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It was quite a sight last night along the boardwalk in Hastings, Barbados; the Mackenzie brothers from Cape Breton – one, Angus, a piper, the other two, Callum and Kenneth, fiddlers – leading a late night music session at a local watering hole. Recently we spoke with Kenneth about his roots and the family tree.

The Celtic Festival Barbados fills the week from 23rd – 29th May on Barbados with high quality Celtic folk music events from a wide range of visiting musicians, from Scotland, Ireland and Cape Breton Island in Canada. Get the story here!

Carol Anderson remembers it well. “The first time I visited Barbados in 1999 I thought I had arrived in heaven,” recalled the organizer of Celtic Festival Barbados via email from her office in Edinburgh, Scotland. Read more here!

Bucking the emigration trend, a young couple from Ireland’s gorgeous west coast have decided to stay put and go into business for themselves. Get the story here!

Situated so close to the national border that it nudges England, the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye offers views of some of the most beautiful countryside in Britain. It’s a rural idyll, but this tiny community of fewer than 2,000 is also known as The Town of Books and for 10 days every spring it is swollen by the world’s bibliophiles, who gather for the famous Hay Festival. Read more here!