IMT welcomes back James Keelaghan! If you want well crafted, intelligently written material played with hell-bent, rampaging abandon, this concert’s for you! With 8 albums, 3 JUNO nominations, a Juno award and a total of 17 years as one of Canada's best known exports on the folk circuit, James Keelaghan is renowned for mining the past for musical inspiration. His most celebrated songs tell the stories of extraordinary events from history through the eyes of ordinary people. "I'm very excited about the release of my new CD Then Again. I have been wanting to do new versions of favourite songs for years and now here they are”.  Meanwhile, James continues to garner accolades for his songwriting, having just won first place in the folk category of the USA Songwriting competition for the second year in a row. The James Keelaghan Trio is James, brilliant bassist Hugh McMillan and fiddler Jane Clark, combining their considerable talents for an evening of pure listening enjoyment.

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