Gigs

UPcoming

June 11: 8 - 10 p.m. Concert forRoom 100, Alumni Hall, 121 St. Joseph Street. With James Cheechoo and family. Sponsored by U. of T. Celtic Studies programme as part of the conference: Irish and Scots Encounters with Indigenous Peoples. See http://arts.uoguelph.ca/riiss/program for more details. $20.

June 13: McMichael Gallery Family Sundays. Canadiana - songs and tunes, with TOm Leighton. 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. Free with admission to the Gallery.

June 18: Oli Birthday Bash, Hugh's Room. See www.hughsroom.com for more details

July 9-10: Northern Lights Festival Boreal, Sudbury Ontario.

July 14 - 18th: North Atlantic Fiddle Convention, Aberdeen, Scotland. Solo performances and with the Omeigweissi Ensemble.

July 20: Leith Folk Club, Edinburgh, Scotland.

August 10 - 12: Fiddle Stories in Garden River. Teaching program for kids and adults, through the Artists Renewal programme of Mariposa in the Schools.

September 2 - 5: Wales Fiddle Festival, Wales.

PAST 2010

Jan. 23: Guest soloist with the Stratford Symphony, World Premiere of Tamarack'er Down, by Anne Lederman, orchestrated by Martin Van de Ven

Feb. 12: With Njacko Backo at the Gladstone, Melody Bar, 7 - 10 p.m. No Cover.

Feb. 19 - 21: Orangeville Fiddle Weekend, with Karen Reed. Classes in tradtiional fiddleing. See www.fiddle.on.ca for Registration

Feb. 26: Harrambee at the Gladstone, an event to promote Aids awareness in Africa. With Njacko Backo, The ballroomn, 10:00 til late.

Feb. 28th: With Ian Bell - songs from his new CD: "My Pious Friends and Drunken COmpanions." With Geoff Summers and Denis Rondeau. The Flying CLoud Folk Club. 7:30 p.m. $20/Members $18.

March 17 - 19th: With EH?! (James Stephens, Emlyn Stam and Anne), Goderich FIddle Camp, Goderish ONtario. COncert, Thursday March 18th, Knox CHurch, Goderich.

March 20th: With Eh?! Legless Stocking: Venerate the Vernal, and evening of stories and music at the Butler's Pantry, 591 Markham Street, 7:30 p.m.

March 21: With Eh?!, Flyng Cloud FOlk Club, Tranzac CLub, 292 Brunswick Ave.

March 27th: With Tom Leighton, the Earth Hour Toronto Country Dance, St. Barnabus Church

May 6- 9: Frontier Fiddlers Jamboree, Norway House, Manitoba

May 29th: With Njacko Backo, Hamilton Art Gallery

PAST 2009

Jan. 24: Queen Charlotte Ball, Fort York, Toronto, with Michael Franklina nd Larry Lewis

Jan. 5-8: World Music for Strings Workshops at NOrth TOronto Secondary School

Feb. 13: School Show, and Dance, Tyendinaga, Ontario, with Tom Leighton and Bill Russell. For more info, contact Mariposa in the Schools, 416 - 462, 9400, or info@mariposaonline.ca

Feb. 19th: Urban Mermaid at the Tranzac. 9:00 p.m. With Brenna MacCrimmon and October Browne. For more info, contact Brenna MacCrimmon, brennamacc@gmail.com

Feb. 28: HAWP, house concert in Fergus, with Andy Webster and Jason Pfeiffer. For more info, contact ANdy Webster, wahwahwebster@hotmail.com

March 1: HAWP at the Flying Cloud Folk Club, 292 Brunswick St. Toronto, Urban Mermaid opening. 8:00 p.m. www.flyingcloudfolk.ca

MArch 7: Benefit COncert, St. John's Church, 288 Humberside Ave. 4-6 p.m. For more info, contact St. John's Church, 416 - 763 - 2393, or secretary@sjwt.ca

March 14: Njacko Backo and Kalimba Kalimba, John Elliott Theatre, 9 Church Street,Halton Hills (Georgetown). For more info, Phone: 905.877.3700, or Email: boxoffice@haltonhills.ca

March 18 - 21: Fiddle Camp n Goderich Ontario, with James Stephens and Emilyn Stam. For more info, contact Cappy Onn, capucineonn@hotmail.com

April 19th: Fiddle Workshops, Niagara Artist's Centre, St. Paul's Street. St. Catherine's, Ontario For more info and to register, contact, Karen Daniels, danieldaog@yahoo.com

May 2: Maynouth Celtic Fesitval, with HAWP (Andy Webster, Niamh Webster, Jason Pfeiffer, Kieran Myers), Maynouth Ontario. For more info, contact wildewood@nexicom.net

May 7 - 9: Frontier Fiddlers Jamboree, Duck Bay, Manitoba

June 3: Family Dance, Ward 9 Co-op Play School. 6:30 p.m. For more info, contactHeidi Larman 416 - 831 - 6251

June 19th: Njacko Backo Cd Release, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto

July 10/11: Saline Celtic Festival, Saline Michigan, with Eh?! (James Stephens and Emilyn Stam).

Aug. 1/2: Millrace Festival of Tradiitonal Music, with HAWP

Aug. 3- 7: Hockley Valley Fiddle and Stepdance Camp. www.fiddlecamp.ca

Aug. 14-16: Owen Sound FOlk Festival. with Tom Leighton

Aug. 17 - 22: Algoma Trad Music and Dance Camp, St. Joe's Island. For more info www.algomatrad.ca

Sept. 12: Toronto Country Dance, with Emilyn Stam

Nov. 6: Elora Centre for the Arts, with HAWP.

Nov. 7: Barrie Folk Festival, with HAWP

Nov. 8: Flying Cloud Folk Club, with HAWP

Nov. 13: McGinty's Cafe, Meaford, Ontario, with HAWP

NOv. 14: House Concert, Shakespeare, Ontario, with HAWP

Nov. 21: CD Release COncert with Ian Bell, for My Pios Friends and Drunken Companions, Old Town Hall, Waterford, Ontario

Dec. 6th: Flying CLoud Folk Club, with Urban Mermaid

2008: Highlights

Dec. 13: Riverdale Share Concert , at The Music Hall

Nov. 17: Njacko Backo at the Gladstone. Cameroon Music Night

Oct. 25: Fundraising Dance for Echo Women's Choir

Oct. 5: Harvest Festival, Colbourne Lodge, with Andy Hillhouse

Sept.: Owen Sound Celtic Festival, with HAWP

Aug. 8-10: La Grande Rencontre, Montreal. With Tom Leighton

Aug. 3 - 8: North Atlantic Fiddle COnvention, St. John's Newfoundland, with TOm Leighton and the Elder Youth Legacy Project.

July 11-13: Metis Arts Festival, Black Creek Village, Toronto. with the Elder Youth Legacy Project.

July 1: Canada Day, Harbourfront. 4:30 p.m. on the Toronto Star stage.

June 21: Port Dover Harbour Festival, Port Dover, Ontario, with Urban Mermaid (Brenna MacCrimmon and October Browne)

June 11-19: Fiddle Workshops and Performances in Inuvik, NWT.

May 14: Special Concert of Fiddle Stories: The Elder Youth Legacy Project, RCM Auditorium, Toronto. See Media page for more details on the Project.

April 20: Dare the Devil at Hugh's Room with Special Guests Aaron Solomon and Randy Morrison. See the Dare the Devil page for more details.

March 22: Toronto County Dance, with Tom Leighton.

Feb. 22 - 24: Winter Fiddle Weekend in Orangeville. With Matthew Johnston and Karen Reid.

Feb. 18/19th: Benefits for Oliver Schroer at Hugh's Room. Phone: 416 - 531 - 6604 for Reservations or online at he website.

Feb. 17th: A special workshop and concert of the tunes of Oliver Schroer. Hart House Music Room. Workshop - 1:00 - 3:30. Taught by Anne Lederman and Jaime RT. For instrumentalistis of all ages and levels. Cost: $25 Concert - 4:00 - 5:30. Anne and Jaime are joined by the talented young fiddlers of The Twisted String, all the way from British Columbia in a special concert for Oliver Schroer, currently battling leukemia. Cost: $15, or $10 with the Workshop Press Release

Feb. 16: Dance workshops and Community Dance at the Alderville First Nation. With Bill Russell and TOm Leighton

Jan. 28 - RCM Classes resume. Celtic - Canadian Fiddling, Beginner, Intermediate, Old TIme Canadian and Irish - see Teaching for details or contact Anne. For Registration, click here.

2007: Highlights

Dec. 14: White Pine Pictures, Christmas Party, with October Browne.

Dec. 7: Christmas Concert, Royal COnservatory of Music, World Music Centre.

Dec. 5: Fundraising Concert for the Elder Youth Legacy Project. Pattie Walker Studio. Gerrard St. East, Toronto. With Tom Leighton, October Browne, Laurel MacDOnald and Nicholas Delbaere-Sawhuk. Sponsored by the Metis Artists Collective.

Nov. 17: Acadian in Story and Song At the Butler's Pantry in Honest Ed's Village, 591 Markham. Concert of music and storytelling officially starts at 7:30pm but I will be playing a bit ahead of that, so come early!

Oct. 28: Dare the Devil rides again with Paul and Melika Lemelin and Sam Romijn. As always, 1:00 at Hugh's Room. Tunes are posted on the Dare the Devil page.

Sept. 30: Colbourne Lodge Harvest Festival with Ian Bell

Sept. 29: Dance in Tyendinaga with Bill Russell and Andy Hillhouse

Sept. 28: World on a String - a very special concert as part of the Small World Festival, with Rich Brown, Levon Ichkanian, Amir Koushkani, Jayme Stone, Mansa Sissoko, Aditya Verma and Debashis Sinha. A week of cross-cultural music-making, recorded for CBC Radio 2 for broadcast in the evening of Oct. 26th,  from 8 - 10 p.m

Sept. 15: Gaia's Groove - a celebration of mother Earth, the Design Centre, TD building. An improvised and shared world music celebration with a great bunch of guys - Gary Diggins (digeridoo, truympet, percussion), Gupreet Chana (drums), Ravi Naimpali (tabla), Joaquin Nunez Hildago (congas, percussion), Miles Raine (saxophone) and more..

Aug. 19-25: Algoma Trad Traditional Music Camp, St. Joe's Island. A magnificent week of music and dance under the direction of Julie Schryer and Pat O'Gorman.

Aug. 5-9: Hockley Valley Fiddle Camp, under the direction of Phil Howes and Debbie Herriot.

June 28 - July 1: Old Crow FIddle Festival, Old Crow, Yukon. This kicked off a month of recording and learning about aboriginal fiddle traditions in the north courtesy of the National Museum. I taught a wonderful group of kids for a week in Fort Providence with the Kole Crook Fiddle Association and Strings Across the Sky along with Jaime Rokeby-Thomas, Calvin Cairns, Rod Olstad, Bob Mumford and Trish Clair-Peck and then continued on my travels around Great Slave Lake, meeting fiddlers and hearing their stories.

June 19-21: Benefits for Oliver Schroer - Hugh's Room. 3 nights of wonderful music and support for a magnificent Cnaadian musician.

April/May: Tour of "Spirit Horse", Roseneath Theatre's Dora nominee - an adapation of the Irish movie "Into the West" from a First Nations perspective. I was priveleged to be composer and musician for this production, touring schools around Ontario and winding up at the Luminato Festival in June.

April 7th: FWD: Music - An evening of classical, folk, and world music. RCM Concert Hall. Featuring: Penelope Dale, Christopher Foley, Susan Gagnon, Brahm Goldhamer, John Graham, Alan Hetherington, Helen Jacob-Stein, Joel Katz, Anne Lederman, Wagner Petrilli, Karen Quinton, David Richter, Helen Russell, Margot Rydall, Stephen Satory, Donna Sherman, Christine Surman, George Thurgood, Jennifer Tung, Subhadra Vijaykumar, Alla Zacarelli, Monica Zerbe & Ivan Zillman.

Apr. 21: Acoustic Harvest Fundraiser A very special evening with over 20 musicians who have previously graced our Acoustic Harvest stage over the years. There will be Birthday cake, a Raffle, Door prizes...featuring Penny Lang, Caitlin Hanford, Nancy White, Dala, Liam Titcomb, David Newland, Ken Whiteley, Crabtree & Mills, Sweet Tyme, Terry Young & Sandra Swanell (Tanglefoot), Rob Ritchie (ex-Tanglefoot), Evalyn Parry, Noah Zacharin, Anne Lindsay, Jason Fowler, David Woodhead, Anne Lederman, James Gordon, Ian Tamblyn, Clela Errington, The Choir Girlz, Colin Stewart.

April 15: Dare the Devil with Lisa MacIsaac, James Stevens

March 30: LOKA with the Victoria College Chorus, Isab. el Bader Theater, University of Toronto. Excerpts from Scott MacMillan's Celtic Mass For the Sea

March 18th: Dare the Devil at Hugh's Room with Drew Jurecka and Tyler Beckett.

Saturday, Feb. 24: Get your dancing shoes on for the Toronto Country Dance, with Tom Leighton on keyboards, and Mike Jones, caller. At St. Barnabas Church Hall, 175 Hampton Ave.( Entrance via the glass doors to the Upper Hall - use the walkway north of the playground). 7:30 - 10:30. There is a basics class at 7:00. These events are hugely fun for everyone - no experience necessary. See www.tcdance.org for more details.

Friday, Jan. 26: Ceilidh at the Latvian House, 491 College Street, Toronto (on College - just west of Bathurst) from 8:00 - 12:00. With Loretto Reid and Kelly Hood. Contact Maureen O'Leary at moleary2001@rogers.com for more info. Beginners welcome.

Sunday/Monday, Jan. 28/29: Benefit for Marie-Lynn Hammond, Hugh's Room. I am part of the band. SOLD OUT< but there is an online auction and other ways to help. See www.marielynnhammond.com.

Tuesday, Jan. 30. Loretto Reid and I will be giving a concert/Demonstration at the new Four Seasons Centre For teh Performing Arts, Richard Bradshaw Ampitheatre, sponsored by the Royal COnservatory World Music Centre and the Canadian Opera Company. 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Free to the public. Corner of Queen and University Ave. See www.fourseasonscentre.ca for more details

Feb. 3: FiddleFern Dance; Owen Sound, with Tom Leighton. See www.fiddlefern.net for more info.

Feb. 9-10: Tom and Anne are off to GOlden B.C. to help out with a town pagenat and dance.

Feb 18: Dare the Devil with Karen Reed and Kyle Charron, with special guest Jake Charron as accompanist.