Sunreturn

Jude, Jennifer, Anthony, and I had a great week of touring through Nova Scotia with a program of mostly medieval Christmas tunes and carols, presented by Musique Royale.

Scions Euro-Tour

In mid-October, Scions travelled to Denmark and Sweden for four shows supporting piper Brìghde Chaimbeul!

Pear Tree Album Launch Tour

Adrianna and I just wrapped up our album launch tour for The Pear Tree! Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the record and the season with us!

Scions Tour

To launch our new album, To Cry Out In The Wilderness, Scions went on tour this past week to Halifax, Sackville, Saint John, and Fredericton! Thank you to all the beautiful venues, opening bands, and audiences we visited with this week. The album is available on vinyl and as a digital download. Take a listen on bandcamp:

Pear Tree Christmas Tour Announced

Adrianna and I will be doing a five-stop tour to celebrate the release of The Pear Tree in December!

Thursday, December 5th - Riverport 

Old Confidence Lodge, 7pm 

Tickets $20 advance | $25 door 

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Saturday, December 7th - New Glasgow 

Trinity United Church, 7pm 

Tickets $20 | PWYC

tickettailor.com/events/liveatmerrytimemusicco/1453930 

Sunday, December 8th - Halifax 

St. Andrew’s Church, 3pm 

Tickets $20 | PWYC | kids free 

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Friday, December 13th - Annapolis Royal 

St. Luke’s Church, 7pm 

Tickets $20 | PWYC 

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Saturday, December 14th - Canning 

Ross Creek Annex, 7:30pm 

Tickets $15 advance | $20 at the door ($10 | $15 students)

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La Journée de la Harpe

I had a lovely time in Montreal this weekend at La Journée de la Harpe, a festival organized by La Société des Harpistes de Montréal. I presented a workshop and performed in a concert with the wonderful kora player Zal Sissokho, and took in some very cool workshops and performances throughout the day. Thank you to the harp community of Montreal for such a great day!

Pennybrook Row On Album Release Tour

This weekend I was very happy to be part of the launch of Pennybrook's long awaited album Row On! We played launch shows in Broad Cove, West LaHave, and Harbourville. The album is available on bandcamp: 

Canadian Folk Music Awards

Congratulations to the Bombadils who took home Vocal Group of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards in St. John's Newfoundland! I went up with them to play in their showcase at the Ship Pub and got to attend the awards ceremonies and have a blast in St. John's.

New Hermitage September Tour

New Hermitage returned last week from a whirlwind road trip to Peterborough, Kingston, and Guelph. We were delighted to be performing at Jethro's Bar, (h)EAR, and the Guelph Jazz Festival!

Bombadils August Tour

The Bombadils went on tour in August in Ontario and PEI - Parry Sound, Bobcaygeon, Perth, Toronto, Whitby, and Mont-Carmel!

New Hermitage June Tour

The New Hermitage tour through Ontario, the Yukon, and Alberta was delightful! Thank you to Canada Council for the tour support! 

Edmonton Jazz Festival at the Yardbird Suite

The view from the Dome, Dawson City, Yukon

Backstage at KIAC in Dawson City

The red tour van!

Wolfe Island Residency

New Hermitage spent seven days on Wolfe Island last week on a beautiful residency period of musical exploration with Joyful Joyful and Michael C. Duguay. Thanks to the Canada Council for funding this work and to the Hotel Wolfe Island for hosting the residency and two public performances. More to come from this collaboration later this year!

New Hermitage Halloween Tour

This year, New Hermitage took its annual silent film show on the road with generous support from SuddenlyListen! We had two showings of Nosferatu in Halifax, we did Faust in Charlottetown, and then we did Nosferatu again in Wolfville. The poster was created by the amazing Charvel Rappos.

Performances with Olivia Barrett

Over the past few weeks, I've been out west for some performances and recording with the wonderful fiddler Olivia Barrett, who I met at school in Limerick. Videos are coming soon of some of Olivia's latest compositions, arranged for fiddle and harp. We also had the chance to reunite with Lizzy Hewitt and are hoping to bring our trio out east for a tour in summer 2023!

Cameron Bandshell, Beacon Hill Park, Victoria

Garden Party, Sidney

The Old Schoolhouse Arts Centre, Qualicum Beach

Wedding, Greenbank Farm, Whidbey Island, USA

New Hermitage June Tour

New Hermitage has just returned from a week of touring and performances at four beautiful festivals, Full Circle, Suoni Per Il Popolo, Wolfe Island Garden Party, and Something Else!

Wolfe Island Garden Party

Suoni Per Il Popolo

Bombadils Tour

So happy to have been on the road for two awesome weeks of touring with the Bombadils! Many thanks to the very generous audiences and hosts in Lyndon, Randolph, Whallonsburg, Richmond, Montreal, Ottawa, Brooklyn, Rockport, and Portland.

photo by Linda Wei-Chun Polytope

New Hermitage Tour

Sunday night marked the end of a beautiful tour with New Hermitage. We performed in Chicoutimi, Ottawa, Montreal, LaHave, Fredericton, Wolfville, Halifax, and Sackville, in some great venues with many wonderful performers sharing the bill. Thanks to Andrew, India, and Ross for an amazing couple of weeks! ❤

TradicijaNova

This weekend, all the masters students in Irish Traditional Music and Dance from UL traveled to Serbia for the TradicijaNova Summit in Belgrade. The trip involved three amazing days in the city and a performance in the beautiful theatre space Atelje 212. We had the chance to catch a few other dance performances and events at the summit and to explore some historic parts of Belgrade.

Belgrade Fortress

the performers backstage

performance photo by Jelena Janković