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A group of well-known Cape Breton entertainers is giving people a reason to get into the holiday spirit a bit early with a new show.

Celtic music’s universal appeal is ‘cool,’ says Beòlach fiddler Wendy MacIsaac.

Celtic music’s universal appeal is ‘cool,’ says Beòlach fiddler Wendy MacIsaac.

  SYDNEY, N.S. -- Its a song that for years has been the unofficial anthem of Cape Breton Island. Now, Kenzie MacNeil – who wrote and sang The Island back in the 1970s – has passed away. "I was quite shocked," said Maynard Morrison, an actor and performer who worked with MacNeil on The Rise and Follies of Cape Breton Island – a successful and satirical comedic sketch in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The show was a precursor to the Cape Breton Summertime Revue. "If it hadnt been f...