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Glenelg The Glenelg Full Moon Country Dance Band has been performing traditional Irish and North American acoustic dance music together since 1991. Organized informally at first for social dances at the Glenelg Township Hall, the group has since performed at countless concerts and ceili and social dances at barns and halls and on streets, in fields and parks and at arenas and malls throughout Grey-Bruce and across Southern Ontario. Glenelg has performed at Summerfolk in Owen Sound, the Home County Folk Festival in London and other folk and celtic music festivals on many occasions, including the Mariposa Folk Festival and Collingwood Celtic Continuum. For a dozen years the group was a mainstay at the Grey County Museum's now-defunct Pratie Oaten Irish festival and has performed at the related Owen Sound Celtic Festival and regularly at the museum for special events. Glenelg is one of the very few traditional music groups to have been invited every year to perform at the Goderich Celtic Roots festival since it began in 1993. It's now considered to be among North America's premier traditional music events. The Glenelg collective performs for dance workshops, concerts and routinely anchors with friends and musical guests the festival's mammoth family social farewell dance which traditionally closes the festival on Sunday night. Dan McGee, flute and five string banjo, Will Henry, fiddle, mandolin and octave mandolin and Michael O'Kelly, tinwhistle, flute and button accordian, have been with the band since Glenelg's inception. They are joined regularly now by Lynda Henry, on anglo concertina, Bob Robins, on mandolin, tenor banjo, guitar and bazouki, Maureen Keating, piano, and Frank Francalanza, mandolin, percussive dance and fancy footwork, bodhran, bones, and assorted hand drums. |
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