32nd FESTIVAL GUIDE 2017
Music by the sea!
August 10-13 www.folkharbour.com
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WELCOME MESSAGES...... 5 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE...... 5 MINISTER OF CANADIAN HERITAGE...... 6 MLA'S MESSAGE...... 7 MAYOR’S MESSAGE...... 8 MINISTER OF COMMUNITIES, CULTURE AND HERITAGE...... 9 ARTIST BIOS...... 10 EMCEE BIOS...... 29 SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS...... 34 SCHEDULE...... 34 LATE NIGHT...... 34 THURSDAY...... 35 FRIDAY...... 36 On behalf of the Board of Directors and all members of the Lunenburg Folk SATURDAY...... 38 Harbour Society, it is my honour to welcome you to the 32nd Lunenburg Folk SUNDAY...... 40 Harbour Festival. If this is your first time here, you are in for a very special treat. VENUE MAP...... 42 To those of you who are returning, welcome back. We are proud to continue the tradition of making musical memories by the sea here in this beautiful UNESCO FOLK STEPS CONFERENCE...... 44 World Heritage site. ALMA HOUSTON TALKS...... 46 Since 1986, we have endeavoured to honour, to protect and to extend folk music SCHOOL OF FOLK...... 47 traditions, as well as contribute meaningfully to the community of Lunenburg WORKSHOPS FOR ALL AGES...... 47 and the South Shore. Our recipe for success has been a combination of great YOUTH WORKSHOPS...... 48 programming and a comfortable, family-friendly experience set in the dazzling ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING...... 49 surroundings of our small seaport. This year the program is sure to please. It includes many names that are traditional favourites along with some surprizes TICKET INFOMATION...... 50 that will send you home with new additions for your go-to playlist.
BOX OFFICE...... 52 We have the privilege of sharing this weekend with the Rendez-vous 2017 Tall VENDORS...... 54 Ships Regatta. Please take time to visit the ships and the stage at the waterfront. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Since last October, we have been working CONCESSIONS...... 55 closely with our partners the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, the Town of GREENING...... 57 Lunenburg, and the Lunenburg Board of Trade to make your visit comfortable IN MEMORY...... 58 and safe. We thank them for all the hard work and cooperation. Thanks, also, to our sponsor, High Liner Foods, for making their parking lot available for parking VOLUNTEERS...... 59 during Main Stage performances. Please take advantage of the parking in their lot FRIENDS...... 63 at 100 Battery Point Road as well as the buses and shuttle services throughout town. We will be happy to return to our normal wharf stage next year, but in the DONORS...... 64 meantime, we are proud to share this amazing weekend with eleven majestic tall SPONSORS...... 65 ships and their crews. CONTACT US GET TICKETS Deborah Watring-Ellis 902-634-3180 President, Lunenburg Folk Harbour Society [email protected] 1-888-311-9090 125 Montague Street www.ticketpro.ca www.folkharbour.com www.folkharbour.com WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 6 7 WELCOME MESSAGES WELCOME MESSAGES
Welcome to the 2017 Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival! Welcome to the 2017 Folk Harbour Festival. As MLA for the Lunenburg Constituency, I invite you to enjoy all that this beautiful UNESCO town has to This year, Canadians across the country are celebrating Canada 150 by taking offer. We take pride in showing off to visitors our unique culture and heritage. part in activities that showcase our heritage and our cultural diversity. Whether this is your first or thirty-first time attending the festival, you will In this year of celebrations, this festival allows performers to share their music be highly entertained and have the opportunity to take part in a variety of in a unique harbour setting right here in historic Lunenburg. The entire four days workshops. Again, the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival has brought together highlight a talented lineup of musicians who are exploring and presenting various diverse and talented musicians and composers. forms of folk music. Volunteers continue to be the heart of Folk Harbour, devoting many hours all year As Minister of Canadian Heritage, I congratulate all the organizers, volunteers, long to plan and to fundraise. They, along with Staff and Board Members, will and the artists for making this year’s Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival such a provide you with a world class weekend. successful event. Be sure to take advantage of the sights, shopping, galleries, and eateries during your stay. The Honourable Mélanie Joly Minister of Canadian Heritage Have a wonderful time!
Suzanne Lohnes-Croft MLA, Lunenburg
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Welcome to Lunenburg, and welcome to the 32nd edition of the Folk Harbour On behalf of the Government of Nova Scotia, I am pleased to welcome you to the Festival during this special year celebrating our country’s 150th Anniversary. 2017 Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival, one of Nova Scotia’s premier festivals. As an historic seaport, Lunenburg is proud to be showcasing a spectacular line-up of folk music performances against the backdrop of a harbour full of Tall Investing in community and cultural organizations, like the Lunenburg Folk Ships gathered for Rendez-vous 2017. All the ingredients of a truly memorable Harbour Festival, is a vital part of Nova Scotia’s Culture Action Plan. Launched experience are here. Breathe in the fresh seaside air, savour some of the culinary earlier this year, the plan supports government’s mandate to contribute to the delights available here and you will have excited and satisfied the aspirations of well-being and prosperity of Nova Scotia’s diverse and creative communities all your senses. through the promotion, development, preservation, and celebration of the province’s culture, heritage, identity and languages. Folk Harbour promises an incredible musical feast of lively, moving and powerful performances by a varied group of talented performers. Enthusiastic volunteers, I wish this year’s festival great success and encourage all Nova Scotians to attend dedicated staff and accomplished musicians team up to bring “FOLK HARBOUR” this year’s festival. to life. You can just sit back and enjoy it. Thank you for making Folk Harbour a In closing, I would like to thank the festival organizers and volunteers for their part of your summer. We look forward to seeing you again! hard work and commitment to this annual event.
Rachel Bailey Enjoy the festival! Mayor
Honourable Leo Glavine Minister, Communities, Culture and Heritage
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 10 11 ARTIST BIOS ARTIST BIOS ARTIST BIOS Amelia Curran Amelia Curran is a Juno-Award winning songwriter, activist, Alan Jeffries Bluegrass Band and mental health advocate from St. John’s, NL. Her music is distinguished by her intricate and evocative lyrics – no Alan Jeffries is no stranger to the Lunenburg Folk Harbour wonder she has been compared to Leonard Cohen. The first Festival, having accompanied David Myles over the years; of her eight recordings was released in 2000 and grew out of Alan also headlined his own band in 2014. This year Alan her experience busking on the streets of St. John’s. Her most returns with his Bluegrass Band. A superb musician, Alan recent recording, Watershed (2017), lives up to its name was named the Atlantic Canada Bluegrass and Oldtime and marks a directional change in her music. The tone of this new album is openness Music Association’s Bluegrass Player of the Year in 2005. and reveals her increasingly public efforts to battle the stigma of mental health issues Since then, he has ventured into different styles of music in the arts. As a whole, the album calls for compassion and unification as a breakwater and has played with several artists, but returned to his bluegrass roots with his 2013 against the sea of cruelties we inflict upon each other and upon ourselves. Two cuts debut album, Coffee ‘til Midnight. A recording with a timeless sound for an ageless crowd, from Watershed, “Gravity” and “No More Quiet,” are receiving much airplay and show the it won the 2014 ECMA for Roots / Traditional Solo Recording of the Year. Joining Alan at strength of her songwriting. Amelia’s previous Festival appearance was in 2014. Folk Harbour this year are some of the finest bluegrass musicians that Canada has to offer: Kyle Cunjak, Andrew Sneddon, and Ryan Dillman. Be prepared for fast-picking solos, Thursday: Folk Steps Conference, Zion Lutheran Church heartbreaking harmonies, and a level of musicianship you won’t soon forget. 8:30 Main Stage Friday: 1:00 - 2:30 East Coast Circle, Lunenburg Opera House Friday: 3:00 – 4:30 Harmonize, Lunenburg Opera House 3:00 - 4:00 St. John’s Anglican Church 8:00 Main Stage Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage Alan Syliboy and The Thundermakers 1:00 - 2:30 The Story in the Song, Lunenburg Opera House Alan Syliboy is a celebrated Mi’kmaq artist and performer Ashley MacIsaac who shares his visions and creativity through his magnificent Ashley MacIsaac first played Folk Harbour in 1992 as a works of art. Alan was born and raised in Truro, NS, living 17-year-old and made his return appearance 20 years later in the Millbrook First Nations community. His work explores at our 27th annual Festival. Fans of his unconventional, the themes of family, searching, spirituality, struggle, and hard-driving fiddle style will rejoice in the fact they don’t strength. Alan Syliboy and The Thundermakers is composed have to wait so long to see Ashley on Folk Harbour’s stage of Alan Syliboy on percussion, Evan Syliboy on lead guitar, again. The iconic Cape Breton fiddler hardly needs an Lukas Pearse on bass, and Hubert Francis on lead vocals and guitar. The group’s show introduction, as he is certainly one of the most celebrated consists of songs and stories. Canadian roots musicians of all time. His discography is extensive, with 14 releases from Thursday: Folk Steps Conference, Zion Lutheran Church Closer to the Floor, his 1992 debut, to his 2016 recording, FDLER. He has sold in excess of 500,000 albums, and his 1995 recording, Hi, How Are You Today?, earned double-platinum status. Growing up surrounded by fiddle music, Ashley constantly pushed its boundaries, incorporating traditional, Celtic, rock, pop, and everything in between. Internationally renowned, he has played at an incredibly diverse array of venues, including Carnegie Hall and the opening of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. Ashley MacIsaac: three-time Juno Award winner, unbelievably talented fiddler and step dancer, astute political observer, and highly entertaining performer. His appearance this year is not to be missed. SPONSORED BY CKBW Sunday: 10:00 Main Stage
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Cassie and Maggie Chelsea Amber Sisters Cassie and Maggie MacDonald grew up in Antigonish, Halifax-based singer-songwriter Chelsea Amber brings NS, but now call Halifax home. Their Celtic background soul to the stage with passionate vocals, uplifting lyrics, influences their music, but they add an edge all their and grooving guitars. As a songwriter, her goal is to bring own. Cassie provides the powerful, lively fiddling, while hope and a sense of purpose to every audience. In 2014, her younger sister, Maggie, adds beautiful guitar and she released Introducing Chelsea Amber and followed that piano sounds and crystal-clear vocals. Both siblings use with her 2017 recording, Unplugged and Undone. She has foot percussion to drive the rhythms of their songs. It’s an astonishing list of awards and nominations for such a often noted that family groups have a special musical closeness and Cassie and Maggie young performer, including ECMAs for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year (2011 and 2015) demonstrate this phenomenon. It’s no wonder that the duo is garnering acclaim at home and Gospel Recording of the Year (2011 and 2015), several Music NS Awards, and a 2015 and abroad. Their many awards include the 2016 Live Ireland Radio’s Singers of the Year Juno nomination. The future is very bright for this amazing, young talent; indeed, Nashville and New Group of the Year titles. Furthermore, Live Ireland Radio says “it’s hard to think producer Paul Colman says, “Chelsea Amber is a standout artist. She has presence, poise, of a more entertaining act in music right now. As always, the bottom line is the music, drive, and a captivating story to tell. She also has a stunningly powerful and emotional and they play it superbly.” The sisters played the 2017 Folk Fiesta! concert just after voice and writes beautiful songs.” Chelsea is bringing her inspirational show to Folk the release of their CD, The Willow Collection. Cassie and Maggie’s performances are a Harbour for the first time in 2017. complete musical package, which they bring to the Festival’s Main Stage for the first time Thursday: Folk Steps Conference, Zion Lutheran Church this year. They are joined by Ian MacMillan for this Festival appearance. Friday: 11:00 - 12:00 Youth Workshop: Youth Choir, Central United Church Hall SPONSORED BY BMR LUNENBURG HARDWARE 2:00 - 2:30 Bandstand (with Val Meister Young Fiddlers) Thursday: 3:30 - 4:00 Tall Ships Stage 7:00 Main Stage 7:30 Main Stage Saturday: 10:00 - 12:00 Alma Houston Talks: Women Who Inspire Me, Lunenburg School of the Arts Friday: 10:00 - 11:30 Dance Workshop: Scottish Celtic, St. John’s Anglican Parish Hall 1:00 - 2:30 A Little Bit of R&B, Central United Church 3:00 - 4:30 Americana Meets Canadiana, Central United Church Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage Saturday: 10:00 - 12:00 Youth Workshop: Val Meister Young Fiddlers, Central United Church Hall 4:00 - 4:30 Bandstand 1:30 - 2:00 Bandstand (with Val Meister Young Fiddlers) 3:00 - 4:30 Celtic-Acadian Fusion, Lunenburg Opera House Dar Williams Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage Dar Williams is considered one of America’s best singer- 2:30 - 3:00 Bandstand songwriters. Born and raised in small towns in New York, she started playing guitar and writing songs at an early Caribou Run age; it was theatre, however, that initially caught her Composed of Corey Thorpe on lead guitar, Peter Visser on attention. In 1990, she moved to Boston to pursue dramatic bass guitar, Danielle Noble on keys and vocals, Jonathan arts, but found herself writing songs, taking voice lessons, Barkhouse on drums, Mike Brunelle on trombone, and Drew performing in coffee houses, and recording her first album. Moores on guitar/vocals, Caribou Run is a Halifax-based Early in her career, Dar gained tremendous exposure by opening for Joan Baez and has band. The group’s sound is described as a mixture of blues, since worked with many greats in the American folk music scene. In 1998, Dar, Richard folk, and rock n roll, with a touch of country thrown in for Shindell, and Lucy Kaplansky formed the group Cry Cry Cry as a way to pay homage good measure. Halifax Urban Folk Fest describes them as to some of their favourite folk artists. Dar’s discography for her solo work is extensive. reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac, with arrangements that are inventive and fresh. Her first two recordings were on cassette tape and are now rare; her first full-length album, The Honesty Room, was released in 1993. Her 2015 recording, Emerald, marks Sunday: 3:00 - 4:00 Bandstand Dar’s ninth studio album. A remarkable songwriter, who addresses religion, gender, anti-commercialism, loss, humour, and much more, Dar’s first Folk Harbour appearance is eagerly anticipated. Friday: 1:00 - 2:00 St John’s Anglican Church 3:00 - 4:30 Americana Meets Canadiana, Central United Church Saturday: 10:00 - 12:00 Alma Houston Talks: Women Who Inspire Me, Lunenburg School of the Arts Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage 1:00 - 2:30 The Story in the Song, Lunenburg Opera House 9:20 Main Stage
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David Myles Heather Rankin Folk Harbour favourite David Myles returns this year to After over twenty-five years of performing with her siblings, grace our stages with his timeless songs, irresistible Heather Rankin comes into her own with A Fine Line (2016), energy, appealing stage presence, and of course, his her debut solo record. This is Heather Rankin like you have trademark suits. A man whose sound ranges from soulful, never heard her before, breaking away from The Rankin contemporary pop crooners to jazzy folk ditties, and from Family’s signature sound, and forging her own musical down-home roots tunes to infectious hip-hop earworms, legacy with her poetic, intimate, original songs, and an David’s only artistic constant is his willingness to change. eclectic mix of others. Nominated for a Juno in the adult Born in Fredericton, NB and now calling Halifax home, David is a gifted writer and a contemporary album of the year category, A Fine Line is an exploration of the balance natural collaborator. “Inner Ninja,” recorded with hip-hop star, Classified, is the biggest- between grief and joy, love and loss, and life and death. While the sound is distinctively selling rap single in Canadian history, and David’s “When it Comes my Turn” made it to Heather’s own, songs like “We Walk as One” conjure evocative imagery from the past she CBC Radio’s list of the Top 10 East Coast Songs of all time. His discography is remarkably shared with her siblings; indeed, Cookie and Jimmy provide backing vocals on that track. prolific for someone who was headed down the path of political science just 15 years ago Other songs showcase Heather’s upbeat and contemporary side, such as her rendition of – he has released 10 full-length recordings since beginning his musical journey in 2005. the Tears for Fears 1985 hit, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” While this solo venture His list of awards is extensive and features a Juno, many ECMA and Music NS awards, represents a change for Heather, rest assured that her angelic voice remains as lovely as as well as wins at international songwriting competitions. David previously appeared ever. She will be accompanied by Ronald Hynes, Jamie Robinson, and Kim Dunn. at the Festival in 2008, 2011, and 2013. For this year’s Festival, David will be superbly SPONSORED BY LUNENBURG ARMS accompanied by Alan Jeffries and Kyle Cunjak. Thursday: 10:00 Main Stage SPONSORED BY LEANNE CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION Friday: 1:00 - 2:30 East Coast Circle, Lunenburg Opera House Thursday: 9:20 Main Stage Friday: 10:00 - 12:00 Alma Houston Talks: The Meaning of Folk, Lunenburg School of the Arts Hillsburn 1:00 - 2:30 East Coast Circle, Lunenburg Opera House 2016 was a big year for the musical quintet, Hillsburn. The Saturday: 4:00 - 5:00 St. John’s Anglican Church group released its critically-acclaimed, full-length album, In the Battle Years, won a Canadian Folk Music Award for Eilidh and Paul Buchanan New/Emerging Artist of the Year, and toured extensively – With a reputation for bringing out the best in young including a stop in Lunenburg, where they left an indelible performers, Eilidh and Paul Buchanan are enjoying well- mark on the Festival. Group members Paul Aarntzen, Clayton deserved ongoing success with Buchanan’s Music Centre, Burrill, Rosanna Burrill, Jackson Fairfax-Perry, and Clare a vibrant retail and teaching space which they opened in Macdonald got national attention when they reached the top 10 in CBC’s 2014 Searchlight 2010 in nearby Mahone Bay. Both are regular performers competition. Since then, they have been refining their sound and creating an identity all at a range of local venues and tour Nova Scotia in several their own. Their energetic show takes the audience through a range of emotions – from musical combos including their five-piece band, Flat Fifth (a hauntingly beautiful vocals to raucous, foot-stomping rhythms. Add to that, stunning Folk Harbour Folk Fiesta! winner.) Paul moved to Lunenburg in 2002. He met Eilidh at Folk harmonies and solid musicianship (they play, collectively, guitar, keyboards, violin, Harbour 2004 where she was performing with her band Brolum, from Scotland. The rest is saxophone, percussion, and more) and it’s easy to see why they were audience favourites romantic history. Music lovers appreciate the continued contributions Paul and Eilidh make last year. Currently, Hillsburn is working on a new recording, which will feature the to our Festival, our community, and especially our youth. already-released single, “Low Light.” Named for a small town on the Fundy Shore of the Saturday: 10:00 - 12:00 Youth Workshop: Val Meister Young, Central United Church Hall Annapolis Valley, Hillsburn now calls Halifax home. 1:30 - 2:00 Bandstand (with Val Meister Young Fiddlers) Thursday: 8:00 Main Stage Saturday: 4:30 - 5:00 Tall Ships Stage 11:30 Late Night. Lunenburg Curling Club Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage FEEDBACK SURVEY 1:00 - 2:00 St. John’s Anglican Church Don’t forget to go online and 3:00 - 4:30 Full Throttle, Lunenburg Opera House filll out a survery to let us know how we did: www.folkharbour.com
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Hodgepodge Jen Miller Hodgepodge is a group of talented girls from the South Jen Miller grew up in Nova Scotia in a very musical family. Shore who sing rich harmonies in a variety of styles. The At the tender age of 14, she learned a few guitar chords and group was formed to give young girls a voice and to teach started writing songs. Only five years later, Jen found herself harmony and small group singing. To celebrate the Tall opening for a local band at the Rebecca Cohn in Halifax. In Ships, Hodgepodge will be performing a large number of sea her mid-20s, Jen left all but her guitar behind to move to songs. The members of the group are Amelie Leefe, Maddie Vancouver, and discovered that she no longer wanted music Chiasson, Holly Genge, Ally Hillier, Jane Chiasson, and Tessa Ferguson. to be ‘just a hobby’. Since being back on the East Coast, Friday: 4:00 - 4:30 Tall Ships Stage Jen’s songs have been played on radio stations including Q104. Jen’s second full length Sunday: 2:00 - 2:30 Bandstand album was released in 2015 and was nominated for Country Album of the Year by Music Nova Scotia. Jamie Junger Saturday: 2:00 - 2:30 Bandstand At the age of nine, Jamie received his first guitar and began writing songs and learning classic tunes including “Farewell John Wort Hannam to Nova Scotia.” Jamie spent time in British Columbia, first in Victoria for a two-year stint in the Navy, and then in Born in the UK and raised in Alberta, John Wort Hannam Vancouver for 20 years. Whilst in Vancouver, Ja founded the earned a degree in Native American Studies and taught on bands Bob’s Your Uncle and The Wingnuts, and spent two reserve for five years. Things changed one spring morning decades recording and touring, as well as playing alongside about 15 years ago when John received the following advice artists including The Tragically Hip and The Bare Naked Ladies. In 1998, Jamie made his from his Dad: “You’re dead a long time, so you better get out way back to the East Coast, where he got married and began teaching music, all while there and make something beautiful.” The next day John quit continuing to write, to record, and to perform. his job, bought a guitar, wrote songs in his basement, and began touring. Since his career’s humble beginnings, this Lethbridge, AB-based musician Saturday: 3:00 - 4:00 Tall Ships Stage has been nominated for a Juno, three Western Canadian Music Awards, a North American 4:30 - 5:00 Bandstand Folk Alliance Award, and three Canadian Folk Music Awards, one of which he won in 2010 for Contemporary Album of the Year. On his six recordings and in his live performances, Jeff Davis John uses his honest voice to deliver captivating songs about the lives of simple working Jeff Davis has made more Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival folks. He has made two previous Folk Harbour appearances – in 2006 and 2011 – and appearances than any other artist, as both a performer and demonstrated to the audience that he was taking his father’s words to heart: John writes an emcee. A Lifetime Friend of the Festival, Jeff exemplifies truly beautiful songs that are highly compelling and packed full of emotion. what is at the heart of Folk Harbour. He has a passion for SPONSORED BY ROBITAILLE - DILLON FAMILY sharing stories and for preserving history through songs, Friday: 3:00 - 4:30 Americana Meets Canadiana, Central United Church and is one of America’s most respected collectors and Saturday: 9:20 Main Stage interpreters of traditional music. Jeff plays fiddle, banjo, Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage mandocello, guitar, spoons, jaw’s harps, and a few hand-made instruments. 1:00 - 2:30 The Story in the Song, Lunenburg Opera House Thursday: 7:00 - 11:00 Emcee, Main Stage 4:00 - 5:00 St. John’s Anglican Church Friday: 10:00 - 12:00 Alma Houston Talks: The Meaning of Folk, Lunenburg School of the Arts 3:30 - 4:00 Bandstand Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage 1:00 - 2:30 Old Time, Central United Church
Seats can only be reserved for friends until the end of the first song of any show.
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Kim Dunn Born and raised in North Sydney, Cape Breton, and now based in the Halifax region, Kim Dunn has been working on a successful music career for 30 years now, with a four-year stint studying jazz at St. Francis Xavier University thrown in for good measure. For much of his career, Kim has been the versatile and essential sideman to a veritable “who’s who” of East Coast artists; notably, Kim spent 14 years as a member of Rita MacNeil’s band. In 2010, he decided to take his own brand of songwriting and singing to the forefront and released his first solo project,Take This Hammer. He followed that with his highly anticipated 2016 recording, “Inspiration”. Both solo works showcase Kim’s well-crafted, heartfelt songs delivered with pitch-perfect tenor and incomparable musicianship. Inspiration was named Blues Recording of the Year by Music NS, and Kim himself was honoured with the first-ever Musician Special Achievement East Coast Music Award in 2003. Kim has performed on Folk Harbour Concert Series stages as a solo act and with others, but this is his first solo Festival appearance. Thursday: 3:00 - 3:30 Tall Ships Stage 7:00 Main Stage Saturday: 1:00 - 2:30 A Little Bit of R&B, Central United Church 3:30 - 4:00 Bandstand Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage
Lennie Gallant Lennie Gallant’s involvement with Folk Harbour can be Leslee Barry summed up succinctly: Lunenburg loves Lennie! And what’s not to love? The Rustico, PEI native has recorded Lunenburg native Leslee Barry has always known a eleven albums, has performed with symphonies and for community richly blessed with musical talent. As such, she troops in Afghanistan, has participated in tributes to the has gained an appreciation for the many genres of music, Titanic and Canada’s hockey heritage, and has even had different levels of talent, and forms of musical expression a his music sent into space. Adding to this impressive list is community can offer. For this reason, she shares her love his musical-theatre show, “Searching for Abegweit: The Island Songs & Stories of Lennie of music with young people in her vocal/piano studio and in Gallant.” Hailed as a runaway theatrical hit, this show is a musical love letter to Prince the community choral concerts she spearheads and directs. Edward Island featuring his folk, roots, and rock music in combination with stories, Island A strong believer in encouraging young musicians, Leslee is grateful for the opportunities legends, and poignant tales. Not surprisingly, Lennie has shelves of awards including that Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival provides. 2017 ECMA nods for Folk Recording of the Year (for Searching for Abegweit) and Fans’ Friday: 10:00 - 12:00 Youth Workshop: Youth Choir, Central United Church Hall Choice Entertainer of the Year. He has also been inducted into the Order of Canada for his 1:30 - 2:30 Bandstand (Youth Choir) significant contributions to Canadian culture. For his ninth Folk Harbour appearance, he will be joined on stage by Jeremy Gallant, Sean Kemp, Patricia Richard, and Jon Gallant. Mady Frellick SPONSORED BY THE KNOT PUB Mady Frellick is a 17- year-old student based in Lunenburg, Thursday: Folk Steps Conference, Zion Lutheran Church NS. Mady has had an interest in folk music since she was Friday: 1:00 - 2:30 East Coast Circle, Lunenburg Opera House a young child in Lunenburg County while learning the 10:00 Main Stage flute, piano, guitar and singing. She now takes part in local Saturday: 3:00 - 4:00 St. John’s Anglican Church music events, open mics, the Lunenburg and District Music Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage Festival, and the Mahone Bay Tea and Biscuits Choir. This 1:00 - 2:30 The Story in the Song, Lunenburg Opera House is Mady’s second year participating in the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival, where she preforms a variety of folk music and original songs. Friday: 1:00 - 3:30 Tall Ships Stage Saturday: 2:30 - 3:00 Bandstand
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Rebecca Jordan Rev. Robert B. Jones Rebecca Jordan began dancing as a young gal, but didn’t The Reverend Robert B. Jones, Sr. is a pastor, storyteller, find her path with highland and step dance until she was teacher, and activist. He is also a self-taught multi- a teen. Trained in traditional highland dancing and Cape instrumentalist who plays guitar, mandolin, harmonica, Breton step dancing, she has performed and competed cane fife, and fiddle. An award-winning educator, he has an internationally and is now an instructor. Dance embodies all encyclopedic knowledge of the history of African American things powerful to Rebecca. Its beauty, strength, creativity, folk music, including blues, spirituals, and slave songs. He and heart provide a release that feeds the mind and body. strongly believes that he has a responsibility to pass on blues Rebecca has been a representative for Nova Scotia at a national level and is proud to say music and culture to the next generation, so he makes characters come to life in his songs she competed in Scotland at the World Highland Dance Championship. and stories. A cultural force in his native Detroit, as well as on the international blues Friday: 10:00 - 12:00 Dance Workshop: Scotich Cettic, St. John’s Parish Hall scene, Rev. Jones has been performing professionally for 30 years at festivals, schools, Saturday: 10:00 - 12:00 Dance Workshop: Irish Celtic, St. John’s Parish Hall churches, and for civil rights organizations. Considered by some to be the best roots and blues educator in the world, he will no doubt entertain and inform during his inaugural Red Moon Road Festival appearance. Red Moon Road made its debut at Folk Harbour in 2014 and Friday: 10:00 - 12:00 Alma Houston Talks: The Meaning of Folk, Lunenburg School of the Arts left a lasting impression on the audience. Band members 3:00 - 4:30 Americana Meets Canadiana, Central United Church Daniel Peloquin-Hopfner, Daniel Jordan, and Sheena Rattai 7:30 Main Stage produce a sound that seems greater than the sum of its Saturday: 10:00 - 12:00 Vocal Workshop: Gospel, St. John’s Anglican Church parts. The Daniels come from different musical backgrounds 3:00 - 3:30 Bandstand – progressive metal and jazz – and play mandolin, lap steel, Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage banjo, and organ, while Sheena adds her choir-trained vocals 3:00 - 4:30 Blues, Central United Church to complete the trio’s sound. The parts weave together to create a tapestry of song that is equally at home at campfires or concert halls. Their impressive, well-choreographed, Rosie & the Riveters live shows feature impeccable three-part harmonies, a roots drum kit, split interestingly Rosie & the Riveters are three fiercely talented and sassy and pragmatically between two band members, and an acoustic guitar rigged to also be dames from Saskatoon, SK, who perform upbeat folk music a bass. Throw in a healthy dose of engaging stage presence and you will see why the with a vintage 1940s flair. Their original songs feature Winnipeg group is rapidly amassing fans. Their third recording, Sorrows and Glories, was sophisticated harmonies, body percussion, scintillating dance released in 2015. moves, humour, and just enough ooh-la-la to keep your toes Friday: 10:00 - 11:00 Vocal Workshop: Harmony, St. John’s Anglican Church tapping long after the show is over. Since forming in 2011, 1:00 - 2:30 Trio of Trios, Central United Church Rosie & the Riveters have taken the folk scene by storm, Saturday: 10:00 - 12:00 Vocal Workshop: Gospel, St. John’s Anglican Church selling out venues across Canada and earning much critical praise; CBC Radio 2 host, Rich 1:00 - 2:30 Prairie Circle, Lunenburg Opera House Terfry, calls them “one of the best live acts you’ll ever see.” Inspired by the WWII feminist 6:00 - 8:00 Sail on Board Fundraiser, Bluenose II icon for whom the band is named, the members of the group – Allyson Reigh, Alexis Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage Normand, and Farideh Olsen – seek to empower women to be ambassadors for change 3:00 - 4:00 St. John’s Anglican Church within their own communities. To this end, they invest 20% of their merchandise profits 8:30 Main Stage to help finance other women’s projects around the world. Hilarious, charming, and highly entertaining, we welcome Rosie & the Riveters to Folk Harbour for the first time. SPONSORED BY CAICO MAE CLOTHIERS Friday: 10:00 - 11:00 Youth Workshop: Youth Choir, Central United Church Hall 1:30 – 2:00 Bandstand (with Youth Choir) 3:00 - 4:30 Harmonize, Lunenburg Opera House Saturday: 1:00 - 2:30 Prairie Circle, Lunenburg Opera House 4:00 - 4:30 Bandstand, 7:30 Main Stage Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage
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Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar Shannon Quinn Upon hearing the first few notes, audience members Hailing from Halifax, NS, Shannon Quinn has been playing are struck by the sheer magnitude of Samantha Martin’s music professionally for over 16 years. In that time, she has other-worldly voice. Cigarette-ravaged and whiskey-soaked, performed with Symphony Nova Scotia, with her father, her vocals can bring listeners to tears in one instance and Tony, and as a solo performer. For her first-ever Folk Harbour raise their souls in the next. Over the years, she has moved appearance, she is joined by Decota McNamara and Alan from classic R&B and rockabilly toward a gospel-tinged Murray. A graduate of Humber College’s music program, and soulful sound; throughout it all, Samantha’s voice has Shannon’s background is in traditional Celtic music; however, remained gritty and full of early rock and roll attitude. The five-time Maple Blues award she effortlessly adds elements of jazz to beautifully express herself through her art. A nominee is primarily known for her vocals, although her songwriting, influenced by gospel highly proficient fiddle player, she also possesses a gorgeous voice. She launched her solo and southern soul, with hints of roots and pop, reveals her as an old soul with wisdom career in 2008 with the release of The Irwin Lake Sessions and followed that with her beyond her years. The Edmonton-born singer and guitarist, who now calls Toronto home, 2015 recording, If All the Young Ladies; the latter album was the winner of Music NS’s is making her Festival debut with the backing of Delta Sugar: Stacie Tabb and Sherie 2016 Roots / Traditional Album of the Year and New Artist Recording of the Year awards. Marshall on vocals and percussion and Michael McCallum on electric guitar. Samantha An apparent gap between these two recordings could be explained by an impressive tour Martin & Delta Sugar’s 2015 recording, Send the Nightingale, is packed full of dazzling schedule that had Shannon playing shows across Canada and around the world. guitar work and stunning three-part harmonies. Friday: 1:00 - 1:30 Bandstand Friday: 4:00 - 5:00 St John’s Anglican Church Saturday: 10:00 - 11:30 Dance Workshop: Irish Celtic, St. John’s Anglican Parish Hall 11:30 - 12:30 Late Night, Lunenburg Curling Club 3:00 - 4:30 Celtic-Acadian Fusion, Lunenburg Opera House Saturday: 1:00 - 2:30 A Little Bit of R&B, Central United Church 10:30 - 11:30 Late Night,Lunenburg Curling Club 10:00 Main Stage Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage 2:00 - 3:00 St. John’s Anglican Church 3:00 - 4:30 Blues, Central United Church 7:00 Main Stage
Sandy Greenberg & Thomas Cormier - Shelley Posen Razzmatazz for Kids Shelley Posen is a songwriter, author, and performer As the duo Razzmatazz for Kids, Sandy Greenberg and of his own and traditional songs. His songs are widely Thomas Cormier will get you hugging someone you love, recognized for their wit, craftsmanship, and their profound clucking like a chicken, riding a bumpy bus, singing, hopping, effect on listeners. At home in both academic and folksong dancing, clapping your hands, or performing on stage with performance worlds, Shelley wrote “The Songfinder” column them at their concert of fun, original children’s songs. for Sing Out!, the venerable American folk music quarterly, When they are not entertaining children by performing as and as Dr. Sheldon Posen, served as Curator of Folklore and Razzmatazz for Kids, Sandy and Thomas delight in sharing Folklife at Canada’s national museum. Shelley also wrote the book For Singing and Dancing their favourite songs with all ages. and All Sorts of Fun for his Ph.D. Folklore thesis – on sale at the Festival! Friday: 10:00 - 10:50 Tall Ships Stage Thursday: Folk Steps Conference, Zion Lutheran Church (keynote speaker) 3:00 - 3:30 Bandstand
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Sussex The Barrowdowns Sussex is the brainchild of Michael Emenau and Rob Lutes. Diverse instrumentation and five-part vocal harmonies The two renowned musicians were childhood friends and characterize the distinct, alternative folk sound of The high school band mates in New Brunswick. They went their Barrowdowns. Born in the Albertan winter in 2014, the band separate ways following university: Michael to Tokyo, San was started by Halifax musicians Kendra Breen and Rowan Francisco, and Paris, where he made a name for himself Swain. Upon moving back to Nova Scotia, the duo joined as a world-class jazz percussionist and composer, and Rob forces with Halifax musicians Dave Fultz, Adam Martin, and to Montreal, where he has recorded six albums and earned Neal Read to create folk music that is both energetic and a reputation as one of Canada’s finest songwriters and roots performers. Reunited in spellbinding. The Barrowdowns released an eponymous EP in 2016, with the group’s first 2012, the pair began to write together for the first time in 20 years. Encouraged by the full-length recording, “Come What May Come”, released in spring of 2017. The quintet results, they enlisted the services of some of Montreal’s finest musicians and produced brings a multi-instrumental, harmony-filled show to Folk Harbour for the first time. their first recording, Parade Day, in 2015. This album is an astonishing blend that defies Saturday: 3:00 - 4:30 Home Grown, Central United Church classification, but is essentially a modern take on the early jazz, blues, and folk sounds Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage that were the primary influences on the two musicians. Rob Lutes last brought his hook- 1:00 - 2:30 Old Time, Central United Church laden songs and richly textured vocals to Folk Harbour in 2013; this is his first appearance 4:30 - 5:00 Bandstand with jazz vibraphonist Michael as the duo, Sussex. 7:30 Main Stage Thursday: Folk Steps Conference, Zion Lutheran Church (Rob Lutes only) Saturday: 3:00 - 4:30 Home Grown, Central United Church The Dory Bungholes Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage The Dory Bungholes have been entertaining Nova Scotians 1:00 - 1:30 Bandstand with their own take on sea chanties and sea music for 3:00 - 4:30 Blues, Central United Church almost 25 years. Academically knowledgeable and strongly 8:00 Main Stage rooted in the tradition, the “Bungs” nevertheless embrace change and have been called the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Suzie Vinnick Young of sea chanties due to their exciting arrangements and Suzie Vinnick is a ten-time Maple Blues Award winner, stirring harmonies. You will be utterly beguilded. a three-time Juno nominee, the winner of the 2012 CBC Friday: 1:00 - 3:30 Tall Ships Stage Saturday Night Blues Great Canadian Blues Award, and 4:00 - 4:30 Bandstand a finalist in the 2013 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN. Born in Saskatchewan and based in Ontario, Suzie is a highly accomplished guitar and bass player who possesses a voice that is warm, rich, powerful, and engaging. Her 2012 release, Live at Bluesville, is a collection of roots, blues, and gospel tunes featuring Suzie and her parlour guitar, Mabel. Suzie has four previous solo albums, including Me ‘N’ Mabel (2011), and six with other folks. She is a Folk Harbour favourite, having appeared on our Festival stage many times since 2004, as a solo act, with Rick Fines, and with the Marigolds. This year, she was the headliner at our annual Folk Fiesta! fundraising concert. Friday: 2:00 - 3:00 St John’s Anglican Church Saturday: 10:00 - 12:00 Alma Houston Talks: Women Who Inspire Me, Lunenburg School of the Arts 1:00 - 2:30 Prairie Circle, Lunenburg Opera House 8:30 Main Stage Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage 3:00 - 4:30 Blues, Central United Church
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The Once Union Duke Newfoundland’s indie-folk trio, The Once, has collected a trio Union Duke is a Toronto quintet with a sound that is a of Canadian Folk Music Awards, numerous ECMA awards, mixture of folk, rock, country, and bluegrass. Blending these and the title of Artist of the Year from the Newfoundland sounds perfectly, the group belts out soaring harmonies with and Labrador Arts Council. Originally known for haunting three, four, and even five voices. The group’s live show is interpretations of traditional music, The Once is finding its energetic, almost explosive, as sweat flies and floorboards own songwriting voice with the release of the 2016 EP, We tremble. Band members Ethan Smith, Jim McDonald, Win Some We Lose. The group features Geraldine Hollett on Matt Warry-Smith, Will Staunton, and Rob McLaren are lead vocals and Phil Churchill and Andrew Dale playing a variety of instruments and adding hard-working troubadours, travelling back and forth across the country, playing countless vocals, allowing for three-part harmonies to rise above the instruments. They formed ten shows at clubs and festivals; in the process, they have amassed fans, young and old, years ago and found themselves on the Folk Harbour stage in 2008. When announced they from coast to coast. Their debut album, Bandits & Bridges, was released in 2013 and was would make a CD when they had the funds, a generous Folk Harbour audience member followed a year later with Cash & Carry. Their most recent offering,Golden Days (2016), offered them money to record the album. The resulting, self-titled CD was released in 2009 was recorded live off the floor to capture the raw, joyful energy of their concerts. The and followed by offerings in 2011 Row( Upon Row of the People They Know) and 2014 members of Union Duke perform with infectious, foot-stomping, banjo-rambling, guitar- (Departures). The Once’s last Folk Harbour performance was in 2013. wailing enthusiasm. They are taking the world by storm, one captivating performance at a SPONSORED BY PAT MCGOWAN & DENNIS CARTER time, and their first-ever Folk Harbour appearance is sure to be a must-see. Friday: 11:00 - 12:00 Vocal Workshop: Harmony, St. John’s Anglican Church SPONSORED BY SMUGGLER’S COVE INN 1:00 - 2:30 Trio of Trios, Central United Church Friday: 3:00 - 4:30 Harmonize, Lunenburg Opera House 9:20 Main Stage 10:30 - 11:30 Late Night,Lunenburg Curling Club Saturday: 2:00 - 3:00 St. John’s Anglican Church Saturday: 1:00 - 1:30 Bandstand Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage 8:00 Main Stage Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage The Yarmouth Shantymen 3:00 - 4:30 Full Throttle, Lunenburg Opera House Based in Yarmouth, NS, the Yarmouth Shantymen have been performing traditional work songs since 1984. They have produced three CD collections of shanties and sea songs, and the Shantymen perform in a variety of venues for a multitude of different gatherings. The Shantymen hold their practices in the home of one of the band members, and review tunes old and new. While the Yarmouth Shantymen draw inspiration from other shanty singers, they will always bring their own multi-harmonied, personal Yarmouth Shantymen touch to their performances. Friday: 1:00 - 3:30 Tall Ships Stage 4:30 - 5:00 Bandstand
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 28 29 ARTIST BIOS EMCEES BIOS Vishtèn EMCEE BIOS For over a decade, the Acadian trio, Vishtèn, has dazzled audiences with its fiery blend of traditional French songs Angela Churchill and original instrumentals that fuse Celtic and Acadian Angela Churchill serves on Folk Harbour’s Program genres with indie-folk and rock influences. The group is Committee, is the Chair of the Youth Committee, and is the made up of multi-instrumentalists Emmanuelle and Pastelle regular emcee of our Concert Series. Angela enjoys all types LeBlanc, from the Evangeline Region of PEI, and Pascal of music, but her first love is folk. She is happiest when Miousse, a native of the Magdalen Islands. The members of knitting or gardening, sometimes with the “help” of her cat, the trio were raised in homes in which traditional music, percussive dance, and good old- Stanley. She works in the local yarn shop, Have a Yarn, and fashioned kitchen parties were the stuff of everyday life. Together they pay homage to their takes this interest further by creating patterns and teaching traditions and to the strong musical connections between their two Acadian communities. classes on knitting techniques. These three powerful and energetic musicians have crafted a unique sound that combines Saturday: 11:00 - 12:30 Lunenburg Curling Club original compositions, traditional French Acadian songs, and virtuosic instrumentals.
The infectious rhythms of tapping feet blend seamlessly with an impressive array of instruments. Vishtèn is a much-decorated group, having received four East Coast Music Betty Jean Aucoin Awards, including one for its 2016 recording, Terre Rouge. One of the most respected Betty Jean Aucoin is an educator who was a teacher, bands in the international folk music scene, Vishtèn tours extensively, proudly keeping principal, and coordinator for the South Shore Regional Acadian music fresh and relevant. They last played the Festival in 2006. School Board for 21 years. For the past ten years, Betty Jean Friday: 10:00 - 12:00 Alma Houston Talks: The Meaning of Folk, Lunenburg School of the Arts has been an Executive Staff Officer in charge of professional 1:00 - 2:30 Trio of Trios, Central United Church development for the Nova Scotia Teachers Union. Betty 8:30 Main Stage Jean has presented locally, provincially, nationally, and Saturday: 1:00 - 2:00 St. John’s Anglican Church internationally on a number of topics related to education. 3:00 - 4:30 Celtic-Acadian Fusion, Lunenburg Opera House Betty Jean makes her home on Fancy Lake in Lunenburg County. Saturday: 1:00 - 5:00 Lunenbuirg Opera House Willie Stratton Willie Stratton’s show is made up of stories, singin’, and Bill Plaskett hot guitar pickin’. In his art, Willie works to preserve and to promote the rich, and nearly forgotten, country music Bill Plaskett is the perfect host for this year’s Folk Steps heritage of Atlantic Canada – from local yodeling styles Conference that celebrates “place,” since Bill is a Lifetime that haven’t seen the airwaves since the time of the great Friend of the Festival and one of the founders of the Hank Snow, to the musical delivery and whit of Wilf Carter Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival. The original vision for the and Hal Lone Pine. With this musical history in tow, he Festival was that Folk Harbour would be a place where and sideman Mike Kerr take these coveted music styles to new places with refreshing, North Atlantic nations would meet for an annual songfest. youthful energy and a true and deep love for the craft. Willie delighted the audience at the Bill was a member of Folk Harbour’s beloved house band, 2017 Folk Fiesta! concert in April; this is his first Festival appearance. Starb’ard Side, and is currently busy performing with his son, Joel, in support of their recent album, Solidarity. Friday: 2:30 - 3:00 Bandstand Saturday: 4:00 - 4:30 Tall Ships Stage Thursday: 9:00 - 4:00 Folk Steps Conference, Zion’s Lutheran Church 7:00 Main Stage Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday Morning Gospel Concert, Main Stage 1:00 - 2:30 Old Time, Central United Church
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Bill Roach Jeff Lohnes Bill Roach is the host of CBC Radio One’s Weekend Mornings, This is Jeff’s 20th year at Folk Harbour Festival! Originally heard throughout the Maritimes on Saturdays and Sundays. from Lunenburg, he is a partner in a boutique speaker and He also hosts CBC Radio’s East Coast Music Hour. Growing up creative talent management firm in Toronto. Jeff is also the all over Cape Breton, Bill developed a keen interest in radio. Curator of TEDxToronto, though his main passion is spreading Music trivia fills a big space in Bill’s head; that knowledge the spirit of the east coast and this year he helped launch often comes in handy for the multi-genre offerings on Drunken Sailor Donair Spice to spread the famed Nova Weekend Mornings. His music collection contains everything Scotian snack with the world. from Burl Ives to Mastodon, and he has a soft spot for Broadway musicals and fiddle Sunday: 1:00 - 5:00 Lunenburg Opera House music. Bill is an enthusiastic supporter of Maritime musicians and a frequent Folk Harbour emcee, having hosted our last two Folk Fiesta! concerts. Jerri Southcott Sunday: 7:00 - 11:00 Main Stage Jerri Southcott is a CBC journalist in Halifax. Her radio and television career spans more than 20 years and includes Darrin Harvey stops in Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto. Jerri moved to Nova Darrin Harvey is a veteran broadcaster with over 25 years Scotia’s South Shore two-and- a-half-years ago with her experience in both radio and TV. His radio career takes place husband. Since arriving, she has worked for News 95.7, in the Annapolis Valley, with the exception of his role as a LighthouseNow newspaper, and CKBW before landing at CBC producer/researcher on the syndicated blues show, The earlier this year. She is a supporter of the arts and has been Blues Own. He is the morning show host on 89.3 K-Rock and a long-time volunteer for the Terry Fox Foundation. is the host of East Coast Music Unplugged on Eastlink TV. Friday: 1:00 - 5:00 Lunenburg Opera House Darrin also studies music, is the lead singer and harmonica Saturday: 10:00 - 12:00 Lunenbuirg School of the Arts player for No Name Blues Band, and performs with the 15-piece dance band Bluesmobile. Friday: 7:00 - 11:00 Main Stage
Don Osburn Don has a long association with Folk Harbour as a performer, as an emcee, and as an organizer. He first appeared at Folk Harbour in 1990 with a solo appreance and as a member of The Lustre Brothers. Don and his wife Anna co-chaired Folk Harbour’s Program Committee for three years before launching the Deep Roots Music Festival in Wolfville in 2003. Each is a Lifetime Friend of the Festival. Thursday: 7:00 - 11:00 Main Stage
Hank Middleton Hank Middleton is a retired educator who is also a prolific songwriter. He has written music for the Lunenburg Dinner Theatre Company and the South Shore Players, and has penned six musical comedies for schools across the province. Hank is one of the co-writers of the popular Glimpses show now in its tenth season at the Lunenburg Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic. With various musical friends, he has released three CDs: Scenes of Home, Middletunes, and Middletunes II: Messages. He is also the current chair of Habitat for Humanity, South Shore Chapter. Friday: 1:00 - 5:00 Bandstand Saturday: 1:00 - 5:00 Bandstand 2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 33 EMCEES BIOS
Liz Hamilton Liz has been involved with Folk Harbour since her hair was brown. Her various Folk Harbour jobs include designing T-shirts, providing security, baking, billeting, funding, publicity, and now acting as an emcee. It has all been done with the belief that it takes a whole town to make Folk Harbour a success.
Friday: 1:00 - 5:00 St. John’s Anglican Church
Margo Carruthers Though known primarily to Lunenburg audiences as a traditional singer and teacher of Gaelic language and songs, Margo Carruthers is known to others as a classical guitarist, storyteller, and actor. As Artistic Director of Theatre Folk, Margo created a much-heralded theatrical and musical series that showcased selected works from Dr. Helen Creighton and other notable Atlantic Canadian collectors. Saturday: 1:00 - 5:00 St. John’s Anglican Church Sunday: 1:00 - 5:00 St. John’s Anglican Church
Pat Watson Jonathan Crouse George Elliott Clark describes the voice of Pat Watson as South Shore born Jonathan Crouse grew up on the being “heavenly even when it is mostly earthly.” Pat has family beef farm, which he still operates just outside of been singing jazz and gospel music for most of her life, and Bridgewater. He is the morning man for Country 100.7 she does this with obvious joy. She won the African Nova and is also the creator and host of That East Coast Show Scotia Award for Rising Star in 2009 and has performed at Sunday nights on CKBW. It is his work with the East Coast the Halifax Jazz Festival, Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival, Music scene that lead to the creation of the Riverfest music and Harmony Bazaar Music Festival. She has also performed festival, the 13th annual being held this year. in different musical productions in Nova Scotia and Philadelphia, PA Saturday: 7:00 - 11:00 Main Stage Friday: 10:00 - 12:00 St. John’s Anglican Church Saturday: 10:00 - 12:00 St. John’s Anglican Church Leigh Heide Sunday: 1:00 - 5:00 Central United Church Leigh Heide is a theatre artist and youth worker from Mahone Bay, NS. She has been performing, in one way or Sunny Ochs another, since she was a child and now, has the great joy A perennial volunteer at many festivals, including Lunenburg of teaching theatre skills to young people as the Youtheatre Folk Harbour, Sonny hosts a weekly radio show on WIOX in Coordinator at Mermaid Theatre. She is also the Youth Roxbury, NY, produces a monthly concert series at her local Services Coordinator at Second Story Women’s Centre. She library, and has, for the past 30 years, organized the Phil enjoys every aspect of the arts and considers herself an avid Ochs Song Nights. She also wears many hats at Northeast appreciator of all music genres. She has been attending Folk Harbour regularly since she Regional Folk Alliance. was a babe in arms. Friday: 11:00 - 12:30 Lunenburg Curling Club Friday: 1:00 - 5:00 Central United Church Sunday: 1:00 - 5:00 Bandstand Sarurday: 1:00 - 5:00 Central United Church
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Friday & Saturday Thursday JOIN US ON AUGUST 10 JOIN US LATE NIGHT | $15 COVER + CASH BAR TIME ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH TIME AT THE LUNENBURG CURLING CLUB Host Bill Plaskett Host 9:00 Folk Steps Conference 9:00 - Something to Sing About - Celebrating Place in the Atlantic - TIME FRIDAY, AUGUST 11 SATURDAY, AUGUST 12 Region 4:00 4:00 Keynote: Shelley Posen Emcee Leigh Heide Angela Churchill Alan Syliboy, Lennie Gallant, Amelia Curran, Rob Lutes Chelsea Amber 10:30 PM Union Duke Shannon Quinn - TIME MAIN STAGE TIME 11:20 PM Emcee Jeff Davis and Don Osburn Emcee 11:30 PM Samantha Martin and Hillsburn 7:00 Kim Dunn, Cassie and Maggie, Hillsburn, Amelia Curran 7:00 - Delta Sugar ain (Intermission) 12:30 AM David Myles, Heather Rankin
JIM PITTMAN SCHOLARSHIP LUNENBURG AND DISTRICT MUSIC FESTIVAL
Jim Pittman was one of the founders of the Lunenburg Folk Harbour We are pleased to present the Folk Harbour Festival Awards to two outstanding Festival. He was a poet and songwriter and called himself the “Singing performers. Along with the award, we offer them the opportunity to perform at Festival. Cook.” Jim was born in Lunenburg, the son of a sea captain and loved to sing folk songs and sea shanties. In 1983, Jim and Bill Plaskett Junior Winner: Ally Hillier became friends and began writing songs together and ultimately My name is Ally Hillier, and I am super excited to be performing started the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival in 1986. in Folk Harbour this year! I am 16 years old and have been singing for eight years, and am completely in love with it. I was Jim died on December 27, 1996 at the age of 59. Shortly after, the Lunenburg Folk Harbour extremely happy this year to have won the Folk Harbour award Society established the Jim Pittman Awards in his honour. In 2016, the awards program at my local music festival because folk is one of my favourite was changed to a scholarship program to increase our support for the young musicians genres to sing! and music teachers in Lunenburg County. Applications are reviewed anonymously and Sunday: 1:30 - 1:40 Bandstand selections are made based on merit as demonstrated by responses to the questions on the application. Senior Winner: Emma Wheeler This year, we are dedicating the scholarships to Heather and David Abriel. Thanks to the My name is Emma Wheeler and I live in Mahone Bay. I am kind generiousty of friends of the family, we are able to give an additional scholarship, 17 years old and attend Park View Education Centre. I have giving four students the ability to take local music lessons. loved music for as long as I can remember and was singing and dancing from a very young age. I grew up in a musical 2017 Jim Pittman Scholarship Winners: Ben Inglis, Mady Frellick, Samadi Morgan, family who sang, danced, or played a musical instrument and Josianne Driscoll of some kind. I was tap dancing at four and playing fiddle at six. I started piano lessons at age eight and voice lessons at nine and participated in the music festival for both. The folk songs have always been my favorite class to take part in. I started teaching myself to play guitar in grade nine and “May your cod end have continued with guitar class for two years at Parkview. I will be performing at the Bandstand at the Folk Harbour Festival and am extremely excited and honoured to be always be full.” given this amazing opportunity. Music has always been a big part of my life, and I cannot wait to share my love of music this summer. Jim P. Pittman Sunday: 1:45 - 1:55 Bandstand 2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 36 37 SCHEDULE | FRIDAY FRIDAY | SCHEDULE TIME Emcee 7:00 TIME Host 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 Emcee 1:00 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 AUGUST 11 AUGUST BANDSTAND Sponsor: Investments Stellar Hank Middleton Shannon Quinn and the Riveters Rosie Choir) (with the Youth Chelsea Amber (with Choir) the Youth Stratton Willie and Sandy Greenburg Thomas Cormier KMP Davis Jeff The Dory Bungholes The Yarmouth Shantymen KMP ON
LUNENBURG OPERA HOUSE Sponsor: LTD Farblack Jerri Southcott Circle Coast East Lennie Gallant Amelia Curran Myles David Heather Rankin Harmonize Jeffries Alan Band Bluegrass and the Rosie Riveters Union Duke JOIN US
CENTRAL UNITED CHURCH Hall in Church *Mornings are BarryLeslee Workshop: Youth Choir Youth and the Riveters, Rosie BarryLeslee Workshop: Youth Choir Youth Leslee Chelsea Amber, Barry Ochs Sonny Trios of Trio The Once Moon Road Red Vishten Canadiana Americana Meets Hannam, Dar John Wort B. Robert Rev. Williams, and Maggie Jones, Cassie
ST. JOHN’S ST. CHURCH ANGLICAN Sponsor: North America Stelia Watson Pat Workshop: Vocal Harmony Moon Road Red Workshop: Vocal Harmony The Once Liz Hamilton Dar Williams Suzie Vinnick Amelia Curran Samantha Martin and Delta Sugar
LUNENBURG SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Davis Jeff Talks: Houston Alma Folk The Meaning of Myles, David B. Jones Robert Rev. Vishtèn
MAIN STAGE Darrin Harvey Vishten Quartet, Bluegrass Jeffreis B. Jones, Alan Rober Rev. Chelsea Amber, (Intermission) Lennie Gallant The Once, ST. JOHN’S ST. ANGLICAN HALL PARISH Jordan Rebecca Dance Workshop: Celtic Scottish and Cassie Maggie TIME Emcee 7:00 TIME Host 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 Emcee 1:00 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 Friday
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 38 39 SCHEDULE | SATURDAY SATURDAY | SCHEDULE TIME Host 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 Emcee 1:00 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 TIME Emcee 7:00 AUGUST 12 AUGUST BANDSTAND Sponsor: Investments Stellar Hank Middleton Union Duke and Maggie Cassie Meister (with the Val Fiddlers) Young KMP Jen Miller KMP Mady Frellick B. Jones Robert Rev. Kim Dunn and the Riveters Rosie Jamie Junger KMP ON LUNENBURG OPERA HOUSE Sponsor: LTD Farblack Jean Aucoin Betty Circle Prairie Suzie Vinnick Moon Road Red and the Rosie Riveters Celtic-Acadian Fusion and Cassie Maggie Vishtèn Shannon Quinn JOIN US Val Val
CENTRAL UNITED CHURCH Hall in Church *Mornings are Eilidh Buchanan Workshop: Youth Fiddlers Young Meister and Maggie Cassie Bachanan Eilidh & Paul Ochs Sonny R&B Bit of A Little Kim Dunn, Chelsea Amber Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar Home Grown Sussex The Barrowdowns
ST. JOHN’S ST. CHURCH ANGLICAN Sponsor: North America Stelia Watson Pat Workshop: Vocal Gospel B. Robert Rev. Jones Moon Road Red Carruthers Margo Vishtèn The Once Lennie Gallant Myles David LUNENBURG SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Jerri Southcott Talks: Houston Alma Who Women Me Inspire Dar Williams Suzie Vinnick Chelsea Amber MAIN STAGE Jonathan Crouse Suzie Vinnick Union Duke, and the Riveters, Rosie Stratton, Willie (Intermission) Hannam, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar John Wort ST. JOHN’S ST. ANGLICAN HALL PARISH Jordan Rebecca Dance Workshop: Irish Celtic Shannon Quinn TIME Emcee 7:00 TIME Host 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 Emcee 1:00 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 Saturday
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 40 41 SCHEDULE | SUNDAY SUNDAY | SCHEDULE TIME Host 10:00 - 12:00 TIME Emcee 7:00 TIME Emcee 1:00 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 AUGUST 13 AUGUST ON BANDSTAND Sponsor: Investments Stellar Leigh Heide Sussex Music Festival Lunenburg Winners Hodgepodge KMP and Maggie Cassie KMP Caribou Run Chelsea Amber The Barrowdowns JOIN US
LUNENBURG OPERA HOUSE Sponsor: LTD Farblack Lohnes Jeff The Story in the Song Hannam, Lennie Gallant, John Wort Dar Williams Amelia Curran, Throttle Full Hillsburn Union Duke
CENTRAL UNITED CHURCH Watson Pat Time Old Stratton, Willie Davis, Jeff The Barrowdowns Blues Suzzie Vinnick Sussex B. Jones Robert Rev. Samantha Martin and Delta Sugar Sponsor: HIgh Liner Foods MAIN STAGE MAIN STAGE Moon Road B. Jones and Red Robert Rev. Morning Gospel Concert Sunday Rosie and the Kim Dunn, Lennie Gallant, Davis, Jeff Hannam, Hillsburn, John Wort and Maggie, Chelsea Amber, Cassie Amelia Curran, and Willie Union Duke, The Once, Suzie Vinnick, The Barrowdowns, Shannon Quinn, Sussex, Samantha Martin and Delta Sugar, Riveters, Stratton MAIN STAGE Roach Bill Moon Road Red Sussex, Shannon Quinn, The Barrowdowns, (Intermission) MacIsaac Ashley Dar Williams, ST. JOHN’S ANGLICAN JOHN’S ANGLICAN ST. CHURCH Sponsor: North America Stelia Carruthers Margo Hillsburn Shannon Quinn Moon Road Red Hannam John Wort TIME Host 10:00 - 12:00 TIME Emcee 7:00 TIME Emcee 1:00 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 Sunday
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 42 43 VENUE MAP VENUE MAP
* PARKING & SHUTTLE SERVICES Visitors to the Tall Ships as well as Folk Harbour Festival are invited to designated parking areas on the edge of town and walk and/or ride the free shuttles. Lots will be attended and parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis in the following areas:
• Lunenburg Community Center 19 Green Street (170 spaces) • Old Ultramar Site on Hwy 3 (80 spaces) n venue: St. John's Parish Hall St. John's Parish n venue: ai • Railway Museum 11188 Hwy 3 (100 spaces) Main Stage Tent/Box Office Main Stage Tent/Box and Campground Centre Visitors’ the Atlantic Fisheries Museum of House Opera Lunenburg Office/ Box Festival Folk Harbour Office Hall Church United Central Church United Central Bandstand Heritage Society Lunenburg St. John’s Anglican Church St. John’s Hall Anglican Parish St. John’s Church Zion Lutheran Curling Club Lunenburg the Arts School of Lunenburg Seaport Lunenburg Keller Williams Office Williams Keller • Starr Street (400 spaces)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 * These sites will be serviced by two shuttle buses on a continuous basis from 9:00am to 11:30pm Thursday through Sunday with service at each site approximately every 10 minutes. Festival Main Stage ticket holders are invited to use the parking area provided by our sponsor, High Liner Foods at 1000 Battery Point Road and walk and/or ride the free shuttles. The lot will be attended and parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis. The site will be serviced by four shuttle buses on a continuous basis from 5:00pm to 11:30pm Thursday through Sunday with service approximately every 5 minutes. The visit the interactive online map at http://www.lunenburgns.com for real-time updates regarding availability.
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 44 45 FOLK STEPS CONFERENCE FOLK STEPS CONFERENCE FOLK STEPS CONFERENCE 2017 FOLK STEPS PRESENTERS ALAN SYLIBOY | NOVA SCOTIA SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT – CELEBRATING PLACE IN THE ATLANTIC REGION is a celebrated Mi’kma’ki performer who is known for a THURSDAY, AUGUST 10 | ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH seamless blending of Mi’kmaq tradition and modern style. 9:00AM-4:00PM | COST: $40 Accompanying him at the Festival this year are Hubert *Folk Steps is included in a Festival Pass and/or a Thursday Day Pass Francis, Evan Syliboy, and Lukas Pearse; together they are Alan Syliboy and the Thundermakers. The aim of the annual Folk Steps Conference is to stimulate interest in traditional folk music. Since 2010 the conference LENNIE GALLANT | PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND has offered an educational opportunity for audiences to explore a particular facet of folk music and understand its a regular at Folk Harbour, is making his ninth appearance at relevance to today. The program includes expert presentations the festival this year. He has performed with symphonies, and along with performance and discussion. The format is relaxed for troops in Afghanistan, has participated in tributes to the and includes performances as well as opportunities for fun, Titanic and Canada’s hockey heritage, and has even had his learning, and audience participation. For 2017, the Folk Steps music sent into space. theme is Something to Sing About — Celebrating Place in the Atlantic Region, and an engaging group of performers will be AMELIA CURRAN | NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR on hand to share the day. is a Juno Award winning songwriter, activist, and The Lunenburg Folk Harbour Society has commissioned mental health advocate from St. John’s, NL. Her music is a compilation of original music in honour of the 150th distinguished by her intricate and evocative lyrics – and has anniversary of Confederation. This album named ‘Nothing been compared to Leonard Cohen. Like Home’ is a celebration of Atlantic Canada — our home — from various regional and cultural perspectives. We are ROB LUTES | NEW BRUNSWICK proud to have the opportunity to help conference participants learn about and experience the heritage of Atlantic Canada. has recorded six albums and earned a reputation as one of All of the muscians who participated in this project will be Canada’s finest songwriters and roots performers. He last participating in the conference. brought his hook-laden songs and richly textured vocals to Folk Harbour in 2013.
HOST CHELSEA AMBER | NOVA SCOTIA BILL PLASKETT is known for bringing soul to the stage with passionate vocals, a Lifetime Friend of the Festival and one of the founders of uplifting lyrics, and grooving guitars. As a songwriter, her goal the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival, is the perfect host for is to bring hope and a sense of purpose to every audience. this year’s Folk Steps Conference that celebrates “place.”
KEYNOTE SPEAKER SHELLEY POSEN is a noted folklorist, as well as a songwriter, author, and performer of his own and traditional songs. His songs are Nothing Like Home, CDs widely recognized for their wit, craftsmanship, and their can be purchased at the profound effect on listeners. Folk Steps Conference, any merchandise tent, or on iTunes.
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 46 47 ALMA HOUSTON TALKS WORKSHOPS | SCHOOL OF FOLK ALMA HOUSTON TALKS WORKSHOPS FOR ALL AGES
These workshops are named in tribute to one of our founding VOCAL WORKSHOP: HARMONY members, Alma Houston. Alma’s passion for music and other artistic endeavours led her to work tirelessly providing FRIDAY, AUG 11 | ST. JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH opportunities for indigenous artists to celebrate their talents. 10:00 - 11:00 | GOODWILL DONATION These workshops honour Alma’s vision and that of all of Host: Pat Watson our founders. Artists: Red Moon Road
THE MEANING OF FOLK VOCAL WORKSHOP: HARMONY FRIDAY, AUG 11 | LUNENBURG SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FRIDAY, AUG 11 | ST. JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH 10:00 - 12:00 | FREE 11:00 - 12:00 | GOODWILL DONATION Host: Jeff Davis Host: Pat Watson Guest Speakers: David Myles, Rev. Robert B. Jones, Vishtèn Artists: The Once
WOMEN WHO INSPIRE ME DANCE WORKSHOP: SCOTTISH CELTIC SATURDAY, AUG 12 | LUNENBURG SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FRIDAY, AUG 11 | ST. JOHN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 10:00 - 12:00 | FREE 11:00 - 12:00 | GOODWILL DONATION Host: Jerri Southcott Host: Rebecca Jordan Guest Speakers: Dar Williams, Suzie Vinnick, Chelsea Amber Artists: Cassie and Maggie
DANCE WORKSHOP: IRISH CELTIC SATURDAY, AUG 12 | ANGLICAN PARISH HALL 10:00 - 11:30 | GOODWILL DONATION Host: Rebecca Jordan Artists: Shannon Quinn
VOCAL WORKSHOP: GOSPEL SATURDAY, AUG 12 | ST. JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH 10:00 - 12:00 | GOODWILL DONATION Host: Louis Robitaille Artists: Rev. Robert B. Jones, Red Moon Road
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 48 49 SCHOOL OF FOLK | YOUTH WORKSHOPS ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING YOUTH WORKSHOPS ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING SPONSOR: ADAMS AND KNICKLE KEN MATHESON PROGRAM (KMP) YOUTH CHOIR FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY | BANDSTAND FRIDAY, AUG 11 | CENTRAL UNITED CHURCH HALL 2:00 - 4:30 | FREE 10:00 - 11:00 | FREE The Ken Matheson Program is dedicated to highlighting home- Host: Leslee Barry grown talent and features rising stars of all ages from the Artists: Rosie and the Riveters, Leslee Barry area and across Nova Scotia. Participants are invited to perform with their instructors at the The program was created in 2005 and is named for Ken Lunenburg Heritage Society Bandstand on Friday at 1:30. Matheson who passed away in 1999. Ken was Chair of the festival for its first ten years, and he was a beloved community member, teacher, musician and great promoter of YOUTH CHOIR young area musicians. FRIDAY, AUG 11 | CENTRAL UNITED CHURCH HALL 11:00 - 12:00 | FREE Host: Leslee Barry CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING Artists: Chelsea Amber, Leslee Barry FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY | BANDSTAND Participants are invited to perform with their instructors at the 1:00 - 4:30 | FREE Lunenburg Heritage Society Bandstand on Friday at 2:00. The Bandstand hill is a great place for families to take in a wonderful blend of music on the Lunenburg Heritage Society Bandstand while their children keep busy. There is VAL MEISTER’S YOUNG FIDDLERS a playground on this site and the South Shore Public Library SATURDAY, AUG 12 | CENTRAL UNITED CHURCH HALL will have a tent set up for parents to share books with their 10:00 - 12:00 | FREE children. Please note that child care is NOT provided on this Host: Eilidh Buchanan site, and parents are responsible for their children at all times. Artists: Cassie and Maggie, Eilidh & Paul Bachanan The Val Meister Young Fiddlers workshop is a long-standing BABY-FRIENDLY INITIATIVES tradition of the festival and is named for Lifetime Friend of the THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY Festival, Val Meister. Val worked at many different tasks during FOLK HARBOUR OFFFICE | 9:00 - 5:00 her years associated with the festival and was a signer of the In partnership with Lunenburg and Queens Baby-Friendly original articles of incorporation. We continue to honour her Initiative Committee, the Folk Harbour office is a designated each year by presenting this workshop for young fiddlers. area for mothers who may prefer privacy while caring for Local music instructors are joined each year by guest their infants. professionals and provide instruction for all levels of accomplishment. Even those who don’t play the fiddle can receive instruction on techniques for accompanists. Participants are invited to perform with their instructors at the Lunenburg Heritage Society Bandstand on Saturday afternoon of the festival. LOST ITEMS, INFORMATION, AND BASIC FIRST AID
Visit the Folk Harbour Office: 9am – 8pm 125 Montague Street (902) 634-3180 | www.folkharbour.com 2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 50 TICKET INFO TICKET INFO
FESTIVAL PASS | AUG 10-13 One admission to the entire weekend including: any of the paid venues and concerts, plus the Folk Steps Conference on Thursday. Not including the Late Night Stage. $145 - Adult | $72.50 - 25 and Under
FOLK STEPS CONFERENCE | AUG 10 One admission to the all-day conference on Something to Sing — About Celebrating Place in the Atlantic Region, featuring: speakers, stories, and songs, from. $40 - Adult | $20 - 25 and Under
FULL DAY PASS | AUG 10-13 One-day admission to all concerts and workshops, including the evening Main Stage. Thursday pass includes the Folk Steps Conference. Not including the Late Night Stage. $75 - Adult | $37.50 - 25 and Under
MORNING WORKSHOP | AUG 10-11 Dance, vocal, and youth workshops or Alma Houston Talks on Friday and Saturday. GOODWILL DONATION
AFTERNOON TICKET | AUG 11-13 One admission to all afternoon venues and sessions. Each day sold separately. $40 - Adult | $20 - 25 and Under
MAIN STAGE | AUG 10-13 Admission to one evening Main Stage concert. $40 - Adult | $20 - 25 and Under
LATE NIGHT STAGE | AUG 10-11 One admission to one concert at the Late Night Stage. This event is 19+. $15 Cash at the door | Cash bar
SUNDAY MORNING GOSPEL CONCERT | AUG 13 One admission to the Sunday morning concert at the Main Stage. Food Bank donations are accepted. $15 - Adult | $7.50 - 25 and Under
DAILY BANDSTAND CONCERTS | AUG 10-13 Outdoor stage with adjacent children’s area at the Lunenburg Heritage Society Bandstand. FREE ADMISSION
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE 52 BOX OFFICE BOX OFFICE WHERE AND HOW TO GET TICKETS Online: Ticketpro.ca ($1 surcharge) Phone: 1-888-311-9090 Ticketpro ($1 surcharge) In Person: Any Ticketpro location as listed on their website Early Tickets: Folk Harbour Office | 125 Montague Street During Festival:Festival Box Office | 6 King Street
ACCEPTED METHODS OF PAYMENT Online and Phone: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Interac Online Ticketpro Outlets: Cash, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Debit Folk Harbour Office:Cash, Visa, MasterCard and Debit
BOX OFFICE HOURS During the Festival, Box Office hours at 6 King Street are 9am until 5pm daily. The Main Stage Box Office on Blockhouse Hill opens at 5:30pm daily.
During the Festival, online and telephone sales are cut off each day at 7am for Full Day Passes and 1pm for evening tickets.
After these times, if seating is available, tickets can be purchased at the Festival Box Office or the Main Stage Box Office.
THE FINE PRINT During the festival, tickets can only be picked up at the Box Office, not the Folk Harbour Office.
All ticket sales are final and non-refundable, unless the event is cancelled by the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Society. Partial refunds for a Full Day Pass or a Festival Pass are not permitted.
Lunenburg Folk Harbour Society members can receive a 10% discount by entering their membership number at checkout. If you’d like to become a member ask the Box Office for details.
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE 54 55 VENDORS CONCESSION VENDORS CONCESSIONS
THE GRILL AND MORE You can find our merchandise and concessions tent adjacent Offerings: Sausages, burgers, pulled pork, assorted to the Lunenburg Opera House during the afternoon and sandwiches, hot dogs, snack plates, and drinks. adjacent to the Main Stage during the evening concerts. This year we have a bunch of newly branded swag for you to take home — our colourful sails look good on everyone! ABUNDANCE ICE-POPS Gourmet ice-pops handmade with organic Offerings: Get a membership before buying your items and receive 10% off all whole foods and water kefir. A large variety of branded merchandise! flavours including; strawberry + basil, mango + mint, berries + lime, and banana + coconut cream! • Branded shirts: long and short sleeved • Branded hoodies, sunglasses, tote bags, and mugs LAUGHING WHALE COFFEE • Water bottles Offerings: coffee, tea, espresso, and more. • Nothing Like Home CD LOBSTER JO'S Offerings: lobster rolls, lobster sandwiches, lobster chowder, lobster mac-n-cheese, and vegan & gluten free salad (with option to add lobster).
BENNY'S ICE CREAM Offerings:Ice cream & related products; sundaes, milkshakes, ice cream sandwiches.
BEPPIE’S 2017 ANNUAL Offerings: Fish & Chips, pulled pork, ribbon fries, hamburgers, hot dogs, poutine, deep fried mushrooms, FOLK HARBOUR RAFFLE deep fried pickles, onion rings. 50/50 DRAW WITH FOUR GREAT PRIZES LIL’ ORBIT DONUT Buy them at the Main Stage tent, on Thursday Offerings: Mini Donuts that have a variety of sugar Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. Purchase coatings: cinnamon, chocolate, maple, coconut, from a volunteer wearing a blue apron. pumpkin, and lemon. TICKET PRICES: 1 FOR $3, 4 F0R $10, 10 FOR $20
First Prize: 25% of total ticket sales. Second Prize: 15% of total ticket sales. Third Prize: 10% of total ticket sales Fourth Prize: Full set of 2017 performer CDs
Prizes will be drawn August 14, 2017 and winners will be notified by telephone or email. The remaining proceeds go to support the year round activities of the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Society.
50/50 DRAW
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 57 GREENING EVENT GREENING
The Festival aims to be a green event in keeping with the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Society Environmental Stewardship Policy to lessen festival waste and to promote public water services. The following are two ways you can help practice event greening:
Use your travel mug or water bottle Refill your own containers at town water refill stations or; look for the “Blue W,” pictured below, at participating shops, or by checking the online map at www.bluew.org, or looking for the Blue W decal in shop windows. Water bottles can be purchased at Folk Harbour Concessions.
Help us reduce and separate solid waste into 3 collection streams: 1. Compost — food waste; biodegradable plates, cups, cutlery; soiled paper 2. Recyclables — glass, plastics, metal containers 3. Garbage “Bins of Last Resort” — non-recyclables and non-organic materials have to go to the landfill.
If you have questions, Green Team volunteers will be on-hand to help. We’d also like to express our appreciation to our vendors who do their part by offering biodegradable plates, cups, cutlery, and offer a variety of drinks other than bottled water.
This year our Greening Committee would like to give special thanks to:
• Blue W Program • Divert Nova Scotia • Bluenose Coastal Action • Fisheries Museum of the Foundation Atlantic • Buck’s Home Building Centre • Lunenburg Board of Trade • Corkum’s Recycling • Region 6 Solid Waste • Councilor John McGee, Management Lunenburg • The Water Market
WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 58 59 IN MEMORY VOLUNTEERS
LUNENBURG FOLK HARBOUR SOCIETY 2017
THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT HAPPEN We do not earn a profit; all the revenue we collect is directed into activities to further folk music and to develop our community. Our entire senior leadership team (a working IN MEMORY OF MARY LANDIS Board of Directors) is made up of volunteers. We maintain a small, part-time staff to support financial, administrative, and compliance activities. The Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival lost one of its best with the too early passing of Mary Landis in November 2016. This picture of Mary, taken at last year’s festival, tells her story. This was Mary, full of fun, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS selling t-shirts and merchandise, greeting friends old and new, at the President: Deborah Watring-Ellis same time dealing with the devastating news that this would be her Vice President: Maggie Ostler last Festival. Treasurer: Carl Martin Secretary: Kerry South When Mary took on a job, such as developing the menus, organizing Proxy for Past President: Ruth Anne Whicher and cooking food for the Festival’s after hours parties, or revamping the concessions area, or seeking out new artists to design Festival clothing and materials, she took it on! Some years she did these jobs DIRECTORS simultaneously, going non-stop all weekend long, putting out fires and Adam Bower, Chris Anderson, Louis Robitaille, Kelly Bent, still finding the energy to dance to the music as often as she could. Mary DIllon, Anna Clair MacAdam, Peter Glenister, Heather Joudrey, Tracy Cochrane Mary and her husband, Roy, were honoured as Lifetime Friends of the Festival in 2015. It was a well-deserved honour for them both. OFFICE STAFF Mary was a loyal, supportive, and caring friend who could see what was needed and how to make it happen, whatever the challenge. She Accounting: Marilyn Zinowki tackled them all head-on and always, always, with a ready smile and Logistics Coordinator: Drew McCarthy an unerring ability to find humour in any situation. Communications Coordinator: Jennifer Bliss Contracts and Administration: Mary O’Hara She is here with us this year, behind the scenes somewhere just outside our vision, still laughing and dancing to the music.
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 60 61 VOLUNTEERS VOLUNTEERS
SITE COMMITTEES Interim Co-Chair: Bill Deveau & Dave Alexander with help The Festival would not happen without volunteers and from Roy Landis & Marilyn Keddy donors. Dozens of volunteers give their time year-round Licenses, Permits & Food Vendor Coordinator: Lisa Purcell to help entertain, educate, and enrich our community, and Parking Coordinators: Deb Watring-Ellis & Drew McCarthy the team swells to hundreds leading up to and during the Safety and Security: Willi Wahl, Dana Allen & Michael Pittman Festival. At the time of this printing, it is virtually impossible Main Stage Set Up and Tear Down: Barry Gradwohl, Barry to list everyone who contributed to this year’s festival. We Wootten, Bob Durovich, Graeme Durovich, Colyer Durovich, apologize, but to all who have played a part — THANK YOU! Drew Moore, Barry Olivella, Dan Snyder, Joan Neely, Kevin Broderick, Patrick South, Duncan Kroll, Paul MacLellan & Jake Marion COMMUNITY OUTREACH Main Stage House and Stage Management: Ron Word, Keegan Durovich, Scott Young & David Cashin Sunday Bandstand Coordinator: Drew McCarthy with help Daytime House and Stage Management: Christine Buchart, from Alexander Grabowski, Harry Pearse Kirk Whidden, Frank Bemben, Chris Andrews, Chris Pye, Barry Education Co-Chairs: Mary Dillion & Louis Robitaille Gradwohl, Bob Durovich, Dylan Haines, Chip Veinotte, Graeme Youth Chair: Angela Churchill Durovich & Michael Bastarache Greening Chair: Charlene Morton After Hours: Emma May Late Night: Paul Baskett MARKETING AND PUBLICITY Marketing and Communications Chair: Jay Hiltz with help from Mary Dillion & Jennifer Bliss Public Relations Coordinator: Kelly Bent Publicity Coordinator: Alexander Grabowski with help from Lisa Purcell, Harry Pearse & Barbara Smith Folk Lines Coordinator: Heather Pentz
PERFORMER AND VOLUNTEER SERVICES Billeting Co-Chairs: Ruth Anne & John Whicher with help from Rene Stewart, Barb Olivella & Mary O’Hara Volunteer Committee Co-Chairs: Tracy Cochrane & Heather Joudry Hospitality Co-Chairs: Kerry South & Adam Bower Performer Transportation Coordinator: James Hirtle In-Town Shuttle Services Coordinator: Steve Andrews
PROGRAM Chair: Louis Robitaille with help from Deborah Trask, Angela Churchill & Maggie Ostler
SALES AND FUNDRAISING Fundraising Chair: Deb Watring-Ellis with help from Lois MacInnis, Keith MacInnis, David Penney & Drew McCarthy Silent Auction and Raffle Coordinators: John Garroway & Maureen Hope Membership Co-Chairs: Peter Glenister & Carl Martin Box Office Interim Chair:Maggie Ostler with help from Julie Lohnes-Cashin, Fern Jordan & Mary O’Hara Concessions Co-Chairs: Lisa Purcell & Kat Watring-Ellis
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 62 63 VOLUNTEERS FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL BILLETING LIFETIME FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL
One thing that makes the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival unique is the fact that Over the years, the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Society has named key founding and contributing volunteers, ‘Lifetime Friends of the Festival,’ all of who have our deep performers stay in homes in the community, instead of hotels. Over 50 homes have been appreciation for our long-term success. The 2017 Lifetime Friends of the Festival will be opened to host our performers this year. The hosts provide accommodation, food, and annouced on the Festival Main Stage. often transportation. This is a huge commitment and a big part of making our festival a unique experience for all of us. Thank you to the following people for billeting our 2001: Bill Plaskett 2008: Bev Lamb performers this year. 2001: Clary Croft 2009: Stephen Pedersen 2001: Jeff Davis 2010: John Houston 2002: Gordon Stobbe 2012: Shelah Allen Tim & Terri Davies Jenny Burwell 2003: Earl Meister & Val Meister 2015: Greg Simm Wendy Dean Smugglers Cove Inn 2003: Don Osburn & Anna Osburn 2015: Mary Landis & Roy Landis Leslie & Velvet Eliuk Boscawen Inn 2005: Chris Anderson 2016: Ron Word Anne Weeks Lunenburg Arms Hotel Claudette & Bryon Rogers Charlie & Linda Guy FRIENDS OF FOLK HARBOUR Eunice & John Harker Judith Carey & Gerry Rolfsen Approximately 10% of our funding comes from our Members and Friends. At the time of David Friendly & Maureen Moffatt Chris Norman printing, our list of Friends included the following; Trish & Chris Pye David & Alice Patrick Folk Harbour Champions (>$1000) Silver Friends ($100-199) Shelah Allen Cheryl Lamerson and Wil Brooks Louis Robitaille & Mary Dillon Peter Glenister Brenda & Earl Bachman John & Kathey Moore Pat McGowan & Dennis Carter Jill McGrath Barb & Barry Olivella Russell & Charlotte Smith Bill MacDonald John & Ruth Anne Whicher Mary-Lou & Garry Pye Elite Friends ($400-999) Heather Black Maureen Brown Angela Churchill & David Ellis Deborah Trask Anja Development Bronze Friends (<$99) Rosanna & Bob Higgins Chris & Annette Diller Bob Durovitch Nancy Wilson Peter Goforth & Ellen Wathen Frank & Jill Koczwara Bill Toner Anne Ryan Joan & Shane MacDougall Tom & Joanne Behr Maureen Moffatt Dr. Robert Murray Sue & Steve Oliver Joanne & Nick Jennery Olivella Family Shawn South John Garroway & Maureen Hope Fern Jordan Catherine Paget Gold Friends ($200-399) Deb Beers Martha & Elizabeth Kennedy Helen & Keith Lanthier Wayne & Mary Fulcher Peter Roe Rene & Kevin Stewart Wayne Grady Linda Roe Garry & Sheila Woodcock Maggie Ostler
2017 FESTIVAL GUIDE WWW.FOLKHARBOUR.COM 64 65 DONORS SPONSORS DONORS SPONSORS Amos Pewter Lunenburg Farmer’s Market PATRON ($15,000 +) Barbara Himmelman Lunenburg Foundry In 2015, TD donated $92.5 million (excluding in-kind) to Bay Tub-Hot Tubs Marilyn Delaquis community organizations across Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. Within Canada, our corporate giving increased to $62.9 Betty Meredith Photo Maureen Hope million, from $56.7 million in 2014 — representing 1.3% Birdsall Worthington Pottery Mosaic, Lunenburg of our pre-tax profits and exceeding Imagine Canada’s 1% Bluenose Golf Club Musique Royale benchmark. These donations supported more than 2,800 community organizations throughout the country. Boston Pizza No. 9 Café Brenda Cook Northern Sun GOVERNMENT Castle Building Supply Old Fish Factory Restaurant Canadian Heritage We salute the Government of Canada for Cathy Risser P’lovers, Mahone Bay recognizing the importance of preserving, developing, and sharing traditional and contemporary folk music in our country. Comfort & Joy Peter & Linda Roe Crescent Gold & Diamonds Petite Riviere Vineyard Service Canada provides funding for summer students to gain Dawn Alexander Printer’s Corner practical, on-the-job experience. Demonts Woodworking Rebecca’s Restaurant The Nova Scotia covernment is pleased to support programs Doreen Hart RIME Restaurant and initiatives that foster creative and sustainable economic Down Home Living Rofihe’s Men’s Wear development and the celebration of the province’s culture and heritage, which all lead to stronger, richer communities, and a Frank’s Corner Automotive Salt Shaker Deli vibrant province. Glen Bowen Works SaltBox Brewing Co Golf Central SeaMist Studio The Town of Lunenburg has been a supporter of the Folk Harbour Festival since the beginning, through both financial grants and Gordon Wright Shop on the Corner providing logistical support. They also support the Summer Gow’s Home Hardware Spa at ninety4 Concert Series. Have-a-Yarn Stan’s Dad and Lad Municipality of the District of Lunenburg is committed to working Heather Cameron Susan MacMillan with the community to maximize recreational opportunities for Himmelman’s Giftware Sweet Ride Cycling everyone — be it through programs, special events, facilities, Independent, Lunenburg The Hat Junkie parks, beaches, or trails. Joanne Cameron The Little Dinghy Diner Arts Nova Scotia is the provincial funding agency that provides Kate’s Sweet Indulgence The Nail Doctor support to professional artists and arts organizations, arts K&S Fashions Ltd The Ready Room education programs and a number of arts awards and prizes. Kitchen Witch The Tea Brewery FOUNDATIONS Lahave Bakery The Water Clinic Leanne Children’s Foundation assists children to reach their Laughing Whale Therapeutic Massage full potential, encourages them to reach for their dreams, and in Lexicon Books Town’s End Strings & Things striving to achieve these goals, to take nothing for granted. Lincoln Street Food Your Friend & Mine Pet Supplies Music Nova Scotia is a non-profit organization that has Linda’s Artwork Lucy Rhodenizer worked since 1989 with a mandate to encourage the creation, development, growth, and promotion of Nova Scotia’s music industry. Music Nova Scotia exists to grow and to nurture the Nova Scotia music industry.
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The SOCAN Foundation, founded in 1992, is dedicated to fostering musical creativity, and promoting a better understanding of the role of music creators in today’s society.
SUPPLIER SPONSORS The Chronicle Herald is the best source of local news in Nova Scotia, featuring breaking news, sports, entertainment, business, and national news.
Bay Ferries, Ltd. operates ferries in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.
Since our humble beginnings forty years ago, FMAV has experienced dramatic change from a one-client startup to a major audiovisual services company, helping some of the world’s leading organizations achieve their business objectives through the provision of event technology solutions and service.
With over 25 years of tenting experience, Commercial Tent Rentals and Sales is proud to be the largest tent rental company in the Maritimes. Not only do we supply top quality, clean tents for many events, but we also strive to maintain excellence in customer satisfaction.
CKBW is the Broadcaster for Nova Scotia’s South Shore playing an adult contemporary format at 98.1FM and country music at 100.7FM.
The Old Confidence LodgeStudio & Stage is a recording studio and performance venue located in a former Oddfellows Hall in Riverport, Nova Scotia.
TicketPro Inc. has been a leading supplier of ticketing solutions in Canada since 2003.
The Old Fish Factory and Icehouse Bar is located at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, and serves local seafood, pasta, and other delicious plates.
Subway Restaurants are a proud supporter of Folk Harbour. We know that it takes more than just good food to nourish people and to build vibrant communities. It starts with taking care of people, the heart and soul of the SUBWAY® experience.
Nestled in the heart of historic Lunenburg, Lunenburg Arms welcomes you to savour the sights of our seaside town as we set our focus on providing you with the exceptional customer service experience you deserve.
The Water Market is your source for purified water, wine kits and, home brewing supplies. They also make wine and beer on site, operate a self-service and full-service laundromat, dry cleaning drop-off, and a well-stocked self-service car wash.
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Keller Williams Select Realty full service real estate brokerage serving the South Shore of Nova Scotia.
The Boscawen Inn, a Queen Ann style mansion on the hillside, cannot be missed. Overlooking the Lunenburg Harbour and the Old Town below, the Boscawen is a special place to stay. Just 3 short blocks up from the docks and crowds, the Boscawen offers the best of both worlds.
VENUE SPONSORS ($5,000 +) High Liner Foods is the leading North American processor and marketer of value-added frozen seafood. High Liner has been a longtime supporter of the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival.
Farblack Ltd. has an eclectic portfolio of brands, that includes the Discord Gallery and Lunenburg Opera House, all striving to create unique value by making a difference in a different way.
VENUE SPONSORS ($2,500 +) Stelia North America specializes in the design, development and manufacture of advanced composite structures and assemblies for the aeronautic, defense, and space markets. They have a particularly strong focus on commercial aircrafts with products that include aircraft structural components and control surfaces. The Stelia North America team in Lunenburg consists of 375 plus personnel serving its customer base with experience in project management, engineering, design, development, testing, procurement, quality assurance and manufacturing.
Stellar Investments Inc. is a real estate development company with multiple prime commercial and residential properties around Lunenburg, as well as holdings representing two of the town’s stellar businesses: Mariner King Inn and Cilantro the Cooks Shop.
EVENT SPONSORS ($2,500 +) The Grand Banker features fresh, local cuisine with a creative twist, on the stunning Lunenburg waterfront! Paired to perfection with local wines and a large selection of craft brews!
For over 100 years, Kinley Drugs Co. has served the drug store needs of Lunenburg and surrounding areas including providing professional pharmacy services. Kinley Drugs is proud to support our community as a strong contributor to local arts, music, sports events, Fisherman’s Memorial Hospital, and homes for long term care.
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Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, located on the Lunenburg waterfront, is part of the Museum of Nova Scotia and is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year.
Lunenburg Walking Tours offers visitors to our UNESCO World Heritage Site town an educational and entertaining directed walk through history.
PERFORMER SPONSORS ($1,000 +) BMR Lunenburg Hardware prides themselves on providing the people of Lunenburg with quality hardware and marine supplies, and has provided personnel, vehicles, products, and cash contributions to the Festival for many years.
The Knot Pub is a friendly, relaxed, locally owned and operated pub where everyone is welcome.
Caico-Mae Clothiers is a unique boutique offering a memorable shopping experience! You will find fun fashions always on our clothes line!
Adams & Knickle has been an integral part of Lunenburg’s working waterfront since 1897. As Canada celebrates its 150th Birthday, we are fortunate to be in our 120th year of fishing. The company currently fishes for deep-sea scallops, and its trademark red buildings are a quintessential part of the Lunenburg landscape.
Smuggler’s Cove was founded in 2002 and is now one of Lunenburg’s biggest privately owned 4 star hotels.
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