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TODAY IN B.C.: Christmas concert tour began on Vancouver Island, spanned nation
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Host Peter McCully talks with Lucy and Stewart MacNeil about their Christmas concert tour that began on Vancouver Island and ended on Cape Breton Island.

The siblings are from Cape Breton Island and began performing together in 1980 while still teenagers (Lucy being only 10) and are classically trained musicians and alumni of Mount Allison University.

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The Barra MacNeils won their first East Coast Music Award in 1991, and won a Juno Award for Album of the Year for TimeFrame in 1992, and a Group of the Year award in 2001.

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Peter McCully

About the Author: Peter McCully

Peter has been a broadcaster and publisher on both of CanadaB次元官网网址檚 coasts and has owned a small newspaper and run an advertising agency along the way.
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