Category: Past Shows

The Ennis Sisters with Guest Opener Meredith Moon

Tickets available at Market Hall Box Office by calling (705) 749 1146 or visiting www.markethall.org

Tickets $40 incl. HST and fees

About the Ennis Sisters

For over 25 years, The Ennis Sisters have been connecting to audiences across the world. From arts centres in their home province of Newfoundland and Labrador to performing for International leaders and delegates at the 75th anniversary of D-Day on Juno Beach, their harmonies resonate with us all.

A Juno Award, multiple ECMA’s, Music Newfoundland & Labrador awards and a SOCAN for top grossing Canadian country song – along with endless accolades from fans and critics alike – tangible proof that they’ve tapped into something universal, beyond the notes on the page.

Flavoured by Celtic and traditional Newfoundland influences, Maureen, Karen and Teresa are known for their captivating sibling harmonies and their powerful, often humourous, storytelling. Their music offers a broad mix of original songs as well as uniquely interpreted tunes and ballads.

Live performance has been a staple of the Ennis’ experience, and continues to be. Proven road warriors since 1997, they gained underground notoriety before translating it into the global success they’ve become – and they aren’t finished yet.

The Ennis Sisters’ most recent album, On We Go, is a collection of original songs produced by Alan Doyle and was recorded in scenic Quidi Vidi Village, NL.

The Ennis Sisters have also established a successful Christmas tour, which will see them perform in some of Canada’s most beautiful theatres in Nov/Dec 2022.

http://www.theennissisters.com

About Meredith Moon

Meredith Moon has spent the last decade travelling her home of Canada, and the world, by multiple means, finding inspiration for her unique style of songs which are crafted in a true storyteller’s fashion. She has been described as a ‘gem’ among the Old-Time music scene for her unusual expression of the genre, combining influences of folk-punk with traditional Appalachian sound.

Besides playing traditional tunes often ‘non-traditionally’, Meredith presents a powerful voice and highly contemporary clawhammer banjo style. She is a multi-instrumentalist, incorporating finger-style guitar, piano and lap dulcimer, among other instruments, into her performances.

Along with an endorsement from Gold Tone Music Group and a recent recording deal with True North Records/Linus Entertainment, Meredith Moon has been a regular in the folk music and folk festival circuit for over a decade. In the last eight years, she has herself booked and toured Canada several times, along with Mexico, Central America, the UK and Europe. She released “Forest Far Away” in May of 2018, and will be releasing her second full-length album, “Constellations”, on March 31st, 2023.

https://www.meredithmoon.com/

Harry Manx

Tickets available at Market Hall Box Office by calling (705) 749 1146 or visiting www.markethall.org

Tickets $49 incl. HST and fees

About Harry Manx

Harry delivers his live show with a variety of stringed instruments including the Mohan Veena (Indian slide guitar), drums, guitars, banjo & harmonica.

Musically speaking “Harry lives where the depth of Indian music meets the deep groove of the Blues.”

Blues Artist of the Year seven times, Folk Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, six Juno nominations…..welcome to the Harry Zone.

His latest album is ‘Way Out East’ a compilation of his Indian music.

Downbeat Magazine said that “Manx’s real talent lies in creating a place where Blues and Indian Classical are a seamless fit”.

Billboard Magazine called Harry “Canada’s most expressive Blues player”.

www.harrymanx.com

Folk Under The Clock presents Bruce Cockburn 50th Anniversary Concert
(third attempt !)

Tickets at www.showplace.org and (705) 742 7469       $65/$60 plus service charges, hst

One of Canada’s finest artists, Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality and musical diversity.

The Ottawa – born artist has been honoured with 13 Juno Awards, an induction into both Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, as well as the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, and has been made an Officer of The Order of Canada.

His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock and worldbeat styles while travelling to far flung places as Guatemala, Mali, Mozambique and Nepal. His guitar playing, both acoustic and electric, has placed him in the company of the world’s top instrumentalists.

He has released 34 albums and sold more than 7 million albums. Bruce’s songs have been covered by many artists including : Jimmy Buffet, K.D.Lang, Barenaked Ladies, Hawksley Workman, Jerry Garcia , Elbow, Judy Collins, Chet Atkins, Blackie and The Rodeo Kings …etc.

This 50th Anniversary Concert will see Bruce play songs from each decade and will be sure to please all his fans old and new.

Lennie Gallant has released twelve albums of original songs which have won him a host of awards and nominations from the JUNOs, Les Prix Eloizes, and The East Coast Music Awards, including 2017 ECMA Entertainer of the Year. His double CD of the 22 songs from his multimedia hit production, Searching For Abegweit, which ran for 140 shows, also won him 2017 ECMA Folk Recording of the Year.

He was named Canadian Folk Artist of The Year for 2016 and his song Peter’s Dream was voted one of the Top Ten East Coast Songs of All Time.

A recipient of the Order of Canada, Lennie is an international touring artist, who has performed all over the continent, in Europe, for the troops in Afghanistan, and at the Olympics. His songs have been covered by numerous artists including Jimmy Buffett, The Rankins, and Measha Bruggergosman and have appeared in feature films and TV shows.

One of his albums even went up to the international space station with Canadian Astronaut Julie Payette (now the Governor General) for the crew to enjoy.

He is releasing his long awaited new studio album,Time Travel, this summer (August 31, 2018) and it features guest appearances by Jenn Grant, Rose Cousins, Mary Jane Lamond, The Atlantic String Machine and The Fretless.

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Harry Manx will be joined by Steve Marriner (lead singer, harmonica, and guitar for MonkeyJunk). Harry and Steve have just recorded a new album together called “Hell Bent for Heaven” (to be released soon).

HARRY MANX has spent years fusing eastern musical traditions with the blues, switching effortlessly between conventional guitars, harmonica, and banjo and the decidedly different Mohan Veena, a 20-stringed instrument invented by Manx’ Indian mentor Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. Manx is often referred to as the “Mysticssippi” Blues Man, because of his expertise in melding both East and West music together and therefore, “creating musical short stories that wed the Blues with the depth of classical Indian ragas”.

Over the last 10 years, Harry Manx released 11 Albums and has garnered a room full of awards including, seven Maple Blues Awards, six Juno nominations, the Canadian Folk Award in 2005 for Best Solo Artist and won CBC Radio’s “Great Canadian Blues Award” in 2007. His most recent accomplishment was receiving yet another Juno Nomination for “Blues Album of the Year”, for his release, “Bread and Buddha” in 2010.

www.harrymanx.com

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Folk Under the Clock & The Market Hall present:

Newfoundland’s, The Once, return after a sold out Christmas concert last year, this time to promote and showcase their new album Time Enough.

The trio consists of Geraldine Hollett (lead vocals), Phil Churchill (vocals, guitars, kick drum) Andrew Dale (vocals, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki).

On this their fourth studio album, The Once offer some of the most vulnerable and honest material of their career. They stay true to the root strength of their harmony driven sound, while extending the borders into fresh yet familiar territory.

They craft a sonically understated, but emotionally fulsome sound that accomplishes what they’ve always done so well: stun listeners with what Amelia Curran calls, “Perfect vocal harmonies, thick enough to stand on”.

Peterborough folks love this Newfoundland band and always look forward to hearing a new album!

www.theonce.ca

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Folk Under the Clock & The Market Hall present:

Newfoundland’s, The Once, return after a sold out Christmas concert last year, this time to promote and showcase their new album Time Enough.

The trio consists of Geraldine Hollett (lead vocals), Phil Churchill (vocals, guitars, kick drum) Andrew Dale (vocals, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki).

On this their fourth studio album, The Once offer some of the most vulnerable and honest material of their career. They stay true to the root strength of their harmony driven sound, while extending the borders into fresh yet familiar territory.

They craft a sonically understated, but emotionally fulsome sound that accomplishes what they’ve always done so well: stun listeners with what Amelia Curran calls, “Perfect vocal harmonies, thick enough to stand on”.

Peterborough folks love this Newfoundland band and always look forward to hearing a new album!

www.theonce.ca

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The Young ‘Uns – From the Teesside area in the northeast of England comes one Britain’s best loved folk trios. Winner of the 2018 BBC 2 Folk Awards for the Album of The Year for Strangers.

Sean Cooney, Michael Hughes and David Eagle deliver “their irresistible mixture of quick-fire banter, potent social commentaries, and harmonies to die for,” says Colin Irwin of Penguin Eggs magazine.

They have won over large audiences at Vancouver, Mariposa, Canmore and Calgary Folk Festivals in the past couple of years and are huge in the UK.

Sean Cooney wrote all the songs from Strangers, such as the Hartlepool Pedlar, a tale of Michael Marks, an Eastern European Jewish refugee who arrived in the northeast of England and went on to set up the Marks & Spencer store. Ghafoor’s Bus talks of the humanitarian effort by a local man who converts a bus into a travelling kitchen to feed refugees and migrants.

Don’t miss this trio. They will make you laugh and cry with their songs about people in our world today…absolutely brilliant!

www.theyounguns.co.uk

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THE ICESTORM REDEMPTION CONCERT

If you had purchased tickets to the April 15 show, please bring them with you.

JAMES KEELAGHAN has been called “Canada’s finest singer-songwriter” by one of the most respected and lauded music critics/historians, Dave Marsh. Armed with a songbook that has enthralled audiences around the world, Keelaghan’s life as an artist is one that is a perpetual journey on so many levels.

He has written some timeless originals like Fires of Calais, Cold Missouri Waters, Jenny Bryce,
Hillcrest Mines and Kiri’s Piano. His masterful storytelling, over the course of nine recordings, and his distinctive voice have been part of the bedrock of his success, earning him his share of awards and nominations.

He says, “To go along with a lifelong accumulation of influences, there have been these opportunities to work with equals, whether it be Oliver Schroer, Hugh McMillan or Oscar Lopez”…and Jez Lowe.

www.keelaghan.com

TONY McMANUS has come to be recognized throughout the world as the leading guitarist in Celtic Music, while a master in many other styles.

Self taught from childhood, initially through listening to the family record collection, the session scene in Glasgow and Edinburgh provided the springboard for gigs around Scotland. The release of Ceol More in 2002 was when Tony’s stature as a world class musician reached a new level and was the Critics Album of the Year in Acoustic Guitar Magazine. He is invited annually to the Chet Atkins Festival in Nashville and has appeared at prestigious guitar festivals around the world. He also plays with the quartet Men of Steel (Dan Crary, Beppe Gambetta and Don Ross).

He is in great demand as a studio musician, having contributed to over 60 albums. His 2009 release, The Maker’s Mark, saw him showcase 15 of the finest luthier built guitars available. The following year he was invited to contribute music to the soundtrack of Oscar winning director Neil Jordan’s film Ondine, starring Colin Farrell. He has released several instructional DVD’s and his latest album, Mysterious Boundaries, has been lauded as “a masterpiece” (John Renbourn).

www.tonymcmanus.com

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