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The name Slàinte Mhath is a Gaelic toast which means "To Your Health". Cape Breton's youngest and most innovative group, Slainte Mhath combine styles that are continents apart and performed in the Cape Breton idiom. Their music has its feet firmly planted in traditional Celtic music but they manage to keep an ear to the contemporary ground. They are young, energetic, extremely talented and fast becoming one of the leading Irish bands. "The quintet put on quite a show, with flying bagpipe tunes, fizzing fiddle reels, complete with Stax-style funky guitar rhythms, a percussion-dominated finale which took in an African groove and a nimbly co-ordinated six-footed step dance routine" ­ The Herald.