A local fiddler says he’s ecstatic to be playing in Cape Breton’s island-wide music festival.
Morgan Toney, a 21-year-old originally from We’koma’q First Nation, will be on the Celtic Colours International Festival stage for opening night Friday.
However, it won’t look the same as last year. The 2020 festival is totally virtual.
Toney tells The Hawk Morning Show he wishes he were able to play in-person for a sold-out crowd.
“This is going to be really different. It sucks though, that we have the virus thing going on right now,” he says. “But I’m still thankful that I’m getting to play on the Celtic Colours stage.”
Toney says, regardless, he was honoured to be asked to perform.
He says it’s going to be strange without a crowd.
“I don’t know what it’s going to be like,” he says. “For Celtic Colours there is no audience, and the audience, that’s what keeps me going, it gets me pumped up.”
He says he’s grateful he’ll be able to play, even with the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
