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The most beautiful video about Cape Breton Island - 50-minutes - $29.95 . A Seabright Murphy production. |
Cape Breton Island - The Video: Volume OneFinally, the video about Cape Breton you will watch again and again! A Video of Cape Breton Music AND Splendid Scenes - you can watch it or just listen to it. Or listen and dance. Peter Murphy has blended the seagulls and the music, the light off the water and the music, a wonderful reading by Alistair MacLeod from his short story "The Tuning of Perfection" - and once again, the music. This is the video for people who love Cape Breton. This is the video we have all been waiting for. Cape Breton Island-The Video: Volume One is chock-full of Fiddlers & Dancers & Piano Players, including: Ashley MacIsaac, Theresa MacLellan, Buddy MacMaster, Natalie MacMaster, Tracey Dares, Wendy MacIsaac, Howie MacDonald, Alex Francis MacKay - Gaelic Songs sung by Mary Jane Lamond and Jeff MacDonald - Tommy Basker, Rita Joe, The Men Of The Deeps with the Guysborough Schools Choir, and Cape Breton Island in every season! |
For Volume Two, Peter Murphy continued his travels through Cape Breton and created an entirely new video, filled with more music, beauty and magic. From A Visit with fiddler Lee Cremo to Brakin' Tradition, Wendy MacIsaac to Slàinte Mhath, Rodney MacDonald and Glen Graham plus plenty of beautiful stops along the way. There's an amazing performance of "Tullochgorum" by Dwayne Coté, from both a home session and his performance at the Stan Rogers Folk Festival. Estwood Davidson remembers Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald during a kitchen visit, and, again, Cape Breton is there in all its seasons. A lasting pleasure for everyone!
50-minute video $29.95 . A Seabright Murphy production.
Making SteelShot live in Cape Breton. In times of change, it's our business to remember and Making Steel helps us remember the skill and pride of Cape Breton Steel. This 90-minute video shares the Technology and the History and the Culture of Work of those who did the work. Extraordinary, never-to-be-seen-again shots of the blast furnace, cutting steel, the coke ovens-process after process. This is a well-made keeper, educational for sure-and good, impressive entertainment. Technology captures the enormous complexity and awesome beauty of the steel plant prior to 1989. In the Culture of Work section, steelworkers talk about friendship, dangers, pride and frustrations at political and business decisions. And Duncan Wells sings "He Was a Strong Man!" A fine gift, and a video for your own home. A proud 100 years Required viewing by every Cape Bretoner! 60-minute video $19.95 |
A Fiddle Lesson with Natalie MacMasterYour fiddle lesson with Natalie MacMaster begins with an introduction on grace notes and bowing in the Cape Breton Fiddle style, followed by the teaching and perfomance of 5 traditional tunes. With on-screen musical notation, close-ups of the fingerboard, and an 8-page booklet with grace notes, bowing, and 8 traditional tunes. Produced by Paul MacDonald. To Order A Fiddle Lesson with Natalie McMaster 70 minutes $39.95 |
ANOTHER VIDEO, FROM TRACEY DARES:
Cape Breton Celtic Piano Accompaniment
A' Chording to the Tunes:
A Piano Lesson with Tracey Dares
A popular accompanist for Cape Breton fiddlers, pianist Tracey Dares gives you a mini-repertoire of a jig, march, strathspey, & reel. The video includes on-screen musical notations, solo performances by Tracey Dares, and guest appearances by fiddler Carl MacKenzie and piper Paul MacNeil. With 8-page booklet of transcriptions and musical notations for rhythms, chord voicings, bass lines.
Produced by Paul MacDonald.
To Order A'Chording to the Tunes
55 minutes $39.95 Crooked Lake Productions
The story of the two seiges that brought down the mighty Fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island - shot at the world-famous reconstructed fortress.
The narrator takes you carefully through the complex details of the sieges and the fall of Louisbourg. And the armies and civilians, in period costume, help make this both an entertaining and an extremely informative video. The intimacy of daily life and the horror of a world under siege come through. A perfect souvenir of Louisbourg, for families and for schools.
45-minute video $19.95. A National Film Board production.
Carrying on the TraditionsCape Breton Scottish Fiddling TodayCarrying on the Traditions is a good rich sampling of Cape Breton fiddling today to watch or simply listen to... over and over. This video is aimed at the fiddler and the fiddler fanatic. If you want the music and how individual musicians make it, this video is definitely for you. There is very little Cape Breton scenery - but you'll get plenty of music, music, music. How each fiddler holds the violin and the bow, from the seated dancing of Rodney MacDonald, to the barely perceptible movements of Robert Stubbert, to Theresa MacLellan's authority and grace this is what the video provides. No one should miss Brenda Stubbert's daughter Tracey's absolutely marvelous stepdancing. Package includes a very good booklet with and article by Sandy MacIntyre on "Fiddling, Cape Breton Style," an analysis by Kate Dunlay of the fiddlers' individual playing styles, little biographies of each performer, a list of more books and recordings by and about the performers - and of course, a complete list of all the tunes in the order they are played on the video. |
To Order Carrying on the Traditions 90-minute video Fiddler Magazine $49.95 |
Now you can own the finest movie ever made about Cape Breton Island. Winner of 6 Genies and the hearts of millions, Margaret's Museum is the classic story of love, coal life, and rage. Based on Sheldon Currie's extraordinary novel The Glace Bay Miners' Museum (available from Breton Books), the movie stars Helena Bonham-Carter, Kate Nelligan, Clive Russell, and the people and landscapes of Cape Breton Island.
Only $19.95 for the video, or Check out the Book-&-Video Bargain
This is a marvelous, hopeful video for the whole family. And it has a true, important story to tell. Saving the Bald Eagle tells about re-stocking parts of the Eastern United States with Eagles from Cape Breton.
It is a story that took several years to tell, while we see the birds in the nests, men climbing to pick a few to become U.S. citizens, and the young in their new homes. The video is filled with suspense-will the young ones live? Will they learn to fly, catch fish? Will they breed and establish nests? Step by step, you share the joy the naturalists experience as the project develops. This is a very moving presentation.
Saving the Bald Eagle belongs in homes and the classroom anywhere people care about the future of the natural world.
45-minute video $24.95 Folkus Atlantic
This is it the Farewell Performance of Canada's beloved Showband. Here are the songs, the laughs, the joy, tenderness and mayhem that have made The Carleton Showband a household word. This is one you and your friends will treasure for years. A Great Good-Bye!
90-minute video $29.95
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