The Summerside Lobster Carnival Talent Showcase Presents
Keep the Pot Boiling:
Celtic Meets
Country!
Featuring
Richard Wood
Gordon Belsher
Brad Fremlin
and
Meaghan Blanchard and her Large Band
Friday, July 13
Credit Union Place
Concert Bowl
The Lobster Carnival
Talent Showcase presents two Island artists who bring our music to the
world!
For more than two decades,
Richard Wood
has impressed audiences all across
Canada, as well as in the US, Europe, and Japan. Highlights include TV guest
appearances with Shania Twain on “David Letterman” and “Good Morning
America,” Carnegie Hall with Irish legends The Chieftains, a featured performer
on CBC’s Canada Day on Parliament Hill, “Rita MacNeil and Friends,” and with
Jean Butler of Riverdance on “Celtic
Electric.”
Richard has played for Canada’s Prime Minister and
Governor General, the Queen of England (in Toronto), and for the Emperor of
Japan in Tokyo. In the late 1990s he toured the UK & Europe headlining
concert halls and folk festivals. He’s since played at the Lincoln Centre in New
York City, Epcot at Disney World, and was a featured performer in the touring
fiddle spectacle “Bowfire.”
Richard is proud to have entertained Canada’s
armed forces in Bosnia and twice in Afghanistan. He has five previous CD
recordings and has won three Canadian East Coast Music
Awards. MacLean’s Magazine named him one of
the Top 100 Canadians to watch in the 21st Century.
With a new CD,
rejuvenated energy and enthusiasm, Richard Wood, Prince Edward Island fiddler,
artist, composer and entertainer has taken on the world once again. Richard has
come full circle, not just in his musical career, but from the sheltered
innocence as a child prodigy to learning life’s lessons the hard
way.
Meaghan Blanchard is a
singer/songwriter from Hunter River PEI. Her latest album “Chasin’ Lonely
Again” won a 2011 ECMA award. Her first album “Changing Things” won four Music
PEI Awards in 2009.
She has performed for William and
Kate during their Royal Visit to PEI in the summer of 2011 and played 47 shows
in 15 days at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver BC in
2010.
She has toured in Alberta,
Manitoba and Ontario as well as select Maritime dates.
In 2012 Meaghan
appeared in her first television special “The Songs Of Gene MacLellan” airing
nationally on the CBC in Canada this summer. She will play the Mariposa Folk
Festival for the first time this year, as well as the Deep Roots Festival in
Wolfville NS in September.
A new album will be recorded this fall in the
Peachtree state of Georgia for release in 2013. Her musical heroes include her
grandparents, Dolly Parton, Patti Griffin, Patsy Cline and Aretha
Franklin.
