Tessa & Scott’s 2020 GKP Trips
Here are the details of the trips (not yet posted on the GKP site) that Tessa and Scott will be involved with in 2020:
Along the Wild Atlantic Way – Western Ireland! MAY 12 – 19, 2020 Featuring Jim Cuddy (multi-Juno award winner and Music Hall of Fame and Order of Canada recipient), Barney Bentall (Juno award winner), Tom Cochrane (multi-Juno award winner, Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and Order of Canada Recipient), Bill Henderson (Order of Canada recipient and frontman of the iconic Canadian rock band Chilliwack), Anne Lindsay (fiddler extraordinaire), Devin Cuddy and Sam Polley, along with Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (Canada’s Most Decorated Ice Dance Skaters) and James Chatto (author, culinary guru and National Head Judge of the Canadian Culinary Championships)! You will discover wonderful Galway, Europe’s Culture Capital 2020 staying for three nights at the 5 star Luxury Glenlo Abbey Hotel and four nights exploring the awe-inspiring natural beauty of Connemara staying at the 5 star Luxury Ballynahinch Castle! You can explore the area on bike and by foot and enjoy castle activities such as clay pigeon shooting, archery, fly fishing and fabulous local food including oysters, beers, whiskeys and gins.
Matera Southern Italy – Awarded the Cultural Capital of Europe 2019! MAY 20 - 27, 2020 Featuring Alan Doyle (Canadian music legend, actor, producer, best-selling author and best known as lead singer for the Newfoundland’s beloved Great Big Sea), Neil Osborne (Canadian Music Industry Hall of Famer and Rock Legend of 54•40), Cory Tetford (singer, songwriter and producer), and Kendel Carson (fiddler extraordinaire) along with Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (Canada’s most decorated Ice Dance skaters) and Canada’s Premier Wine Expert David Lawrason! NOTE: one additional musician TBC Matera, Basilicata's jewel, may be the third-longest continuously inhabited human settlement in the world. Natural caves in the tufa limestone, exposed as the Gravina cut its gorge, attracted the first inhabitants perhaps 7000 years ago. Today, looking across the gorge to Matera’s huddled sassi (cave dwellings) it seems you've been transported back to the ancient Holy Land. You will roam though the labyrinth of this UNESCO World Heritage site and discover the magic of this spectacular place – the wines, the history, the surrounding hills of Masseria and the wines of the Vulture region! Bellissimo!