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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.

鈥淭here鈥檚 lots of different parts of Christmas that we can draw from in our shows, and I think that鈥檚 why it comes across as natural and because we are drawing on real things, it鈥檚 not Tinsel Town,鈥� said Lucy.

鈥淚 do think that, as Canadians, there鈥檚 something about our climate where we live and the expanse of the land we do share,鈥� added Stewart. 鈥淭here鈥檚 things about the Christmas season and the darkness that comes and how it鈥檚 so important for people to experience the comforts of home cooking, the smells, the sights, the lights, the sounds. These are things that get us through the dark months.鈥�

The podcast includes two tunes, 鈥楾oonik Tyme鈥� from the live album 鈥楽essions鈥� (inspired by the Toonik Tyme Festival in Iqaluit) and 鈥極 Holy Night鈥�.

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.

Their 1993 album 鈥楥loser To Paradise鈥� earned gold record status. They have been an opening act for C茅line Dion and have toured regularly across North America and Europe.

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