WSP Welcomes Two New Groups with Lovely Ladies
and a band of Gentlemen (with or without the ducks)

Cassie and Maggie MacDonald

Fun, exciting, charming and talented Cassie and Maggie MacDonald are a dynamic Celtic sister duo who have emerged onto the  music scene  as the ones to watch.
Born in Halifax, with strong roots in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, the girls have been wowing   audiences across Canada with their unique blend of original and traditional Celtic music. Cassie’s fiddle playing has been described  as “sweet and elegant with just the right amount of raw power” while Maggie’s piano playing has an irresistible drive that will leave  your foot incapable of staying still and complements Cassie’s playing perfectly. Together these delightful sisters bring more than your   average fiddle and piano duo; Cassie is an award winning highland and step dancer and also sings harmony for Maggie. In addition    to her piano playing, Maggie sings lead, plays guitar, banjo, accordion and is also an accomplished step dancer.

Long Time Court Take four individually accomplished traditional musicians and singers with fre sh attitudes. Combine them, and you have the rich, soaring four-part vocal arrangements and high energy dance tunes that are Long Time Courting. Sarah Blair on fiddle/vocals, Liz Simmons on guitar/vocals, Shannon Heaton on flute/vocals, an d Ariel Friedmanon cello/vocals, this Boston-based band shares a love of traditional Irish, Scottish and American folk music as well as contemporary material. They bring elements of these various genres to their repertoire in a way that is sea mlessly innovative, inventively arranged, and skillfully rendered..                                                      

Sprag Session (formerly the Colin Grant Band) Lingering somewhere amidst the rich, soulful roots of traditional Cape Breton music and the grooves of a thousand branches of rock and funk, Sprag Session has found an open ear in everyone from indie scenesters to blue-haired bingo stampers.