The 2009 summer concert season has been wonderful! Dal and Anya are now heading back to the science department of Dalhousie University, while Kassia and Liam will be scrutinizing small town public school. The band is enthusiastic about their plans for another album, to be released next year. This new pop/folk album will feature modern interpretations of intriguing folk song fragments, while also bringing out Drumlin's own thoughts and stories in original compositions.
Photo: A Chen Meng Photo
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Drumlin is excited be heading back to Feswick Productions over the next few months to work on their new material!
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Photo: A Chen Meng Photo
Drumlin Featured in the August 2009 edition of Capital News Australia!
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India Intrigued by Canada’s East Coat Sound!
Drumlin has been selected to be featured on the W.O.A Records India Tour 2009 Compilation CD. This CD will be promoted worldwide with TV, Radio and Press support and will be available worldwide via retail and online.
Drumlin has also invited to perform at the W.O.A Music Festival this year in Goa on the 31st of October 2009.
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Music Nova Scotia Week!
Don't miss this chance to see Drumlin perform LIVE during this year's festivities!
Drumlin Will Be Showcasing at NSMW 09!
Friday, November 6th, in Yarmouth, NS.
Drumlin has enjoyed performing at events across the province this summer!
Four Fathers Festival
Drumlin enjoyed celebrating the second annual Four Fathers Festival in Amherst, NS.
Privateer Days Privateer days has always been one of Drumlin’s summer favorites, in Liverpool, NS.
Happy Birthday Middleton!
Drumlin performing at Middleton's Centennial Celebration
Tall Ships in Lunenburg
Drumlin felt right at home performing Nova Scotia Sea Shanties on the Lunenburg waterfront, surrounded by spectacular tall ships.
June 5th, 2009
RECENT APPEARANCES
Drumlin performed their repertoire of Maritime tunes to top off the perfect world-famous Maritime experience! Students from Western Canada enjoyed a fabulous World Famous Lobster Dinner (prepared by the Shore Club, in Hubbards, Nova Scotia) and enjoyed listening to Nova Scotia Heritage Tunes performed by Drumlin. Many of these students were able to bring a little bit of Nova Scotia home, leaving the party with tin whistles and Drumlin’s latest international award winning recording Mackerel Skies.
It was a kitchen party at its best!
“I just wanted to thank you very much for performing for the Brandon University Symphonic Band last week. I just finished my first year as a French Horn performance major, and your performance was definitely a highlight of the trip. I know we all enjoyed your concert, and your music touched me very much. I bought your CD and I'm so thrilled with it! I've been listening to it over and over since I got back to Brandon. I've been letting all my friends/family know about Drumlin!
Thanks again for a fantastic and inspirational performance :)
Your music fills me with such hope and joy!”
Holly Bryan
INTERNATIONAL SEAS
“Mackerel Skies” hit the airwaves this April in Paris, France on Radio Libertaire 89.4 with Thierry Laplaud and "Folk à Lier".
...and in the United Kingdom on BBC Essex with host Tom Foster
... and also in Northern Ireland on Celtic Roots Radio with host Raymond McCullough
Back in the Studio!
Drumlin has been spotted making some waves in Liverpool, Nova
Scotia! They visited Tim Feswick of Feswick Productions at his
private and picturesque gem of a recording studio balanced on the shores of
Broad River, instruments in tow! Could this be the beginning of
another album? Keep posted for details!
March 13th, 2009
QCCR Radio Interview
Thank you Kimberly Sinclair and QCCR radio!
March 5th, 2009
Get your issue of the latest Music East Magazine for a feature on our own DRUMLIN. :^)
Drumlin Receives International Award!
Drumlin’s latest release ‘Mackerel Skies’ was awarded the highly competitive and prestigious 2009 An’R Award of Excellence. This is a worldwide award that is an overall endorsement to the artist's combined achievement in today's complex industry disciplines including: concept, music, design, and promotion. The An’R Award of Excellence recognizes an exceptional production in which the artist has given their soul and talents for the continued sake of, The Music Album, consequently producing one of the best CD’s in the world. Only eight awards were issued in 2009 from a total of nearly 2000 international submissions.
"We would like to acknowledge the outstanding creative work of producer Tim Feswick, designer Jud Hayes, photographer Scott Munn and folklorist Helen Creighton (1899-1998). The An'R Award of Excellence recognizes all aspects of 'Mackerel Skies' which was the work of a skilled and dedicated team."
~Drumlin
Drumlin makes a guest appearance on Faded Blue’s new album
Drumlin’s poignant cello and violin sounds were featured on the track "If Everybody Believes" on Faded Blue’s latest album. Faded Blue is receiving great reviews! Other tracks feature JP Cormier's fiddle and Ian Sherwood's sax.
Drumlin is pleased to be working with A&R Select based in West Hollywood, CA for music placement and publishing.
December 19th, 2008
Mike FM: Emerging Artist Series
Dal had a great time being interviewed by engaging show-host Sarah Pearson of the Emerging Artist Series on Montreal's Mike FM radio, 105.1 FM. Every week, Sarah interviews a local (Canadian) unsigned artist and plays one of their tracks. The interview is aired on Friday at 9:50am, and the song is promoted throughout the week by other hosts. MIKE FM is one of the only commercial radio stations in Canada committed to playing emerging Canadian talent!
Thank you Sarah Pearson and Mike FM, Montreal!
December 11th, 2008
Drumlin’s ‘Stormy Weather Boys’ music video is making some waves with a jolly nor’East’r Coast Music Award Nomination!
‘Stormy Weather Boys’ is nominated for the Star Style Creative Works Video of the Year.
‘Stormy Weather Boys’ was filmed at ‘Evergreen House’ home of the Dartmouth Heritage Museum.
“We deeply appreciate the gifted work of the film crew. We are also thankful for the generosity and guidance provided by Norwood Cheek and the 28th Atlantic Film Festival. The opportunity given to us through the 28th Atlantic Film Festival 10x10 Music Video Program has been substantial, irreplaceable, and inspiring.”
Dal, Anya, Kassia, and Liam Gilbert.
December 7th, 2008
My Irish Girl sets the mood
The instrumental version of ‘My Irish Girl’ has been chosen to set the mood for the www.littlehouseathuntspoint.ca website. Thank you Shelley Thompson! Your little house at Hunts Point is cozy and wonderful. It is the perfect retreat!
December 5th, 2008
‘Let Go Your Bowline’ is going to be featured on a CD of images from a recent Atlantic 911 conference. The CD will be sent to the 911 centres of the Atlantic region.
November 29th, 2008
ARTS & LIFE
The Chronicle Herald
Brimming with invention
Drumlin’s Mackerel Skies updates decades-old songs from Creighton collection
By STEPHEN COOKE Entertainment Reporter
SOUTH SHORE folk quartet Drumlin certainly brings a youthful energy to its versions of traditional tunes, so it was a treat to see the siblings from Bridgewater’s Gilbert family honoured with a nomination for the Canadian Folk Music Awards, which will be handed out tonight in St. John’s.
Sharing the young performer of the year category with another Nova Scotia performer —Cape Breton fiddler Chrissy Crowley — Drumlin is an apt choice for its latest CD Mackerel Skies, filled with fresh updates of decades-old songs from the Helen Creighton collection.
Other Nova Scotia nominees for this weekend’s CFMAs include Antigonish pianist/fiddler Troy MacGillivray with three nods, Antigonish-bred Mary Beth Carty for traditional singer and Sons of Maxwell’s Dave Carroll for contemporary singer.
For singer and multi-instrumentalist Anya Gilbert, the nomination isn’t just a feather in the band’s cap, it’s also an opportunity to finally travel to Canada’s easternmost city.
'We’re so excited about it!' enthuses the 17-year-old Park View Education Centre student from her home in Bridgewater. 'Dal, my older brother and I are flying out for the awards. The nomination kind of came out of the blue, I guess with Drumlin we’ve just kind of gone wherever the wind takes us.
'We just had a video made as part of the Atlantic Film Festival and now we’re going to Newfoundland for the first time, so it’s taking us to some pretty exciting places.'
The video clip in question is for the song Stormy Weather Boys, which was produced as part of the Atlantic Film Festival’s 10 X 10 program, teaming up young musical acts and local filmmakers to make a musical short over the span of a few days.
Stormy Weather Boys is a stunning video — viewable on the band’s website, www.drumlin.ca — shot by filmmaker Joel Mackenzie at folklorist Creighton’s Evergreen House in Dartmouth. The production bears a professional sheen that belies its limited production timeframe.
'It was a lot of fun, and we only had a day to film it,' says Gilbert. 'We didn’t know what song we’d be doing or who the director would be, we just picked the location and showed up on the day to see what would happen.
'It started out as a total mystery to us, so we went in with open minds and it all seemed to work out wonderfully.'
Filming in Creighton’s own house literally brought the whole project home, considering how it was her vast treasury of songs collected all over the East Coast that provided the foundation for Mackerel Skies.
'It’s so interesting to think that these songs are actual history,' says Gilbert. 'This is how people recorded their history, especially when they couldn’t read or write, they passed along stories and knowledge from the past in song.
'These songs are often true stories from hundreds of years ago, some of them we don’t know how old they are, but they’re still fascinating.'
The songs may be old, but Drumlin’s approach to them brims with invention, working with producer Tim Feswick to combine elements of folk and pop and give these tales of bold seafarers and mourning maids a new lease on life with a broad range of sounds.
'We started out with My Irish Girl, and that is really traditional. We didn’t branch out with any out-of-the-ordinary, un-folky things for that song. But as we did more songs, we got more into experimenting with different flavours and different instruments.
'We got a little more adventurous as the recording worked itself out; we opened our minds to a whole bunch of different genres and sounds, it was really fun.'
Gilbert says she and her siblings hope to continue having fun making music for years to come, although right now education comes first as singer-guitarist Dal is in a first-year physics student at Dalhousie, younger sister and cellist-singer Kassia is being homeschooled while the youngest, 10-year-old drummer Liam, is in French immersion at Bridgewater Elementary School.
'It’s getting a bit harder as we get older, because we have to make some pretty concrete decisions about our individual futures as well as deciding where we want to be in five years,' she says.
''I’m really excited to see where the music will go . . . I really would like to make music for the rest of my life.'
November 28th, 2008
Pentz Elementary School is bursting forth with musical talent!
November 4th, 2008
Drumlin's first US review...on election day!
Damn this is good! The new CD from Drumlin is worth paying for! You all know how rarely I gush about anything. Drumlin is a band from Nova Scotia comprised of 4 family members, only one of who is over 18 years (I believe). Mackerel Skies, their disc, is a collection of songs written by Nova Scotian songwriters over the last century, and collected by folk-archivist Helen Creighton. This ambitious disc manages to present these folk songs with modern production that makes them fresh and listenable. In fact, some are quite danceable.
Well packaged in eco-friendly materials, clad in browns with traditional instruments on the cover, the CD is a wealth of interesting tidbits about Ms. Creighton, Nova Scotian history, and the Gaelic origins of the band's name. Yet, the production by Tim Feswick is a masterful preservation of the traditional element of the songs combined with modern instruments, sonic signature, and arrangement. The songs are obviously traditional in subject - quite a bit about fish and fishing - and yet the band evokes Toad The Wet Sprocket, The Proclaimers, and even occasionally The Monkees (go figure). Fellow Nova Scotian rockers April Wine come to mind on the album closer, Homeward Bound.
Standout tracks include Sailor Boy, Let Go Your Bowline, The Twa Brothers, and Silvy. I guess I'm just a sucker for a good song - modern arrangement just turns my head. Go buy this disc!
Jordan Tishler (Digital Bear Entertainment) is a veteran producer, mix engineer, artist developer and music publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, US.
October 16th, 2008
The Canadian Folk Music Awards St John's NL
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Founded in 2005, the Canadian Folk Music Awards recognize Canada's outstanding writers, producers and performers of folk music, and the artists who are expanding the genre in innovative and exciting ways.
The fourth annual Canadian Folk Music gala will take place at the Arts & Cultural Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland. The awards ceremony and live music will be followed by a reception.
Drumlin and their new album Mackerel Skies has been nominated in the 'Young Performer of the Year' category.
The Ancestry in Song Concert
Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. St. Matthews United Church, 1479 Barrington Street, Halifax.
Inspired by the Ancestry in Song Project presented at the 2000 Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival, this concert features traditional songs from the six major cultural groups represented by the Helen Creighton collection plus contemporary tradition-based songs from each cultural group. The six groups of peoples represented are Mi'kmaq, Acadian, Anglo, African Nova Scotian, Celtic/Gaelic and German. Performers invited to perform at this concert are: Clary Croft, host and representing the German heritage; Cathy Martin, Mi'kmaq film maker and elder; Cindy Campbell, storyteller and traditional singer with PEI roots; Melanie Ross, educator, performer and specialist in the folk song tradition of the Miramichi region in New Brunswick as collected by Louise Manny; Ron Bourgeois, Acadian singer and award winning song writer; Margo Carruthers, traditional singer and Gaelic recording artist; and Ann Johnson-MacDonald, African Nova Scotian educator and singer. The evening will also feature Drumlin and their new album Mackerel Skies made up entirely of songs from the Creighton collection! Portions of the concert will be recorded for CBC radio.
September 21st, 2008
Music Video
Film maker Joel Mackenzie created our first music video. Needless to say we're very very excited! We've got it on YouTube for now, which is not necessarily the best quality, but we're working on getting a higher quality quicktime file posted here on our website ASAP.
For now check out the YouTube video and let us know what you think:
STORMY WEATHER BOYS
August 29th, 2008
Upper Clements Park - August 8th & 22nd
What a great day! There is so much fun stuff to do at Upper Clements Park. We were scheduled to perform three sets; one at 1:00 pm, another at 3:00 pm and the last at 6:00 pm. Between sets, we had a super time checking out everything the park has to offer; laser tag, a roller-coaster, a water slide, cool animals, and much, much more!
The park band Tree-o was as fun as ever, and we had a great time performing "Farewell to Nova Scotia" with them during our 6:00 pm performance. Close to the end of the day, while we were right in the middle of a song, a very lethal-looking bug landed on Kassia's cello; we had never seen anything like it! It was humongous, and consisted mostly of a long, sharp-looking stinger. Luckily everything worked out alright, as Dal managed to flick it off Kassia's cello before any major damage was done.
We hope to make it back to Upper Clements Park soon!
Riverfest - August 9
Thank you to our friends who came out to hear the music that rocked the bush at Riverfest 2008!
On the way to Riverfest, we drove through a maze of long and winding dirt roads until we thought we might be getting close to our destination. All of a sudden we saw a bunch of cars, tents, and a stage set up in the middle of a big field. What a fun place to perform, next to an old house in the middle of a field out in the woods! The field belongs to Jonathan Crouse who works for the local radio station, CKBW. The cows that usually reside in the field were pastured down the hill a bit, and you could sometimes see them down there rockin' out to the tunes!
Dal Gilbert
Drumlin
Time to Renew Your Library Card!
Drumlin's latest release Mackerel Skies is being circulated by the Nova Scotia Provincial Library to all the province's Public Libraries.
August 11th, 2008
CBC DISTRIBUTES MACKEREL SKIES
“Here in Music Resources, we try to keep our ears open for new recordings by Canadian artists so that we can keep the CBC radio stations across the country equipped with high quality Canadian music and meet and exceed our 50% Canadian content requirement. Your record is just the kind of thing we like.”
- Music Resources department of CBC Radio
CBC Radio will be distributing “Mackerel Skies” to all of the CBC radio stations across the country! We're very excited and want to say thank you so much to everyone at CBC for giving our young band a much appreciated boost.
July 30th, 2008
Performing at Founders Day and the Authentic18th Century Governor’s Ball and Banquet was
quite extraordinary, and we had a blast! In 1783, about 3000 English Loyalists fleeing
revolution in the United States arrived in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, on ships from New York
City. Founders Day is a celebration of the day the Governor landed on the shores of
Shelburne and renamed the town.
We were very excited about this performance because we planned to dress in period
costumes; hoop skirts, knickers, corsets and all. Kassia and I chose the costumes about
one week in advance, and we chose a nice suit for Dal to wear because he couldn’t make it
to the costume-finding session. We were in the van, half-way to our destination with Dal
all decked out in his terrific, blue, 18th century suit, when he had a sudden flashback
from high school history class. He remembered that the Loyalists were English, and that
the English wore red suits, not blue suits. The French wore blue suits, and we all know
that the English and French did not get along too well during the 18th century. He was
mortified! Would he be a French man walking in a sea of red English Loyalists? Evidently
color doesn’t matter as much in the 21st century as it did in the 18th century, because
to Dal’s relief, the ‘governor’ at the ball was wearing a blue suit too!
We also performed under the canopy of a big, Tudor-style stilted building. This building
was spectacular because of the unique fact that the entire lower half of the building was
open, and the top half looked just like a regular house! The building had been built for
filming the movie “The Scarlett Letter” (1995) starring Demi Moore, Robert Duvall and
Gary Oldman.
We had a great time performing in Shelburne! We noticed that the people of Shelburne are
always ready to celebrate and have a good time.
Anya
July 21th, 2008
Performing at the ‘Concert on the Commons Series’ in Rothesay, New Brunswick was quite an adventure. We left Bridgewater around 11:00am with our van packed full of our gear; guitars, violins, a cello, drums, and a big cooler full of grapes and sandwich ingredients. We had gotten up early to get ready for the trip, so we had eaten breakfast quite early, and around 11:30am we all started to get hungry again. We decided to make sandwiches on the road, but we encountered a problem: there were two guitars on top of the cooler, and in such a small and crowded space there was no way to shift the guitars to get at the food. We debated pulling over to find a nice grassy place to have a picnic, but decided against it because we didn’t want to be late. About three hours later (by this point we were very hungry) we realized that we had about an hour to spare, so we ended up pulling over and having some lunch.
In about half an hour we were back on the road with two more hours left to go. We plugged in some good tunes to listen to and opened up all the windows. It was a nice day for driving: the sky was blue and filled with fluffy white clouds and it wasn’t too hot, although it was a bit windy. Apparently a local bumblebee also found it to be a bit too windy, so it decided to take refuge in our van. Dal suddenly felt something crawling on his leg, so he looked down and saw this bumblebee. We haven’t had much experience dealing with bumblebees in cars while travelling on a highway, so we weren’t quite sure what to do. If he flicked it off his leg in the van, it would just become angry and attack one of us. Eventually we ended up pulling over so he could flick the bumblebee out the door over a cliff. He seemed quite perturbed, and after he flicked it off he told us “It was posing to sting me”.
We managed to finish the rest of the trip without making any more stops. We had a wonderful time performing at the Rothesay Commons, and we enjoyed visiting New Brunswick. We finished our performance and were all packed to go by 9:00pm. We set out on our long drive home armed with coffee.
The Mosher-Banfield Wedding
The Mosher-Banfield wedding was delightful! It was a great idea to have the ceremony outside near the coast; we always enjoy playing music by the ocean! The wedding tent was located at the very end of an expansive green lawn. This lawn impressed us very much, because the stifling heat which was present for about five days leading up to the wedding caused many lawns to turn a parched yellowish color. Not this lawn, apparently.
There are many winding roads in rural Nova Scotia, and if one daydreams for just a second while driving, one may find himself hopelessly far off the beaten path. We were all determined to arrive at the wedding without having taken one of our infamous 'detours' across some mysterious dirt road. We were thrilled to see that the whole route to the location of the wedding was marked with fluorescent orange arrow-shaped markers saying "The Mosher Wedding". These arrows were exceptionally helpful.
Congratulations to the new married couple!
June 9th-12th, 2008
The Halifax Emergency Management Office hosted the bi-annual conference of the International Emergency Management Group (IEMG) June 9 to 12 in Halifax. The conference brought together top emergency management officials from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York. Drumlin helped to send these Eastern Seaboard Masters of Disaster home with broad smiles, warm hearts, and taste of Nova Scotia’s finest heritage music! ‘Stormy Weather Boys’, ‘Silvy’ and ‘Let Go Your Bowline’, three tracks from Drumlin’s new release, Mackerel Skies, were chosen to include on USB sticks and given out to the delegates.
Drumlin could solidly support the green theme of this important conference as Mackerel Skies is an environmentally friendly CD which boasts a 100% recycled plastic tray, FSC certified paper, vegetable and soya based inks, and a low carbon footprint.
May 31st, 2008
Atlantic Airwaves, CBC Radio One, every Saturday afternoon from 5:05 to 6:00 p.m. (AT) ‘opened’ on Saturday, May 31st with the Mackerel Skies opening track 'I Dyed My Petticoat Red'.
“I absolutely love playing lead violin, mandolin, and tin whistle for Drumlin, but I am a shy vocalist. I enjoy singing harmonies, and I wasn’t planning on singing lead vocals on any of the songs on Mackerel Skies.
One snowy day at Feswick Productions, someone said, “Just for fun, sing that petticoat song that you’ve being working on.” So I did, just once. That one take ended up being the opening track for Mackerel Skies.
I really like the song ‘I Dyed My Petticoat Red’. It seems to reflect another view on war. Wars must have been a great mystery for people who lived in isolated places and didn’t have immediate access to newspapers and other forms of media. The only fact known to be true was that many young men left…and never came back. The song ‘I Dyed My Petticoat Red’ is from the perspective of a teenage girl whose love has just left for war, and although he has just left, she seems to have lost all hope that he will ever come back. I know that the story in this song is most likely a true story, and although I have always been opposed to war, this song has made me resent it even more.”
-Anya Gilbert
May 28th, 2008
A Scintillating Kitchen Party Comes to the Oldest Operating Inn in Nova Scotia!
June 7, 2008 6:00 PM
DRUMLIN is having a Mackerel Skies CD Release Party at the gorgeous and cozy Fairview Inn! Soft seats will be set up in a theatre atmosphere while two sumptuous restaurants and a charming parlor/pub will be in full service. CKBW’s Jonathan Crouse will be the emcee, Antonio Marzetti, Nova Scotia’s yo-yo champion, will captivate people of all ages with his amazing tricks as the opening act, and Drumlin will get the toes tapping and ears tuned to some of Nova Scotia’s finest heritage music.
Tickets are available at the Fairview Inn (1-800-725-8732). A special pre-concert will start on the front porch at 5:30 pm featuring some of the South Shore’s engaging and talented young musicians. They are sure to warm hearts and spark smiles.
May 14th, 2008
Welcome to DRUMLIN's brand new website. Mackerel Skies is ready for release and we have booked a series of shows thru Atlantic Canada to celebrate the album's release. Please jump over to the performances page to check out where we'll be playing.
Hope to see you soon!
April 19th, 2008
Drumlin performed with Antonio Marzetti, Nova Scotia’s yo-yo champion at this year’s South Shore Knowledge Festival. This exciting collaboration produced a first place award for this unique and highly entertaining collaboration of instrument strings and yo-yo strings!
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Drumlin Featured in the August 2009 edition of Capital News Australia!
Drumlin makes a guest appearance on Faded Blue’s new album
Francis’s debut CD “Come on with me” offers songs about life. “It’s easy to write those,” says Arsenault.
“LITTLE BONES”
Damn this is good! The new CD from Drumlin is worth paying for! You all know how rarely I gush about anything. Drumlin is a band from Nova Scotia comprised of 4 family members, only one of who is over 18 years (I believe). Mackerel Skies, their disc, is a collection of songs written by Nova Scotian songwriters over the last century, and collected by folk-archivist Helen Creighton. This ambitious disc manages to present these folk songs with modern production that makes them fresh and listenable. In fact, some are quite danceable.
Well packaged in eco-friendly materials, clad in browns with traditional instruments on the cover, the CD is a wealth of interesting tidbits about Ms. Creighton, Nova Scotian history, and the Gaelic origins of the band's name. Yet, the production by Tim Feswick is a masterful preservation of the traditional element of the songs combined with modern instruments, sonic signature, and arrangement. The songs are obviously traditional in subject - quite a bit about fish and fishing - and yet the band evokes Toad The Wet Sprocket, The Proclaimers, and even occasionally The Monkees (go figure). Fellow Nova Scotian rockers April Wine come to mind on the album closer, Homeward Bound.
Founded in 2005, the Canadian Folk Music Awards recognize Canada's outstanding writers, producers and performers of folk music, and the artists who are expanding the genre in innovative and exciting ways.
St. Matthews United Church, 1479 Barrington Street, Halifax.
Atlantic Airwaves, CBC Radio One, every Saturday afternoon from 5:05 to 6:00 p.m. (AT) ‘opened’ on Saturday, May 31st with the Mackerel Skies opening track 'I Dyed My Petticoat Red'.
DRUMLIN is having a Mackerel Skies CD Release Party at the gorgeous and cozy Fairview Inn! Soft seats will be set up in a theatre atmosphere while two sumptuous restaurants and a charming parlor/pub will be in full service. CKBW’s Jonathan Crouse will be the emcee, Antonio Marzetti, Nova Scotia’s yo-yo champion, will captivate people of all ages with his amazing tricks as the opening act, and Drumlin will get the toes tapping and ears tuned to some of Nova Scotia’s finest heritage music.
Drumlin performed with Antonio Marzetti, Nova Scotia’s yo-yo champion at this year’s South Shore Knowledge Festival. This exciting collaboration produced a first place award for this unique and highly entertaining collaboration of instrument strings and yo-yo strings!
