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Touring Newfoundland and Labrador, Song and Stories from The Danger Tree Atlantic Canada and Ontario in 2016
June 21 - Placentia, NL* July 22 - Margaretsville, NS Douglas Cameron and David Macfarlane
June 22 - Bonavista, NL* July 23 - Mahone Bay, NS
June 23 - Gander, NL* July 31 - Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON
June 26 - Musgrave Harbour, NL* August 12 - Eastport, NL
June 27 - Fogo Island, NL* August 13 - English Harbour, NL
June 29 - Burin, NL* August 14-16 - St. John’s, NL
June 30 - Grand Falls-Windsor, NL* August 17 - Cupids, NL
July 2 - Lewisporte, NL* August 28 - Stratford, ON
July 3 - La Scie, NL September 25 - Stratford, ON
July 4 - Stephenville, NL*
July 6 - L'Anse Aux Meadows, NL
July 7 - Corner Brook, NL*
July 8 - Woody Point, NL*
July 9 - Spaniard's Bay, NL
July 10 - Mount Pearl, NL
July 21 - Indian River, PEI
*Presented by the Arts and Culture Centre A NOTE ABOUT THE SHOW THE DOOR YOU CAME IN
After a recent performance of The Door You Came In at The Rooms in Written and performed by St. John’s, a woman told us we should call our show “a cuffer.” She said it Douglas Cameron and David Macfarlane was a term her family used for an evening of songs and stories. A musical story told in ninety minutes. There will be one intermission Until then, we’d used negative descriptions: The Door You Came In wasn’t exactly a concert, and it wasn’t exactly a play. And what it certainly wasn’t, David Macfarlane was a literary reading with background music. David Macfarlane’s novel, Summer Gone, was short-listed for the So “a cuffer” sounded good to us. It has a nice ring. Scotiabank Giller Prize. Macfarlane’s best-selling Newfoundland family memoir, The Danger Tree, was greeted with extraordinary When I was a boy, visiting Newfoundland relatives from our home in international acclaim. Ontario, I loved listening to my grandparents, to my aunts and uncles, and Macfarlane’s most recent novel, The Figures of Beauty, won to their friends. There was music in the way Newfoundlanders told stories – the Bressani Literary Prize. It was described by the Wall Street in their accents, of course, but also in the momentum and rhythms of the Journal as “a moving tale of love, fate, and regret.” way they spoke. And this wasn’t an embellishment. It was what the stories David Macfarlane’s magazine and newspaper writing has earned him a National were. Newspaper Award and numerous National Magazine Awards. That’s why Douglas Cameron’s music in The Door You Came In is what His play, Fishwrap, premiered at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. it is. It’s not an add-on. It’s as much a part of our show as the words. It’s the quality that was in the voices of Newfoundlanders when they Macfarlane’s musical portrait of the city in which he lives, The Toronto Suite, was performed by the Via Salzburg Ensemble at the Glenn Gould Theatre. told me the best stories I’d ever heard. www.macfarlaneonline.com -- David Macfarlane
Douglas Cameron Douglas Cameron and David Macfarlane wish to express their thanks to the Arts and Culture Centres of Newfoundland and Labrador for their encouragement and support. Thanks also and Two time Juno nominee Douglas Cameron has been composing especially to Erin Barnhardt and Katie Jackson of the Arts and Culture and performing in Canada for over four decades. As a composer Centre; Jenn Deon & Dave Walsh; Dianne Gartley; Dave Kelso and Rod for television his credits include shows with Showtime, HGTV, Pratt; Valerie and Larry Whalen of the Outport Museum; Dianne Carr and Bravo, CBC, Treehouse and HBO. the Royal Canadian Legion of Spaniard's Bay; Gina and Adrian As a partner in Tickadeeboo Entertainment, Cameron has Noordhof of the Norseman Restaurant; Mark de Domenico. produced several live family entertainment theatre productions that have toured across Canada. As a performer Cameron has been a mainstay of Borrowed Tunes, the annual Neil Young tribute at Hugh’s Room in Toronto. He leads The Louisiana Snowblowers a local roots/blues/jazz combo and plays drums in Three Chord Johnny Toronto’s premier R&B collective. Cameron is a frequent featured performer with Whiskey Jack Presents Stories & Songs of Stompin’ Tom. Cameron co-founded and led the monthly Rooster Uke Jam and co-produced the Canada Ukes festival. In July 2015 Cameron released a new album of songs entitled Riverdale after the neighbourhood in Toronto they were conceived and produced in.