September 16, 2007
Cape Breton’s Barra MacNeils are before the camera in Halifax this week
Halifax Chronicle Herald

Cape Breton’s Barra MacNeils are before the camera in Halifax this week, filming a Christmas special for national broadcast later this year, with an eye towards possible PBS airings south of the border.

Titled Christmas Together With the Barra MacNeils, the show will primarily be a concert performance with special guests vocalist/harpist Maggie MacInnes from Scotland’s Isle of Barra and a guest trio of Acadian vocalists, Monique Poirier, Isabelle Thériault and Patricia Richard.

Fans should also be on the lookout for the group’s 20th Anniversary Collection, which hit record stores this week.

The tattler remembers when they were just a bunch of kids crossing the causeway for the first time.

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