Shane Cook and Troy MacGillivray to perform locally

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“AlgomaTrad Presents” East Coast Music Award winners Shane Cook and Troy MacGillivray

ALGOMA – AlgomaTrad: The Algoma Traditional Music and Dance Group is pleased to announce two area concerts by Shane Cook and Troy MacGillivray, winners of the 2009 East Coast Music Award for Instrumental Recording of the Year. 

Shane Cook [shown] is a three-time Canadian Grand Master, three-time Canadian Open, and U.S. Open Fiddle Champion and stars with the international touring violin ensemble "Bowfire."

He has performed in the Algoma region with The Brian Pickell Band and as a staff member at the AlgomaTrad Family Camp.

Troy MacGillivray, who grew up in Nova Scotia surrounded by a family of musicians, began to play fiddle and piano and to stepdance at six years of age. 

He has put out five ecordings, including the 2008 East Coast Music award-winning CD "Live at the Music Room."

He also showcased at the Celtic Connections Festival in Scotland, the Celtic Colours International Festival in Cape Breton, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, the Barbados Celtic Festival and the Edinburgh Fiddle Festival.

Shane and Troy will be appearing on Friday, January 27, at 8 p.m. at the Shingwauk Hall, Algoma University, Sault Ste Marie and on Saturday, January 28, 8 p.m. at the Central Algoma Secondary School, Desbarats,. 

Tickets are now available online.

Sault show tickets are also available at Tamarack Health Food and Gifts in the Churchill Plaza, The Country Way on Brock Street, and the George Leach Centre at Algoma U. 

CASS show tickets are available at Ambeault's on St. Joseph Island, at the 17E Trading Post, McClelland's in Desbarats, and Copper Bay Shell in Bruce Mines. 

Tickets for all shows are $20/person, $15/students and seniors, $10/12 and under. 

Reservations can also be made by calling 705-782-4311.

“Individually, these two fiddlers are virtuosic musicians and dynamic performers; together ... they are inspirational.” (Dr. Sherry Johnson - York University, Toronto)

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