Brenda Stubbert and Janine Randall (Canada - NS / USA)
Deeply rooted in the distinctive music of Cape Breton’s Northside, Brenda Stubbert is an extraordinary fiddler, pianist and composer. She has several albums to her name including Tameracker Down (1987), House Sessions, (1992), and Jig Time (1999), released the same year that her first book of compositions came out. Taken together, all her albums have helped shape the sound of today’s Cape Breton fiddle tradition and her tunes are in repertoires everywhere Celtic fiddle music can be heard. Along with performing in dance halls and festivals, Brenda has taught for twelve years at Cape Breton’s influential Ceilidh Trail School, as well as at the Gaelic College and other venues on and off the island.
Janine Randall - Piano
Janine Randall
is a first
generation American descended from the Camerons, MacNeils, and
Walkers of Mabou and Margaree Harbours along the western side
of Cape
Breton Island. Coming from a well known
musical family, Janine naturally gravitated towards music and
culture and in 1995 she founded and became the Director of the
Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic Music in Inverness, Cape Breton
Island, Nova
Scotia.
An accomplished academic speaker, writer, piano teacher and promoter of Cape Breton culture, Janine has given presentations and workshops at NAFCO 2001. She is also a regular accompanist at Cape Breton dances and concerts throughout New England, Canada, the United States and Scotland .
