Former Fergus resident Nonie Thompson will be back at the Fergus Grand Theatre with The Reel Celts on Jan. 25.
The band will be playing its Robbie Burns Day concert at 8pm as part of the The Reel Rabbie Burns show.
Through song, stories, narration and dance and performed against a backdrop of over 300 stunning photographs of Scotland, The Real Rabbie Burns featuring The Reel Celts is a concert exploring the life and times of Scotland’s most famous son, poet, song-writer, and raconteur Robert Burns, officials say.
The show is now in its third season of touring Ontario. Burns was much more than the character celebrated annually on Burn’s Day; colourful, complex, humorous and of course, romantic.
From lovesongs to rebel songs, blazing instrumentals to singalongs, The Real Rabbie Burns is sure to entertain, officials state.
Much of the story is told in Burn’s own words, from letters he wrote, and it highlights many little-known or perhaps suppressed elements of the man known as Scotland’s Bard.
The Celts feature Anne Lederman on fiddle and vocals, Nonie Thompson on guitar, harmonica and vocals, Eugene Rea on banjo, mandolin, bouzouki, guitar, whistles, vocals; Tom Leighton on accordion, keyboards, bodhran; and, Paul Gribbon on Uillean Pipes and whistles.
In 2015, the band was invited to play at the Canadian National Highland Dance Championships in London, and were heard by an estimated 10,000 people.
Visit The Reel Celts at www.facebook.com/TheReelCelts.
Tickets for the Jan. 25 show are $25 and can be ordered online at www.centrewellington.ca/beactive/Pages/Fergus-Grand-Theatre.aspx or at the theatre door.
For more information phone the box office at 519- 846-9691 x201. The show is appropriate for all ages.
