Hear, hear. Celtic Connection‘s artistic director Donald Shaw wrote asking me to authorize BBC to shoot a video of our show of Wednesday 31st. Always the geenrous type, I granted it . Meanwhile the festival defined the night’s schedule:

7.30pm (20 mins) – Grace Hewat & Polwart (a trio of Scottish voices)
7.50pm (15 mins) – Mairi Smith (solo Gaelic singer from Isle of Lewis)
8.05pm (40 mins) – Bulgarian Women’s Choir, Angelite
8.45pm interval (25 mins)
9.10pm (20 mins) – the Aberfeldy Gaelic Choir (directed by Margaret Bennett)
9.30pm (45 mins) – Coro delle Mondine di Novi with band Fiamma Fumana
10.15pm – there is a thought that all the voices could come together for one song at the end of the night. this may not be possible due to time restraints, but if there is any songs which you think may work as a ‘together’ song, please let me know. But at the same time, please do not worry if there is nothing that comes to mind.

For the ending, we are planning a Bella Ciao led by us, with the insertion of other artists. We did some thing similar in Canada in 2004, with James Graham and Warsaw Village Band, which turned out really well… I have uploaded it onto Last.fm and you can hear it clicking on the “play” button below.

Fiamma Fumana – Bella ciao – Live with Warsaw Village Band and James Graham