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On Saturday, August 23, at 8:00pm, Great Waters Music Festival is hosting the Great Waters Orchestra Pops. The great event will be located under the Great Waters tent at Brewster Academy.

Peter Mansfield, the acclaimed conductor and multitalented musician, has a long standing relationship with the Boston Pops and has worked closely with maestros John Williams and Keith Lockhart as pianist and arranger. He has also served as Musical Coordinator for the PBS television specials, Evening At Pops, featuring such artists as Winton Marsalis, George Benson, Lyontyne Price and Tommy Tune. His credits include pops music conductor for such renowned orchestras as the Kansan City Symphony, the Hartford Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the New Hampshire Symphony, the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, the Philadelphia Pops and the National Symphony Orchestra, to name a few. Mr. Mansfield was the Music Director for Concert on Ice, the first international tour featuring Olympic and world champion figure skaters in concert with major US and Canadian orchestras. He enjoyed a 20 year tenure as Music Director and Music Supervisor of the renowned Harvard University Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Along with his many conducting and arranging engagements, he presently serves as a faculty member in the Music Theater Department of Boston Conservatory.

On Friday, August 8th, at 8:00pm, Great Waters Music Festival is hosting the Celtic Tenors. The great event will be located under the Great Waters tent at Brewster Academy. The celtic Tenors are back under the tent by popular demand. Come enjoy this spectacular show! Great Waters

The Celtic Tenors have established themselve s as the most successful Classical Crossover artists ever to have come out of Ireland, and continue to re-invent the whole "Tenor" idiom. 

Signed on the spot to an international record deal in London in 2000, their first album went on to achieve double platinum status in their homeland, Number 1 in Ireland and Germany, Number 2 in the UK, and won them the "Echo Award" for "Best Classical Crossover Act" in Germany.

A full-length TV Special "Ein Grosser Irischer Abend" was broadcast to millions on German television, and then released as a coast-to-coast TV Special on PBS in the USA "Celebrate with the Celtic Tenors". There swiftly followed a second album "So Strong" recorded at Abbey Road Studios , produced by the legendary Mike Moran, of Queen and Freddie Mercury fame. Their third album "The Irish Album" was recorded at home with those legends of Irish folk "The Dubliners."

The Celtic Tenors have all had classical training, sung leading roles with top opera companies, performed in oratorio and concerts worldwide, and continue to show great flexibility in melding their voices to suit the appropriate Classical, folk, Irish and pop genres. Matthew Gilsenan, James Nelson and Daryl Simpson combine their unique voices, character and wit to provide a show overflowing with vitality and variety from start to finish.

Their latest album, produced by David Munro and Calum Malcolm (Blue Nile), features such guests as Samantha Mumba, Brian Kennedy and the 80s super-group Air Supply, and has already reached Number 4 in the Canadian Charts, and the Top Ten in the US Billboard Charts. This album was released on the Dara label in Ireland under the title "We are not islands", and on the Telarc label worldwide as "Remember Me".

Another exciting guest on this album is one of the brightest new talents to emerge on the Classical Crossover scene, the versatile soprano Deirdre Shannon. Deirdre has appeared in concert with many distinguished artists, including The Celtic Tenors. 

The Celtic Tenors were invited to sing for former US President Bill Clinton during a visit to Dublin Castle, and later in a private audience for Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, and his wife Nanne - at the request of U2's front-man Bono. With a total album sales worldwide, including compilations, of over one million, and a full international touring schedule, The Celtic Tenors continue to move from strength to strength.

Catch the Celtic Tenors, along with their young and incredibly talented Musical Director Colm Henry, and their exciting young soprano guest Donna Malone, somewhere on tour. Enjoy the eclectic mix of classical, folk, Irish and pop.