Isle of Man music highlighted at Cape Breton\u0027s Celtic Colours festival with Manx Gaelic duo

SYDNEY, N.S. - An internationally acclaimed Manx Gaelic duo might have never come to be if it wasn't for a bad case of tendonitis.

"It's been the silver lining to the tendonitis cloud, I'd say, because I actually love singing more than I ever loved playing the flute. And I don't think I'd necessarily have worked that out for myself … I think I would have persevered with the flute a bit more. Maybe it was life's way of saying this was the right thing to happen."

Along with singing in Manx Gaelic, Keggin became a fluent speaker in the language which her grandparents spoke but her parents didn't. Keggin said an uptake of younger speakers in the decades after that has resulted in the number of speakers on the Isle of Man going from a couple hundred to a couple of thousand and there was never really a time when no one spoke Manx Gaelic.

After finishing university, Hair knew she didn't want to be playing in bars and clubs. She started a band and began arranging songs for the harp. For the past 15 years, Hair has been going to the Isle of Man to teach and through the music industry met Keggin about 10 years ago.

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