Celtic Music Concert

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Event type: All Ages

Fresh from their appearance at the Goderich Celtic Roots Festival this summer, Avondale Music Series is pleased to present this Cape Breton duo on the Avondale stage. 

With more than a decade of making records and touring around the world behind them—as members of the award-winning Cape Breton Celtic supergroup Còig—Rachel Davis and Darren McMullen now have their sights set on something new—Home. 

A virtuoso on the fiddle, Rachel Davis and multi-instrumentalist Darren McMullen are well-established and respected in the world of traditional music, each attracting attention with their own recordings and headlining stages across Canada, the U.S, the U.K., Belgium,  and Australia. They have collected a mantle of awards and accolades including the 2020 Canadian Folk Music Award for Traditional Singer of the Year (Rachel Davis), multiple East Coast Music Awards, and a JUNO Award nomination for their critically acclaimed albums.

The new duo album Home, co-produced by Dave Gunning, captures the pair’s outstanding musicianship and vocals offering a refreshing mix of traditional tunes and songs with original co-writes and signature classics. They take turns on lead vocals and harmonies, shifting effortlessly from haunting ancient melodies to contemporary folk classics to songs written with some of this generation’s most notable songwriters.  

Listening to Rachel and Darren, it’s obvious that they’ve been playing together for a while—there’s an easy way about them, a sense of comfort that comes through in the music, in the mix of their instruments, the blending of their voices, and how the arrangements leave room for each other. Explore the music and experience the journey—Home.  

Home was released May 3rd 2024, and has received the 2024 Music Nova Scotia Award for Traditional Recording of the Year. It has also been nominated for two 2025 Canadian Folk Music Awards - Ensemble of the Year + New/Emerging Artist of the Year.

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