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Celtara

New name, new CD...new world celtic music

About Me

Interview on CBC!!!
Tami and Bonnie went into CBC and did an interview with Ron Wilson for the morning show. You can listen here:http://www.cbc.ca/edmontonam/edpod.html

It all started years and years ago, when we all discovered the delights of celtic music in our separate ways. Andy started out playing in Germany before he even moved here, the rest of us here in Canada. We met each other in sessions, (remember that famous one at Sherlock Holme's on Thursday nights?) heard each others bands, (Sheela na Gigh, Uisce Scona, Scona Brae, Jolly Beggars, Murphy's Law, Fair Billy, and others I can't remember). Tami got a call one day to put a band in a wedding and decided right then to put together her dream team band. So we got together, changed our name about 18 times and finally settled on Darkwood for about 3 years. We played quite a bit with that name, had lots of fun and even started recording our Cd and realized finally that we shared the name with someone else with a prior claim. Welcome to Celtara! After months of baby books, debates and web searches we've rechristened ourselves Celtara and it's ours all ours! We'll see you at partys, pubs, festivals, tea houses, house concerts, boats and theatres. You'll hear us here and on fine radio. You can buy our Cd at Blackbyrd Myoosic, at the Gramaphone or through us.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/8/2007
Band Website: celtara.ca
Band Members:

Tami Cooper, flute & vocals

Bonnie Gregory, fiddle harp & vocals

Steven Bell, accordian piano & vocals

Andreas Illig, guitar & bouzouki

Mark Arnison, bodhran, percussion & vocals


Influences:
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Sound System

We went and tried out a Bose L1 version II sound system and were frankly, blown away by how amazing the sound was. It's a tiny little stack, very light, and yes, quite expensive, but we loved the sou...
Posted by Celtara on Sun, 11 May 2008 12:04:00 PST

Our brand spanking new CD is here!!!!

Finally!!!  Last night in our hot lil hands we saw boxes and boxes of shiny new Cd's.  We played at Steeps last night and sold a few...getting all warmed up for Cd release at Freemason's Hal...
Posted by Celtara on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:34:00 PST