fires with fear,

And now these bones that lie empty and hollow, are ready for gladness to cheer.

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So long may you sing of the salmon, and the snow-scented sounds of your home,

While the north wind delivers its sermon, all ice and salt-water and stone.

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P IS FOR PADDY – traditional

As I roved out upon a May morn, to take a pleasant walk,

I sat myself down by an old stone wall, to hear two lovers talk,

To hear two lovers talk, me boys, and hear what they might say

That I might learn a little about love, before my dying day.

Well come and sit beside me love, on the dewy grass so green,

It’s a long three-quarter’s of a year or more, that you and I have been,

That together we have been, he cried, together we have been,

It’s almost been a year my love, that you and I have seen

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P stands for Paddy I suppose, J for my love John

And the W stands for false Willy-O, but Johnny is the fairest man,

Johnny is the fairest man, she cried, Johnny is the fairest man,

O I don’t care what anybody says, my Johnny is the fairest man.

No I won’t sit beside you love, now or at any other time,

I hear you love another pretty maid, and your heart’s no longer mine

Your heart’s no longer mine, she cried, your heart’s no longer mine

I hear you love another pretty maid, and your heart’s no longer mine

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Oh I will climb the highest tree, and rob the little bird’s nest

And I will bring whatever I find to the arms that I love best,

To the arms that I love best she cried, the one I love the best,

Oh I will bring whatever I find to the one that I love best.

And when your heart was mine, she said, and your head lay on my breast,

You made me believe, with all your lies that the sun would rise in the west

The sun would rise in the west, she cried, and I’ve heard all the rest,

You made me believe with all your lies the sun would rise in the west.

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