Gigs

UPCOMING

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.

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

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

June 21: Port Dover Harbour Festival, Port Dover, Ontario.

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

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

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

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

PAST

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

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.