Holiday Festival on Ice taping Dec. 5

[Joe]

The Cottars and Natalie MacMaster will provide the music for the upcoming taping of Holiday Festival on Ice - A Celtic Christmas.

The ice skating show will be taped on December 5th at 7 PM at the Halifax Metro Centre, and will be later broadcast as a 90-minute show on the CBC on December 17th.

The lineup of skaters includes --

Jeff Buttle.... (2008 World Champion)
Sasha Cohen.... (USA 2006 Olympic silver medalist)
Kurt Browning.... (four-time world champion)
Shawn Sawyer.... (3-time Canadian national bronze medalist)
Steven Cousins.... (eight-time British national champion)
Jennifer Robinson.... (six-time Canadian national champion)
Jamie Salé & David Pelletier.... (2002 Olympic gold medalists)
Marie-France Dubreuil & Patrice Lauzon.... (2-time world silver medalists)

Highlights will include two full cast numbers and two individual performances by each skater or duo.

Tickets go on sale Friday October 31 at 9 a.m. and are $81 for ice level. Lower bowl seats are $56, $51 seniors and $31 children 12 and under and upper bowl seats are $36, $31 and $21. Group rates are available. Tickets are available at the Ticket Atlantic box office, by phone [phone], online at www.ticketatlantic.com and at participating Atlantic Superstore outlets.

Halifax Metro Centre will be collecting food and cash donations at the door for Feed Nova Scotia.

Links to news stories
Metronews.ca
Chronicleherald.ca

[Ginny]

Woot, I like forward to seeing that on CBC

Cheers,
Ginny

[faerie]

wow ya
cant wait

Tia

[Joe]

Hi all,

I wonder if Natalie MacMaster is still performing in this? Perhaps Natalie will do the second night of taping, Dec. 6 at the General Motors Centre in Oshawa, ON www.kurtfiles.com/events/hfoi08.php . Nothing on Natalie's website though.

Looks like The Cottars will be the only musical act then. More info from www.ticketatlantic.com/en/home/sports/holidayfestivalonice.aspx:
The skaters will be joined by special musical guests, two time ECMA award winners, The Cottars. This hot young Celtic band from Cape Breton have been making waves wherever they go, including a "sold out" tour of the Maritimes, a performance at Carnegie Hall, and two tours of Japan.

[faerie]

hmm, I was wondering the same thing, because Natalies site says nothing and they usually update it alot, maybe it will just be the cottars playing, or the skaters will be skating to recorded tunes by natalie?

Tia

[Joe]

When is this on TV...oh, December 17. We may have to wait until then to see what happens.

I wonder if Natalie MacMaster can skate? I'd love to see her skate and play the fiddle!

Joe

[faerie]

Now that would be interesting

Tia

[Joe]

The Delta Barrington Hotel in Halifax is offering a special deal. The package is two tickets for the Holiday Festival on Ice, followed by overnight accommodation.

www.deltahotels.com/hotels/specials.html?hotelId=3#3606

[Joe]

Hi all,

Natalie MacMaster will be performing!

Grammy nominee Natalie MacMaster and ECMA winners The Cottars in an arena that will be decked to the rafters in holiday trimmings.

The 90-minute production that features two full cast numbers as well as two individual performances by each skater will be televised by CBC for broadcast on Dec. 17 at 8 p.m

Current world champion Jeff Buttle adds,"Everyone does a holiday number and a non-holiday song, the mix is awesome. As well, anyone who comes to see the show is asked to bring a non-perishable food donation or a cash donation for Feed Nova Scotia."

Read the entire article here:
thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1093325.html

[Joe]

Wow! Read all about it from The Chronicle-Herald...link below.

MacMaster, Cottars, world-class skaters capture season’s grace and beauty

By ANDREA NEMETZ Entertainment Reporter | Ice Show Review

Sat. Dec 6 - 8:21 AM

Before rocking Halifax Metro Centre to the sounds of Foreigner’s highly appropriate hit Cold As Ice, Shawn Sawyer urged the crowd not to be cold as ice this Christmas.

The Edmunston, N.B., skater needn’t have worried.

The 7,000 fans assembled Friday for Holiday Festival on Ice couldn’t have given the 10 world-class skaters — plus musical guests The Cottars and Natalie MacMaster — a warmer reception, rising to their feet for standing ovations eight times during the two-hour show.

Opening with Season of Holly and Ivy, ECMA-winning group The Cottars set the tone for the evening with a theme of A Celtic Christmas, as Marie-France Dubreuil, Jennifer Robinson and Jamie Sale skated out in shimmering silver dresses, elegantly twisting glittery tartan scarves.

And in Peace Carol, as the Cottars’ music sent shivers down the spine, the flexible Sawyer, who is attempting to qualify for his second Olympic berth, elicited gasps with a back flip. He repeated the move in Cold As Ice, which also featured a gravity defying version of a spread eagle.

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For the complete article... visit
thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1094444.html

[Joe]

Allister said that those were the only two songs that The Cottars performed -- "The Season of Holly and Ivy" and "Peace Carol'.

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Here is a list of the skaters and their songs:

Marie-France Dubreuil, Jennifer Robinson, and Jamie Sale
"The Season of Holly and Ivy" by The Cottars

Kurt Browning
"Christmas Jig" by Natalie MacMaster
"Christmas for Cowboys" by John Denver

Sasha Cohen
"Josephine’s Waltz" by Natalie MacMaster
"Blue Christmas" by Peter Cetera

Steven Cousins
"Danny Boy" by Robert Pilon
"Fans" by Kings of Leon

Jennifer Robinson
"Bringing in a Brand New Year" by B.B. King
"The Last Rose of Summer" by Celtic Woman

Jeffrey Buttle
"What are You Doing New Year’s Eve" by Harry Connick, Jr.
"Pretty Mary" by Natalie MacMaster

Marie-France Dubreuil & Patrice Lauzon
"Rock around the Christmas Tree" by Randy Bachman
"She’s Always a Woman" by Billy Joel

Jamie Sale & David Pelletier
"Boogie Woogie Santa Claus" by Brian Setzer Orchestra
"Grown-up Christmas List" by Michael Bublé

Shawn Sawyer
"Peace Carol" by The Cottars
"Cold as ice" by Foreigner

Ending performance
"Olympic Reel" by Natalie MacMaster

[Joe]

The Cottars with Jamie Salé & David Pelletier

[faerie]

wow...that is Ciaran right?? he looks soo different!!

I cant wait to see them sing!

Tia

[Northern_Lights]

Yes he does- and Claire's hair is shorter than I recalled it being!

[Joe]

Now the CBC website says the the Holiday Festival on Ice will air at 9 PM Wednesday ...and it's only an hour program now.