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Musique Royale announces a six-concert province-wide tour of the Celtic band Bùmarang. Comprised of three of Montreal’s finest Celtic musicians: Kate Bevan-Baker (Hey Rosetta!, The Dardanelles), Sarah Pagé (Barr Brothers), and Dave Gossage (Orealis, Land of Kush), Bùmarang draws from their diverse musical backgrounds in jazz, classical, African, bluegrass, and traditional music to create an unforgettable Celtic sound.

About the Group

Bùmarang is a Montreal based trio, nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award (2022) – Instrumental Group of the Year. They look like a traditional Celtic band – with the Irish flute, fiddle, and Celtic harp – but their vocals and supporting instruments leave heads spinning (like a boomerang!). This is the new growth on old roots – a modern sound. Seriously talented, but laid-back on stage, the music is jaw-dropping and the banter is knee-slapping. Trad-heads will get their fix, but everyone will be toe-tapping, indie rockers buzzing, jazz fans finger-snapping, and Bhangra dancers bouncing in the aisles.

Bùmarang is Scots Gaelic for ‘boomerang’. They throw themselves into the musical past, and like a boomerang, return with a passion and primal energy. These masters of tradition re-interpret timeless melodies, and infuse them with classical, jazz, African, and Indian music, with a Canadian urban edge. The harp might be played with a fiddle bow; the fiddle played like a drum; and the flute played with the cyclical breathing of a didgeridoo. Electronic soundscapes weave seamlessly throughout, and the Irish and Scottish Celtic music and English and Appalachian folk songs hurtle like a boomerang between trad and trippy.

Bùmarang is a power trio: Dave Gossage, Kate Bevan-Baker and Sarah Pagé. Individually they have won postdoctoral awards, played for Queen Elizabeth II, performed at Canada’s highest music award show – the Junos, been nominated for Juno Awards, and Academy Awards, and appeared on Late Night with David Letterman. Bùmarang has toured Canada, and been immensely popular at major festivals, including, the mighty gem that is Stratford Summer Music Festival (2019), Prince Edward Island’s largest festivals – Under the Sprire (2022) and DiverseCity Multicultural Festival (2019), Nova Scotia’s premiere concert series: Musique Royale (2019) and Quebec’s world-renowned Celtic Harmonies International Festival (2017). Whether it’s an open air festival for thousands, or an intimate indoor setting, the interaction with the audience members is important to the artists both onstage and off stage.

Bùmarang’s debut album, “Echo Land” was released in 2021 to critical acclaim by both the public and the press. The Guardian, PEI described it as “Jaw dropping flute and whistle playing, creatively and beautifully delivered songs, and dazzling sets of jigs and reels propelled by the tightly-synched unified force of the three instruments.” The album was honoured with a nomination for a Canadian Folk Music Award for Best Instrumental Album in 2022 The band is currently recording a second album, and scheduling a tour of Canada for summer 2023.

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