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'Magic of Ireland'
coming to Bradley
PUTNAM --- The Magic of Ireland performing at The Bradley Playhouse Feb. 25 announced two new cast members, Award winner of the 2009 Roots/Traditional Recording of the Year, Troy MacGillivray and Canadian Grand Master Fiddle Champion of 2009/2010, Julie Fitzgerald, along with two very accomplished actors, Thea Award winning actor and designer with Toronto Irish Players, Jonathan Lynn and active member of the award winning Toronto Irish Players , and featured in John N. Smith’s NFB Oscar nominated docudrama “The First Winter”, Kevin Kennedy.
Tickets are $35 and are available by calling 928-7887.
Nova Scotia’s Troy MacGillivray has a musical prowess that can be attributed to an especially rare combination of commitment and bloodline. From a young age, Troy was impressing audiences with his fiddle, piano and step dancing, skills. He has completed Grade 7 of the Toronto Conservatory of Music for classical piano, spent 4 years in a stringed orchestra, earned a bachelor's degree with a major in music from St. F X University and received an Applied Music Technology Diploma for recording engineering. He has a roots-centered approach to his fiddling and piano playing.
Julie Fitzgerald is an accomplished fiddle player and step dancer from Bancroft, ON. She is the 2009 and 2010 Canadian Grand Masters Fiddle Champion, and the 2010 Ontario Open Stepdance Champion and received first place in dance at the 2010 Pembroke Fiddle and Stepdance Competition. She tours with the band Everything Fitz, performing in venues across Canada and the U.S. In this band, she also plays mandolin, piano, and she choreographs dance routines.
Although she got her start in old-time fiddle, she has also added bluegrass, Texas-swing, French-Canadian, and Celtic/Irish music into her repertoire. Julie is attending Humber College, enrolled in the Jazz/Contemporary Music Degree Program for fiddle/violin.